Blue Angels over Baltimore, DC, and Atlanta on Saturday

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/30/2020 at 11:00 • Filed to: America Strong, Planelopnik

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No word yet on the Thunderbirds next stop.

The DOD is not releasing the routes until 24 hours before the flyovers, so you have to keep an eye on the Twitters. All I can find is !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :

As part of “Operation America Strong,” the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds announced they will fly joint operations over Washington, Baltimore, New York, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Austin, sources told USA TODAY.

The Blue Angels will separately fly over Miami, Tampa, Tallahassee and Jacksonville, Florida; Norfolk and Virginia Beach; Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville, New Orleans; and Kingsville and Corpus Christi, Texas.

The Thunderbirds are considering flights over San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Oregon and Seattle.

Additional cities could be added to the lists.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:05

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Thunderbirds are no go?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:11

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Can you put in a request for Kalispell MT? Thanks. 

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/30/2020 at 11:13

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I read that the Thunderbirds were scheduled to fly over Detroit today or tomorrow, but the weather is no bueno. I think one of the reasons they aren’t publishing an official schedule is to allow for flexibility with the weather. 

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/30/2020 at 11:22

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Check you local listings. On top of the demo teams, local Air Force and Navy assets are doing their own flyovers. 

Sir Halffast > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:24

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Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing (appropriate username for this).

I love flyovers as much as the next person but this is a colossal waste of money. You know what would show support for front line workers? Spending this money to make sure they have PPE and masks and hell I don’t know... vaccine research funds ? Jesus Christ on a cracker. This is NOT what the country needs right now.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:29

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Good luck finding ramp space in Atlanta

Grindintosecond > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:34

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Thunderbirds flew the USAFA graduation a few weeks ago. They flew over the towns of the front range north to south and when they got to our town, they did a big circle around using my house as the center point. Got the family together to see in teh front lawn, where they flew in teh distance in front of the house and they went around, we ran through the house to the back deck to watch, T hen back through to the front yard again...

Textured Soy Protein > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 11:38

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My house is directly under the flight path of many planes landing 17 miles away at DCA. They’re still high up enough that there’s no noise, but I can see them flying overhead through the skylights in my bedroom . I’ve actually flown from LGA to DCA and watched the little flight tracker map go right over my house. So...maybe I’ll be in this flight path.

benn454 > Sir Halffast 04/30/2020 at 11:58

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 Morale is important, too.

ttyymmnn > Sir Halffast 04/30/2020 at 12:43

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This is not new money. All of the money for this was already allocated for canceled air shows. And let’s not forget about the billions of dollars Trump raided from the DOD budget to build that f**king wall.

ttyymmnn > Grindintosecond 04/30/2020 at 12:44

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That pull out on the interstate would have been a great place to watch, too.

ttyymmnn > Textured Soy Protein 04/30/2020 at 12:45

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I’m on the landing path for AUS. I haven’t heard a plane in weeks. 

Sir Halffast > ttyymmnn 04/30/2020 at 17:25

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You’re right, it’s not. But the whole point of declaring a state of emergency was to enable the re-programming of funds to fight the pandemic. These funds most likely could have been thus reprogrammed, but weren’t. Because President Trump values spectacle over substance.