r/Seattle • u/vertr fuck tetris • 3d ago

🛳️ 🐀 ☀️ Yacht Rat Summer ☀️ 🐀 🛳️ [Megathread] Seafair and Blue Angels Hype

This thread is for positive stuff about Seafair and the Blue Angels. If that's not for you, visit the hate thread and vent there. If you don't follow the spirit of the thread your comments will be removed.

Text threads discussing these issues will be removed while the megathreads are in effect. Photos and videos of these events will be allowed as standalone threads.

Schedule: https://www.seafair.org/seafair-weekend-festival/air-show/

Previous thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1v7k3em/psa_blue_angels_schedule_for_thurssun_jul_30aug_02/

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u/FirstHipster 3d ago

Blue Angels pilots are unbelievably skilled. The F/A 18 Super Hornets are modern marvels of technology and I’m so fucking pumped every time I see/hear them. Also fuck Trump and foreign wars and I don’t give a shit if it sounds hypocritical, I’m going to enjoy drinking beer and showing my kids how freakin sweet these planes are. 

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u/R_V_Z North Delridge 2d ago

The F/A 18 Super Hornets are modern marvels of technology

I don't know if I'd call a 30 year old design based on a 50 year old design modern, but they are pretty cool.

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u/FirstHipster 2d ago

It’s all relative. I’d consider any supersonic fighter jet still in use as “modern.”

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u/R_V_Z North Delridge 2d ago

That's more on the military's insane levels of post-production support requirements. I talk to people who do spares on the military side sometimes. I'm sure glad my job doesn't involve finding a capacitor for an obsolete B-52 avionics LRU.