Friday, October 7, 2016

Flyover -- Please --- Day 5/230

Walk: Presidio
Distance: 4 miles and home yoga

The US Navy Blue Angels numbers 5 and 6 fly below Sean Tucker (above) as he pilots the Oracle Challenger III over San Francisco, California as part of a practice run for Fleet Week on October 6, 2016.  Photo: JOSH EDELSON, AFP/Getty Images

Ciwt joins the many San Franciscans who breathe a sigh of relief when the annual  Fleet Week/Blue Angels Flying Exhibition is safely over.  The stunts may look - and are - impressive, but they are supersonic-strafe loud, low to the rooftops and other structures, and, oh yes, executed right over the city.  A U.S. Navy Blue Angels F-18 jet, piloted by Lt. Cmdr. Scott Ind, flies near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, in San Francisco.  Two more days to go....




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