Blue Angels normal and aborted maneuvers...

[IRGuy]

You might have read that the Navy's Blue Angels aerial acrobatic team has cancelled several performances, including their scheduled performance at the Naval Academy graduation. The reason is that the team is on a "safety stand down" so they can determine what went wrong with one of their maneuvers in which they came too close to the ground.

Here is a video of the normal maneuver and the one that caused the safety stand down....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUWQlXQB20&hd=1

[Dug]

Yikes.