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Grumpy Old Guy

(3,155 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2023, 02:07 AM Mar 2023

The Point Mugu Air Show (cross posted from the photography group).

Please take a few moments to check out my photos from the Point Mugu Air Show this past weekend. This was the first time the Navy held the show since the beginning of the Pandemic.

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The Point Mugu Air Show (cross posted from the photography group). (Original Post) Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2023 OP

I watched it from my balcony. Great shots. ZonkerHarris Mar 2023 #1

I wish I could have watched it from my balcony. Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2023 #2

Great photo of the Thunderbirds. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #3

Yes! Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2023 #4

Wow that hardly happens. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #5

There is a lot of tradition there. Grumpy Old Guy Mar 2023 #6

The Navy has a big history, tradition, etc. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #7

ZonkerHarris

(24,210 posts)

1. I watched it from my balcony. Great shots.

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 02:45 AM

Mar 2023

Grumpy Old Guy

(3,155 posts)

2. I wish I could have watched it from my balcony.

Reply to ZonkerHarris (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 02:57 AM

Mar 2023

Traffic was horrendous. I tried to get there on Saturday, but Las Posas Road was backed up for four miles. I gave up and went home. I came back on Sunday morning before they opened. I'm sure it was breathtaking from where you were sitting. I'm jealous.

I have friends who go out there on a regular basis and shoot the arrivals from the little park at the front gate.

Irish_Dem

(46,579 posts)

3. Great photo of the Thunderbirds.

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 08:14 AM

Mar 2023

Did the airshow have both the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels?

Grumpy Old Guy

(3,155 posts)

4. Yes!

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 12:10 PM

Mar 2023

It was great seeing them parked right next to each other on the tarmac.

Irish_Dem

(46,579 posts)

5. Wow that hardly happens.

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 12:53 PM

Mar 2023

That must have been really neat.

I hate to admit it, but the Blue Angels are really sharp looking and put on one
hell of a show.

When I was a kid in a USAF family, the kids were totally against the Navy
having airplanes. We had a love-hate relationship with the Navy.

Grumpy Old Guy

(3,155 posts)

6. There is a lot of tradition there.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 02:20 PM

Mar 2023

I enjoyed all the pomp and circumstance attached to their performance.

Irish_Dem

(46,579 posts)

7. The Navy has a big history, tradition, etc.

Reply to Grumpy Old Guy (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 23, 2023, 02:57 PM

Mar 2023

USAF doesn't have that long of a history.
And they were never big on pomp and circumstance like the Navy.
I hardly ever saw Air Force personnel saluting each other.

As Air Force kids we didn't think the Navy had a right to fly airplanes.
The Air Force didn't get to sail ships.

The Pentagon let the Navy do whatever they wanted.
Cuter uniforms, airplanes, beautiful ships, crazy ranks, strange occupational names, bigger post exchanges.
And of course the Army had horses.

ETA We didn't think it was fair and our dads couldn't explain it to us.

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