October 09, 2003
each year, fleet week in SF seems to sneak up on me. i should remember, it always happens in the middle of october. but it never dawns on me until i hear the roar of the engines of the blue angels F18's introducing themselves. and when you work in a downtown office building, forget about having any phone conversations while they're flying by.
me (on the phone): can you hold on a moment?
blue angels: ROAARRRR!!!!
client on phone in LA: what the hell was that?!
me: oh nothing...
i did get a few decent pictures of them though, they were practicing while i was on lunchbreak.
Posted by P at October 9, 2003 08:38 PM
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Are you kidding? I slept to that sound for 10 years! And we are near an Air Force base now and I love it! Especially when I can't think because it's so loud! (we live near the final approach area)I'm dying for the Angels to come out here so I can take the kids to see them fly!
Posted by: Susan at October 9, 2003 09:38 PM
i'm with susan, haha. when i was younger, we lived under the flight path of the air force base (at the age when all boys want to be fighter pilots), so it was cool.
now i live in dc and there's ALWAYS something flying overhead. mostly helicopters, but we get everything ... blimps, jets, passenger planes, etc.
Posted by: tj at October 10, 2003 07:40 AM
I agree I love the sound of F18's flying by! The other week my sister and I saw 2 Sealth Bombers fly over head. That was really impressive. I never saw one before. They must have been going home from the Williow Grove air show! I hope!
Posted by: valley at October 10, 2003 02:55 PM
it's pretty cool watching 5 or 6 of them fly in formation over downtown (like I saw today coming back from lunch) ... thank goodness they know what they're doing, cos I still do a double-take whenever I see a plane in a place I don't think I've seen one before
Posted by: brian at October 10, 2003 05:43 PM
WHAT???????
Posted by: Kathy Howe at October 10, 2003 08:31 PM
"whatthehellwasthat?"
"Just a few war planes flying 500 or so feet off the ground with 2000 lb. bombs attached...nothing at all"
Posted by: btezra at October 13, 2003 03:41 PM