The Thunderbird pilot was part of the demo at the graduation of the current Air Force Academy, around 1pm, after a low pass, he ejected near Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just after ceremonies at the nearby academy where President Obama delivered the commencement address.
The Blue Angel pilot was taking off in #6 from the Symrna Tennessee airport to join the Navy demo group at about 3 pm, did not change direction from the runway according to the map, seems there was a total engine failure
and seems to have stayed with his plane to keep it from hitting homes, and he died on impact, in a forested area next to a housing area. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/06/02/navy-blue-angel-jet-crashes-smyrna/85308972/
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http://www.greattennesseeairshow.com/#/
So that's a couple tens of millions of dollars and one dead pilot. Just what the hell do we need flying choreography for at this expense? Doesn't this country need to repair some dams, bridges, and roads?
Bread and Circus, my friend, control with bread and circus.
ReplyDeletewhat in the hell is "bread and circus"? what does that mean?
DeleteYou are so right. What do we need the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds for when our infrastructure is in such bad repair? For that matter, what do we need cars for when we could use the money spent on automobiles to feed the poor and house the homeless.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you aren't smart enough to know the difference Ray, but what the govt decides to do with the tax income it gets, and with the individual citizen chooses to do with their income, is a difference of billions of dollars a day. If you want to be a jack ass and play a game of political fuck fuck, you won't be doing it here. Feeding the poor and housing the homeless is what the Christians and Catholics are supposed to be doing. We don't need jet jock teams wasting millions to make noisy fly bys, go to the nearest airport and sit at the end of a runway, get all the noise you can take. Unless the govt fixes the infrastructure, it simply deteriorates. Individual citizens don't have the billions to fix a bridge, nor the roads departments to grade and pave them. As for your asinine question about cars... we need them to get to work, so we avoid being homeless, and hungry, and it's how we pay the taxes that the govt is responsible to use wisely for the greater good
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