There’s no mistaking the sound of the FA/18 Super Hornet. That engine roar, traveling across Seattle’s perfectly blue skies, screams loud and clear that the Bl
That engine roar, traveling across Seattle ’s perfectly blue skies, screams loud and clear that the Blue Angels are here.
The Blue Angels’ #7 pilot is the show narrator and advance pilot. Franz guided KOMO News' Denise Whitaker through a full series of maneuvers over the Olympia Mountains. They twice pulled 7Gs, the second time in a fly-by over Boeing Field, before landing. “It's a little rougher out there, but being able to show, like hey, somebody from there can make it to here and inspire some youth that could be in the position I was, and be able to know that they can make it, this here,” Crawford explained.
“It's gonna take about 10 minutes. We're gonna get up to about a max speed of 300 knots, as low as down to about 50 feet in front of the crowd. So, that's a large aircraft with a 132 foot wingspan to be that low to the ground,” he explained.
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