Pictures of 2002/1012-BlueAngels

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The Blue Angels come to SF for Fleet Week

And every year I go up to the roof to take pictures with my digital camera. (Here are pictures from 1999 and 2000 - there were no Blue Angels in 2001 after the September 11 attacks.)
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The blimp over the Giants post-season game wisely split toward Berkeley before the Angels arrived.

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A nice juxtaposition of old and new began the show.

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A daredevil biplane did some amazing things, including a vertical backwards slide of several hundred feet! (no pic of this)

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Here come the Angels.

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Over Coit Tower.

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This is the first shot of Sunday's exhibition.

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Perhaps the best shot of the F/A-18 Hornet Blue Angels.

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I end with the most lovely Angel in Blue of all, with our son, Steven (who slept through all the thunderous noise!)


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