Yeah, that was a bummer!! There was a delay of show of course. But with
the parallel runway the Skytypers could have performed safely. After all,
they did it on the other runway the day before when the B-1B was blocking
the same runway as the Super Hornet. It just would have meant keeping the
Blue Angels on the payroll a little longer this year. Now it's done and
they are in the transition mode, breaking in the new guys. (Very impressive
change of command ceremony here yesterday.)

Like I said, I was in the line for the porta potty (is that a mobile loo,
Dave?) when he blew the tire. My friends said he did a 270 spin and the
aircraft ended up backing off the runway into the soft turf. Reporters who
gravitated to that end of the runway got excited when the fire truck went
out to put out the fire. We had to explain to them the fire wasn't from the
aircraft but was from the Jet Truck which had performed just a tad earlier.
The grass was smoldering and starting to smoke. So, they sprayed it a
little. Made for an impressive but entirely out of context foto, Tom


"adelsonsl" wrote in message
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MY FRIEND WHO FLIES FOR THE GEICO SKYTYPERS WERE NEXT IN LINE TO FLY WHEN
THIS HAPPENED. THEY WERE CANCELED BUT THE BLUE ANGELS WENT UP.

--
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
shouting
"...Holy ****...what a ride!"

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All my friends were strangers once........some of them are still pretty
strange