Blue Angels: F8F Bearcat IN COLOUR
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Rare colour footage of the US Navy Blue Angels performing with the F8F Bearcat in Grosse Ille, MI, in the late 1940s. Footage from the US Department of Defense via the National Acrhives.
I was Navy brat in 60s. Remember seeing Blue Angel Bearcats at NAS Corpus Christi. Awesome show. Brave souls. Beautiful planes.
4th man always out of position. I have seen modern airshows with 4 piston fighters, P51 or Spitfire etc as good if not better. Love the F8F.
Greatest airshow I never saw. Thanks for that.
Neat Stuff !
Crazy how we can Keep Machines Like These STILL Running But not Certain Fighter Jets And Other Popular Machines
Where's Beetle Bomb?
0:35 and 1:27
Very happy 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
Wonder why last plane kept farther back in formation?
What was the role of the yellow AT-6 (or SNJ as was probably the case)?
That was the Beetle Bomb, and yep, it was an SNJ. The diamond formation would start their show, only to be attacked by the Beetle Bomb (in Japanese markings). After a brief mock aerial battle, the Beetle Bomb would depart and the main show would continue. In later years, Beatle Bomb was an F8F and rather than playing a Japanese aircraft, it became the team's solo aerobatic aircraft, helping fill the pauses between diamond manoeuvres. By 1949 the team had a normal blue soloist and the Beetle Bomb wasn't really needed; it was dropped from the show after a fatal accident one year later.
Very nice 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️