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flight operations over San Francisco Bay 6/2/2012 what was the flight of a lear jet, a blue angle jet and a small prop plane doing fluig in formation flying over the San Francisco Bay between 5 in ...

Bill Compton
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One would think that three such dissimilar aircraft could not fly together.  The Blue Angels are a Naval unit flying the highest performance fighter aircraft we have.  Lear Jets are smaller and cannot fly as fast as our fighters.  Small propeller driven aircraft would be at the limit to keep up with the minimum speeds that these other aircraft require to stay aloft.

Perhaps they arranged some flight plan that would keep them in the air together.  It would be very difficult for them to keep pace one with the other, but I suppose it could be done with sufficiently expert pilots at the controls.

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Rocmike's alias Bill is tarting off today's posting marathon. After posting for 42 hours in the last 3 days we are in store of more of the same crap.
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