Talk:Blue Angels
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[edit] Grammer
Part of the article reads as follows:
This reorganization permitted the establishment of a commanding officer vice a flight leader, added support officers, and further redefined the squadron's mission emphasizing the support of recruiting efforts.
What the heck does 'vice a flight leader' mean? If i even knew what it was supposed to mean, I would make an edit myself, but i'm lost. --Measure 21:36, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on the Blue Angels per se, but I do know that in the U.S. Navy, the command structure generally consists of a Commanding Officer who in the Blue Angels is also known as the Squadron Leader or "Boss." I think the editor was attempting to say that the team has a Commanding Officer "INSTEAD OF" (vice or versus) a flight leader. Pihanki 22:27, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Critics
Does anyone know of any criticisms like that they are a waste of tax payer money or something? Mbisanz 00:24, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
- I don't know exactly how these things are funded, but I would guess that the budget for the Angels and other demo teams comes out of the recruiting budget. It is up to the Military to decide the best way to spend their money, and if they think it helps to have these demo teams, then they probably also have facts and figures to back it up. --Measure 19:49, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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- If you think about the fact that the team is more than just the pilots (they have a sizeable support crew) and that they travel a lot, I'm sure there's plenty of criticism in the cost and maintenance of the whole thing.
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- I'm sure there's also those in favor of them, that say that they inspire awe and other things like that. They do do some pretty cool stuff. I don't think it's a waste of money myself. There's other things in the government that are bigger wastes of money. *Cough* Bush Administration *Cough* TotalTommyTerror 17:31, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
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- I just had the oppportunity to bring this question up to a few members of the Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds at the Jacksonville NAS Air Show this afternoon (Oct 29, 2006). Both teams are familiar with some criticism in recent years, but I am told that the support outweighs the naysayers by a very large margin. Since the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds F-16 and F-18 aircraft are near combat ready, their air show schedule is not that much different from the routine flights taken at bases all over the country, and indeed the world everyday as far as the finances are concerned. They remain prepared to enter combat if the need should ever arise. Also, I found out that the bills are paid from the recruiting budget and a sepatate fund
dedicated solely to the flight demo teams which is used when the recruiting budget runs dry.
[edit] Wiki Commons images
I created commons:Blue Angels to collect the existing commons images into one place and added a link to the article while sorting commons images. Might want to use some of those in this article; also, it would be good to move the images currently used here into wiki commons. Pimlottc 20:32, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Blue Angel Blue
Would anyone know which plane was the first to be painted "Blue Angel Blue" and have documentation to prove it? Just building models of one of each BA plane for my grandson and desiring accuracy. Thanks, Jack Ablon
[edit] Blue Angels Planes almost combat worthy?
I seem to remember seeing on a documentary, probably on the Discovery Channel, that the Blue Angels aircraft are flight frames near the end of their useful lives, with most of the combat avionics and systems stripped out for both weight and simplicity reasons. They are the next to last usage of a plane (The last being 'put on a stick' or some similar term with just the empty airframe used for a display piece). I could however be misremembering. Is there a source for the 'Combat ready in 72 hours' information? 207.59.200.164 17:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
