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Editor's Note:
My
apologies for the untimely fashion NEPTUNE no.3 came out. March was a
particularly hard month in real life but here we are and catching up.
Thank you for your support. Go Navy!
CAPT. Asra Kron
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Luxor Blue Angels Airshow 2018
Welcome to the Luxor International Airport Air Show, March 31, 2018.
Participating squadrons and schedule:
Navy Flight Demonstration Team Blue Angels - 12:00 SLT (noon)
Bull Rock Hornets - 13:00 SLT
Phoenix Aerobatic Team - 14:00 SLT
AUDIENCE SLURS
Luxor International Audience (limited audience please check with local officials)
Marine Corps Base Quantico (Tkachiev)
USS Defiant (Maxwell)
Blue Angels Demo Layout:
Sapas < Nepthys < Muta < Mentha
Lanig > Maxwell > MELIA > Abeona
DEMO SIM: MELIA
Base sim: Tseshkovsky (Luxor)
Bingo: Aleksandr Intl Airport - Svidler
SHOW ALTITUDES:
Demo - 75/85 meters
Waiting - 120/130 meters
Ceiling - 140 meters - DROP
Deck - 70 meters - PULL UP
Luxor alt - 65 meters
* TAKE OFF - FORMATION - 36
Arrow (reversed) 2-1-3
Arrow - smoke on
Half Cuban 8 - smoke on
* TAKE OFF - SOLOS - 36
5 up dirty roll on take off
6 up vertical pull
>>> PASS ONE
* ARROW
360 Pass - smoke on
** SOLOS
Opposing horizontal roll - smoke on
>>> PASS TWO
* ARROW
In-formation aileron roll - no smoke
** Solos
Section high alpha pass - smoke on
>>> PASS THREE
* ARROW
Dirty loop - smoke on
** SOLOS
Fortus - no smoke
>>> PASS FOUR
* ARROW
Single Farvel - no smoke
** SOLOS
Tuck away cross - smoke on
>>> PASS FIVE
* ARROW to ECHELON LEFT 3
Echelon left 3 parade pass - smoke on *
* Possible Tuck Under Break
** SOLOS
High Speed Roll - smoke on
Opposing Solo joins the Diamond after this pass to pass six
>>> PASS SIX
* ECHELON LEFT 3 to DIAMOND
Diamond parade pass - smoke on
** Solos
Solo Leader sneak pass
>>> PASS SEVEN
* DIAMOND
Diamond Loop - smoke on
** SOLOS
Solo Leader free style
>>> PASS EIGHT
* DIAMOND
Diamond Star Burst reforming to Echelon right 5 - smoke on
**
Solo Leader joins after
>>> PASS NINE
* ECHELON RIGHT 5
From Echelon Right 5 formation with smoke on (Melia)
Carrier break 180 from ABEONA and East may extend to Theia
LANDING
Thursday, March 15, 2018
The fleet's Vipers
The Navy does have operational General Dynamics F-16's, only they are named "Vipers" to set them apart from the U.S.A.F. "Fighting Falcons". Used in real life first at N.A.S. Miramar and the Navy Fighter Weapons School and to this day at N.A.S. Fallon with the Naval Strike Air Warfare Center (Topgun's heir), the "Vipers" serve in dissimilar air combat tactics (D.A.C.T.) training in the adversary role, providing the fleet with a light and highly maneuverable aircraft to fly against the front line naval fighters during TOPGUN engagements.
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| "Bad Girl 24" at N.A.F. Eagles Nest. |
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| Vipers on the tarmac at Miramar before an intercept exercise - class 1 of 2017. |
As in real life, N.A.S. Miramar has a number of F-16N Vipers used for D.A.C.T., increasing the capacity and options of the local aggressors. At this time we have 4 naval aviators assigned to the aggressor squadron (VFC-13 Saint Adversaries), who also fly the F-5E Tiger, the A-4 Skyhawk, and occasionally soviet fighters "acquired" for D.A.C.T. engagements in Vietnam with 7th Fleet. The VFC-13 squadron leader, CAPT. Vickster "Speed" Kühn, also flies an F/A-18B Hornet assigned to the N.F.W.S. (Black Zero Zero).
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| VFC-13 aggressors at Eagles Nest: F-15N Viper and F-5E Tiger. |
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| Bad Girls 24 and 26 over the Aldabra Sea, North of N.A.S. Miramar. |
Aggressor pilots come from front line squadrons at Miramar and also from TOPGUN crews that made top of their class, whom are given the option of becoming aggressors with VFC-13 as well as N.F.W.S. instructors. You can see the Viper's profile here!
CAPT. Asra Kron
NASMCO / TFCOM