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CT-114 Swowbird's Tutors Grounded ! ! !

i still think the arrows and snowbirds are better to watch though, yes the blue angels and T birds are good flyer (or just plane insane :icon_lol:) but the display is a bit boring, weather or not the sound of the jets in real life makes it better or not i dunno but for pure video watching enternainment i'd rather watch the arrows or snowbirds anyday. Also the personality of the blues puts me off a bit, i'm sure their nice guys but the odd deflation of the head wouldnt hurt :monkies:

Guess it all depends on what floats your boat, after all, some people like marmite!! :kilroy: :icon_lol:
 
I've seen both the snowbirds and blue angels. I gotta say I enjoyed the snowbirds' show more. The blue angels are great but the hornets are just too fast to enjoy. Those tutors take more than 2 seconds to fly across the airport. :icon_lol: By the time you see the blue angels do a formation change or a roll or something, they've already gone out of sight.

Sloooowwww down so we can enjoy the show :running::stop:
 
tigisfat said:
I understand that you must be a man of your country, and that the red arrows are beautiful and good, but your first blue angels airshow will change the way you look at teams forever. They are no joke, and your jaw will drop when you see such things as the diamond 360. They are rediculously close, not just close like everyone else. Combine this with the fury of really furious precision maneuvers by the solos, and you have something only they can deliver. I know first-hand that the thunderbirds are WAY to regulated to do anything cool anymore.
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I recall one airshow at the Finningley many years ago now (it may have been 1991 but I can't recall exactly) and the Blue Angels were present along with the Russian Knights. The consensus on the day seemed to be that the Arrows were the most enjoyable, followed by the Knights, followed by the Blue Angels.

As I said this was many years ago so I'm sure things will have changed since then, but the US air displays seem to embody a very different philosophy to those in Europe, they are chalk and cheese in many respects.

I have to admit though my one major criticism of both the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds is their commentary, I find it to be rather cringeworthy. I think it was a Thunderbirds display where everyone walked out to the jets in formation, that really wasn't my cup of tea.
 
Chris H said:
I have to admit though my one major criticism of both the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds is their commentary, I find it to be rather cringeworthy. I think it was a Thunderbirds display where everyone walked out to the jets in formation, that really wasn't my cup of tea.
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The T-bords and blues are VERY different. The thunderbirds displays are VERY boring, and they take the marching thing WAY over the top. I can't handle the T-birds for that reason, and I won't even go to their airshows.

When I attended RIAT 2008 last year with a demo team, we were actually briefed by the RIAT engineers that the T-birds were the example of how not to behave. You'd have 9 jet demo teams from around the world, and the T-birds think they are the stars of the show just like they were performing at some small town somewhere.

Let us not compare the two....
 
They are all great in their own way of course. What skill, pride and dedication they all display. And as for the marching criticisms, lets not forget they are all serving military units, it's what they do.
 
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