For decades the skilled aviators of the Navy’s Blue Angels team have thrilled us with their displays of precision flying. Fleet Week 2007 will be no exception.
 
Flying without g-suits as they perform their highly aerobatic and often high-g-force maneuvers, they frequently find themselves in formations that place wingtips only 18 inches from cockpits: an instant’s inattention […]

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In a goose-bump producing display of US military prowess,  Fleet Week comes to San Francisco this weekend.The Blue Angels prescision Navy flyboys did practice maneuvers over San Fran on Thursday in preparation for their formal flying demonstrations this Saturday and Sunday.
Critics had earlier petitioned the Board of Supervisors to ban flight-team
activities over the city because […]

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The United States Army conducts America’s largest 10 mile road race this weekend in Washington DC.The 23rd annual Army Ten-Miler is expected to attract over 26,000 runners from around the world.
“Shadow Runs” will be held in war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. In addition to the usual preparations for a run — combating […]

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