Blue Angels!

[billybarue]

Rockin - They put on a heck of a show!

Look at the beginning of the video as the canopy is closing - note the pilot only has a boom mike and no full oxygen mask. I've never understood that about the Blues. Seems to me they would rather have a full oxygen mask in case you get some kind of smoke or fumes in the cockpit. Without O2, with heavy smoke in the cockpit there ain't much of a choice but to get the heck out.

Also, as I understand it, the Blues don't wear g-suits due to center stick (vice the F-16 sidestick with T-birds). Argument is with center stick they can't tolerate the g-suit inflating and bumping their arms/hands when in close wingtip formation. Makes sense, but than think about pulling high G maneuvers without a g-suit!