Destin, Florida

[maxpower220]

The Blues practice on Tues and Wed mornings. Wed mornings they do pictures and autographs. They have 3 different "shows" based on weather conditions. They practice them on different days if weather has not dictated it. So, the show should change. The museum is probably one of the best in the U.S. If you are at the base, plan at least a few hours to view it. The airshow is 40 minutes.
If you are here during an afternoon, and the schedule is light, I may be able to get you into a T-6A Texan flight simulator. I teach flight students. Problem is, it's a daily schedule, so I wouldn't know until the day before.

If you want to ski, Pickos ski school is just down from Destin.

[rdlangston13]

So we watched the Angels practice today. That was awesome! We didn't get into the area where the grandstands were because Heidi left her ID in the truck and they had 100% ID Check signs out. We just watched from the museum. By the looks of the crowd the 1,000 seat grand stand was easily at capacity. It was packed! The line to get into the museum after the show was about 100 yards long and I think Heidi had lost interest by then any way. It was still way cool, at one point one of them came across the left to right hauling ass and at the same time one sneaked around behind us and came over our head very low at what had to be an insane speed. He then turned up and went dang near vertical if not vertical and just disappeared into the sky like a rocket.


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[wolfeman131]

Get over to The Red Bar now!

[maxpower220]

at one point one of them came across the left to right hauling ass and at the same time one sneaked around behind us and came over our head very low at what had to be an insane speed. Sent from my iPhone

They try to achieve .99 Mach on that pass. If you know it's coming, on a humid day like today, the canopy will appear totally white with vapor as it has gone through critical mach.

[rdlangston13]

They try to achieve .99 Mach on that pass. If you know it's coming, on a humid day like today, the canopy will appear totally white with vapor as it has gone through critical mach.

After it passed us over head you could see the white vapor trying to form around the plane, it was super awesome. Some of the turns they did behind made some awesome racket with the rear of the plane facing you. I loved the banner they had hanging that read "THE SOUND OF FREEDOM" Those guys are nuts and those planes are awesome, i wanna go again!

[rdlangston13]

Picked up some of that Ed G drink while we were in FL to bring back west


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[samvq1]

As a former Navy guy, I've seen the Blue Angels many times. It never gets old. I could watch them 100 more times and enjoy it as much as the first time.