The U.S. Navy Blue Angles will make a pass downtown and up the St. Johns River today, Saturday and Sunday around 3 p.m. each day! Special thanks to NS Mayport for making this happen! Visit www.makeascenedowntown.com for complete information on all Week of Valor activities happening downtown and at the beaches!
WOW, now if we can just get 100 or so Navy planes to fly over the Vet Day fest. This Blue Angels flyover is too cool, get your cameras out boys and girls, opportunity's for some sort of photo prize I'm sure... "Skyline With Angels."
OCKLAWAHA
There will be a flyover at the beginning of the Veterans Day Parade at 11:01 a.m. on Wednesday, November 11.
Hope the whole celebration isn't washed out with the projected Tropical Storm. Any contingency plans in case this thing heads for us??
OCKLAWAHA
Quote from: Ocklawaha on November 06, 2009, 06:59:35 PM
Hope the whole celebration isn't washed out with the projected Tropical Storm. Any contingency plans in case this thing heads for us??
Ock, I wouldn't be too worried. NWS shows no effects through the weekend on their current forecast and the NHC shows less than 10% probability over the next five days.(http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT11/refresh/AL1109_PROB34_F120_sm2+gif/204515.gif)
At the earliest, we would see affects by Tuesday. So, no worries.
Donna, Dora, Camile, Andrew... all four!
Northridge Earthquake, Silmar Earthquake, Landers 7.4 Earthquake, Colombia Earthquake*...all four!
Mount St. Helens (Boring Oregon), Mount Ruiz* Colombia...two volcanos
May 3 Tornado swarm 1999 F-5, Mulhall Tornado F-4, Watonga Tornado F-4...all three
...and your telling ME it won't rain, you know, I REALLY hope your right!
OCKLAWAHA
Uh, guys and gals, Veteran's Day is WEDNESDAY, so if Ida starts raining on our parade Tuesday, it may ... well ... rain on our parade.
We don't like to say the "R" word in special events.
Saw the Blue Angels at the beach yesterday, was waaaaaay cool. B2 Bomber flyover was pretty cool as well.
I saw the Angels fly over downtown yesterday but it disappointed because they flew high and south of the South Bank, not low and down the center of the river as I hoped for. A Navy helicopter did do a nice demo of a search and rescue pull from the water in front of the Landing. Impressive.
The B-2 stealth bomber did the flyover for the Jags game today. Yes, it's an amazing plane unlike any other. Hard to believe it actually can fly. I think it was a coincidence, but the B-2 is based in Missouri and we were playing Kansas City. Was thinking the B-2 may have been there to help the Chiefs "impress" the Jags. ;D
Thought the Angels might circle the game on the way to the beach at about 3 PM but we never saw them. That, with the B-2 would have made this Jags game one to remember regardless of what happened on the field. ;)
from wikipedia:
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the stealth bomber flew over the stadium today for the Jags game.
wow.
takes my breath away everytime.
it looks out of this world, literally, and very intimidating.
100% impressive in everyway.
Jags game flyover 11/8/2009
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I still can't believe it is physically possible for that thing to fly at all. I wonder if there is some sort of alien thecnology in there?
Still, VERY VERY VERY cool!!! I had a great time at the beach but had to leave before the Angels flew.
I agree with STJR, the blue angels flyover was weak! The rescue helicopter, chinook, and police helicopter were all around the downtown air space, so that may have forced them to fly further south, but it was still weak. The chinook, stealth bomber, and the rescue demo were all amazing.
I loved all of the military activities at yesterday's game.
Went to the beach Saturday, so we saw the F-16 and other jets with the Blue Angels, it was best to see them at the beach. Way cool.
Quote from: Jason on November 09, 2009, 09:45:54 AM
I still can't believe it is physically possible for that thing to fly at all. I wonder if there is some sort of alien thecnology in there?.................
It is called a computer. The computer does the minute adjustments to "install" inherent stability the flying wing does not physically have. This makes it possible to fly the thing. The basic flying wing was pioneered in the 50's but they didn't have the fly by wire control systems to make it practical.
Quote from: Jason on November 09, 2009, 09:45:54 AM
I still can't believe it is physically possible for that thing to fly at all. I wonder if there is some sort of alien thecnology in there?
Still, VERY VERY VERY cool!!! I had a great time at the beach but had to leave before the Angels flew.
It was based off the German flying wing from WWII that had the same exact shape for a bomber, only it had props not jet powered.
The whole thing is a big wing, wing = lift :P
Although would be hard to fly without the computers in it that make it managable and do all the little corrections needed that humans couldnt do all at the same time to keep it flyin
Wow, a hard drive crash in the plane computer ='s a crash of the plane.
Our dependency on computers is scary. Last night 60 Minutes did a whole story on how vulnerable our society is to hackers taking control of computers. They even showed a video of an electrical generator self destructing itself after its control system was hacked. They pointed out that our generators are now made overseas, that it would take months to get a new one, and, if widespread, wide swaths of the electric supply could be quickly disabled.
Another example was how an entire oil refinery could be destroyed remotely by shutting down a recirculating pump and overriding a limit switch thus over-heating oil igniting a catastrophic explosion.
Even more vulnerable, our electric grid and financial systems.
No need for a war, the Chinese have downloaded bugs into all these systems, or so they think. Just waiting for further instructions.
I think I've watched about every TLC, NOVA, Discovery, etc. episode on the stealth bomber imaginable and I'm still floored it flys as well as it does. It looks like it should be thrown like a boomerang or flip end over end. And yes, if there were a failure of the computer systems it would be hard to keep it in the air. Now the stealth fighter, similar but different, actually looks like it is more than capable for flight and, although fly-by-wire, can still be piloted manually.
StJr, I watched the 60 minutes episode as well. Very erie stuff. But rest assured that we (Americans) are likely much more knowledgeable about other countries computer networks than they are ours.