Anonymous ID: 7e1299 Aug. 8, 2020, 11:02 p.m. No.10230293   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0328

TIL that the Blue Angels were named for a Manhattan Night Club.

 

In the early jet age, pilots had good reason to fear the F7U

The Gutless Cutlass.

 

By DC Agle

AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE

AUGUST 2012

 

n November 1951, at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, Lieutenant Commander Edward โ€œWhiteyโ€ Feightner received the call he had been waiting for. On the line was an admiral from Naval Air Training Command, who told him he had been selected for the Navyโ€™s flight demonstration squadron, which would eventually adopt the name the Blue Angels (after a Manhattan nightclub).

 

โ€œItโ€™s a big thing to get a Blue Angel position,โ€ says Feightner. โ€œYou get the royal treatment, travel the country, get to meet a lot of good people, have fun at airshows, do some great flying and some valuable recruiting for the Navy. There are few better jobs.โ€

 

Feightner had just one question: What airplane would the team fly?

 

โ€œHe said the F7U-1 Cutlass,โ€ recalls Feightner, at the time a Navy test pilot with the most flight time in that very aircraft. โ€œI told him I just resigned.โ€

 

moar at:

 

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-gutless-cutlass-12023991/

Anonymous ID: 7e1299 Aug. 8, 2020, 11:13 p.m. No.10230328   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>10230293

And it burned.

 

New York City Fire Museum

December 18, 2013 ยท New York, NY ยท

12/18/1975: Blue Angel Nightclub Fire - When a curtain catches fire at the Blue Angel nightclub, employees try to douse the flames with glasses of water and milk for almost a half-hour before calling 911. Their delay contributes to the deaths of 7 people. Sweeping fire code reform is enacted, mandating sprinklers in public establishments, emergency lighting and central alarm systems.

https://www.facebook.com/nycfiremuseum/posts/10151729924985493

 

(Assuming that it is the same club because that fire is 24 years later) Could have been a different club altogether.

 

Any older NY anons know?

Anonymous ID: 7e1299 Aug. 8, 2020, 11:44 p.m. No.10230441   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>10230424

From covering their shit in the litter box to prancing on the kitchen counter. Not a good look. Toxiplasmosis.

I love all animals but temper my thinking with common sense when it comes to roommates. Dogs are the way to go.