Eddie writes:

I like that shot of Fat Albert with the GG in the background.
Never seen a plane with all four engines feathered.
NAH, sure looks like it, eh?

What's more subtle is the high blade angle. The propeller
governors keep the engines turning at a constant speed despite
changes in the power setting. On the ground, the props are a
almost at flat pitch. (I was a Coast Guard C-130 flight engineer.)


By the way, you know that the left-wing loonies always try to
get Fleet Week cancelled because of it's "militarism" theme.

Left-wing loonies are a Bay Area environmental hazard, unfor-
tunately.


The best shows were when they used to come to Moffett Field, imho.

I miss those, too. I used to live within easy bicycling distance
of Moffett. Friends and I would lock our bikes to the chain link
fence close to the public entrance off of Ellis Street in Sunnyvale,
and not have to worry about traffic on the way out. We could be at
the local brewpub within twenty minutes or so.


The following week July 13, 1985, while performing somewhere in
the east coast, there was an accident in which one pilot was killed.
His name was Lt. Cmdr. Mike Gershon, the pilot I had talked to at
Moffett.

Niagara Falls.

That's a shame. I saw the Blues perform at the Reno Air Show later
that season, and they had the four-ship formation plus a solo -- the
other pilot who'd been involved in that midair, LT Andy Caputi.



Geoff

--
"The future stretches before us, brown and sticky, like the
broad smile of a mongoloid eating peanut butter off a spoon."
-- snide