{"id":4100,"date":"2019-10-08T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:05:51","slug":"4100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"Blue Angels and Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blue Angels – this picture is not photoshopped!<\/p><\/div>\n

The Blue Angels<\/a> are the US Navy’s precision formation aerobatics team. Originally formed in 1946 using Hellcat and Bearcat aircraft, the Blue Angels are famed for their amazingly tight formation flying. Currently using F18 Hornet<\/a> jets – which have a very short wingspan – they often seem to be flying so close their wingtips are overlapping. One of their signature formations includes mixed inverted and upright aircraft, which often look quite weird.<\/p>\n

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Two for the price of one – not photoshopped<\/p><\/div>\n

One of my favourite vocalists\/guitarists is Willie Nelson<\/a>, now in his late 80’s, a country singer of global stature. I first heard him too many years ago on a track called ‘Me and Bobby McGee’, a song written by Kris Kristofferson which is probably way more famous for Janis Joplin<\/a>‘s recording, although I personally find her tempo a bit too fast. Over the years, I collected a variety of Willie Nelson albums – sadly mostly on vinyl, now long gone. In an unlikely combination, Willie Nelson pays tribute to the men and women of the Blue Angels in a short YouTube video, singing another of my favourites: ‘Still is still moving to me’.<\/p>\n

Click the picture below to see the video – sorry the resolution is a bit low; there are better videos of the Blue Angels in action, and of Willie Nelson singing, but none of the two together.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Blue Angels are the US Navy’s precision formation aerobatics team. Originally formed in 1946 using Hellcat and Bearcat aircraft, the Blue Angels are famed for their amazingly tight formation flying. Currently using F18 Hornet jets – which have a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[193,211,402,504,541,1077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}