Self Isolating is like being back in the navy

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19041805
These are the Blue Angles of my youth! When i built the model, it was 4 of the same A4's and a stand. ( A little repetitive )

I thought the Blue Angels of your youth would be flying biplanes.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #19041846
I thought the Blue Angels of your youth would be flying biplanes.

He was there with the Wrights

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #19041680
Did either of you guys get to photograph the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds?

Interesting film of Hal Holbrook.

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19041745
I was stationed in Pensacola for 2 years and that is the home base of the Blue Angels, would see them several times a year, so often that often we wouldn't go out to see them. The sad thing is that I was on the funeral detail when we had to bury one the Blue Angels after a bad crash with the Phantoms, they switched back to the A4 Skyhawks after that.

Most of my slides are "somewhere" the few I have are really poor copies but here is one anyway, from the old days (mid 70's) with no AF or auto ISO

What Jeff said. I saw the T-birds a couple of times at airshows but if i was shooting, i was shooting everything else. if i wasnt shooting i was either a) manning a refreshment stand for a small cut of the days take for our unit b) in my reenactment group or c) doing Cop augmentee duty (to get out of dealing with the crowd of people there to see the planes...

Jeff, don't know if you seen this. The official US Navy flickr page. Some interesting photos.

https://www.flickr.com​/photos/usnavy/

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #19042306
Jeff, don't know if you seen this. The official US Navy flickr page. Some interesting photos.

https://www.flickr.com​/photos/usnavy/

Thank you I hadn't seen that! That is the stuff we used to shoot. One of the jobs that was always a rush job and stressful was when dignitaries came on board the carrier (USS Independence CV-62) we would shoot some pics of them coming aboard and being greeted then rush job the film and printing and create a souvenir book, that also had some boiler plate shots of the ship.

It was a great and fun 4 years