Blue Angels audio Fleet Week San Francisco "A Little More PULLLLLL"

[Squawk 7700]

Blue Angels audio from Sunday's demonstration at Fleet Week San Francisco.
Captured radio calls on 275.350 MHz and 284.250 MHz.
Recording edited for time.

"A Little More PULLLLLLLLLL"

[kea001]

A  BIG THANKS  for these.

[hand1dj]

You have to love your plane.

I DO love my plane.

No, you gotta love your plane... puuuuuuuuuuuullllll....

This and the snowbirds clip are equally awesome in their own ways. Thanks for these, Squawk!

[keith]

That audio never gets old

For those that are interested in that sort of thing, I published a video of the Blues from the Jones Beach Airshow (Long Island, NY) in 2006. I kept a scanner nearby, so you get a mix of engine noise and the air-air comms.  It's not perfect, though, the scanner bounced back and forth between the solos and the diamond, sometimes picking up the group that was not being filmed at the time. Every now and then, though, it works out nicely:


They break formation during the diamond dirty loop at 2:20, but I don't hear anything on the scanner at the time.

[ect76]

Is it only me that's greatly disturbed by this clip!?!?!? 
There's something about the way he says it that creeps me out!

[pgarside]

Is it only me that's greatly disturbed by this clip!?!?!? 
There's something about the way he says it that creeps me out!

Realize that these guys are pulling up to like 8 g's sometimes so sure its gonna sound that way

[nar1224]

OMG ect, I was thinking the same thing! But figured it was probably the g's...surprised he could talk at all during that.

[ect76]

Glad I wasn't the only one! Never even crossed my mind it could be the G's though...Suppose it makes sense now I think about it!!!

[keith]

It has nothing to do with the G forces. Watch any documentary that shows a pre-flight briefing, where they run through the entire show from the comfort of a desk...and you'll notice that the Boss' intonation is exactly the same.

He uses different inflections of the same word to denote just how much pressure he plans to exert on the stick.  All of the pilots on the team listen closely and can tell what's to come by the WAY he says it. The words themselves are actually in a script, believe it or not. If you were to transcribe the Boss' audio over several shows, it should basically read the same.

Hope this helps

The 7.5g's (computer-limited maximum for the F/A-18) is only experienced by the solo's during brief moments in the show.  The folks in the Diamond don't pull more than 4, AFAIK. They can talk quite normally under those circumstances.

[KSYR-pjr]

It has nothing to do with the G forces. Watch any documentary that shows a pre-flight briefing, where they run through the entire show from the comfort of a desk...and you'll notice that the Boss' intonation is exactly the same.

He uses different inflections of the same word to denote just how much pressure he plans to exert on the stick.  All of the pilots on the team listen closely and can tell what's to come by the WAY he says it. The words themselves are actually in a script, believe it or not. If you were to transcribe the Boss' audio over several shows, it should basically read the same.

Very interesting and informative.  Makes me shake my head in continued amazement at these teams' skills.

[mhawke]

The 7.5g's (computer-limited maximum for the F/A-18) is only experienced by the solo's during brief moments in the show.  The folks in the Diamond don't pull more than 4, AFAIK. They can talk quite normally under those circumstances.

Although the 7.5g's and 4g's are made more impressive by the fact that the Blue Angels pilots do not wear g suits because it could move the stick when it inflates and deflates in response to the g's.  Normally not a problem, but defintely a problem when you are wingtip to wingtip.

Mike

[keith]

Discovery has a 4 part documentary called "Blue Angels: A Year in the Life" which is just outstanding. It's even better if you can catch it in HD (they show it on Discovery and Discovery HD Theater fairly frequently).

People may also find it useful to search for video footage from media rides. Those are the single biggest testament to the fact that the pilots can hold a normal conversation during basic aerobatic maneuvers.  They sound downright jovial.

Watch this video from the 1:30 mark onwards through the loop:


2g, 3g, 4g, the guy's voice does not change one iota. 

Try to ignore the guy in the back losing his mind