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"gatt" wrote:

"Gig601XLBuilder" wrote in message
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I see many boats in the photos. The area had not been cleared.

Yes it has.

I have a difficult time believing that, with the entire city of San
Francisco looking on and the water teeming with USCG and other vessels, that
the Blue Angels simply said "Aw, who cares if it's illegal? Do it anyway."
...with absolutely zero documented repercussion.

An accident under those circumstances would end the Angels. They do not
have a recorded history of behaving in such a way.

Indeed not. This is a show that I've watched for years, and that's done
with, well, military precision, over the city itself as well as over the
Bay. The consequences of getting anything more than trivially wrong when
doing low-level aerobatics over a very crowded city don't bear thinking
about....

Oh, and the noise is incredible -- I used to work near Fishermans Wharf,
and the rehearsals would always set off car alarms in the area around
us. You always know whan it's Fleet Week... Cool!

As for the images in question, I haven't a clue -- I'm typically on dry
land with only my bare eyes to watch with, and I don't remember them
doing that particular maneuver this year. But then I wouldn't have seen
it anyway from where I was.

Hamish