Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Hot! Blue Angels Cancel Performance Rockford Airshow

ROCKFORD The Illinois weather display seeing that many people keep on a safe practices review.

The Navy's air flow demonstration staff released Saturday that would not perform along at the yearly Rockford AirFest with June. The staff is in a "safety stand-down" right after skiing too close to the ground throughout a maneuver with a good air conditioning show inside May.

Navy Cmdr. Dave Koss declared Friday they are of your accord leaving behind your company shortly afterwards a number its jets flew for a reduce altitude than allowed at the Virginia air conditioning present previous weekend.

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Two government air conditioning showing squads and also the Indiana on June 11-12.

Koss announced his or her departure a number of times following team stated it was before proceeding on a strong indefinite safe practices stand-down due to error.

Four associated with the particular half a dozen F/A-18 Hornets travelled beneath their described altitude in a diamond development along at the Memorial Day weekend tasks from a good air indicate around Millville, N.J.

"I completed a maneuver which acquired an unacceptably low minimum amount altitude," Koss explained in the declaration published by means of that Navy. "This maneuver, joined with various other situations of certainly not getting together with the actual airborne regular that helps make the Blue Angels this fantastic corporation so it is, ended in my personal decision to be able to step down."

Greg McWherter, a former Blue Angels ' Commanding Officer will certainly upgrade Koss regarding that season, this staff said.

Blue Angels pilot Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis died at a new 2007 air show in South Carolina when they quickly dropped manage regarding his / her No. some jet and it also went down.

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