15 April 2023
Story: Blue Angels Air Show Commemorating Navy’s 200 Years in Florida Keys
Locator Super: Key West, Fla.
Video: Video to match this story to be uploaded to FTP sites beginning at about 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15. Footage is available on the Florida Keys News Bureau's FTP server (see note below) or via Google Link here.
Extremely visual, in-cockpit footage, shot during the Blue Angels’ practice Friday, shows pilot Lt. Scott Goossens in maneuvers with other Blue Angels fighter jets over the Florida Keys.
TRT: 01:35
Filename: BlueAngelsKeyWest.mp4
Video Source: U.S. Navy via the Florida Keys News Bureau
KEY WEST, Fla. -- The U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron is performing this weekend above the Florida Keys to celebrate 200 years of naval presence in Key West.
The Blue Angels are headlining the Southernmost Air Spectacular, a free air show being staged Saturday and Sunday at Naval Air Station Key West’s Boca Chica Field in the Lower Keys.
The legendary flight demonstration team is internationally recognized for its superb formation flying and maneuvers, sometimes used in aerial combat. The squadron, whose winter home was NAS Key West in the 1960s, is performing both days in F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft.
Other air show highlights are demonstrations by the U.S. Navy Reserve Adversary Squadron VFC-111 “Sun Downers,” flying the supersonic Northrop F-5N Tiger II; and the F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team, operating the Air Force’s most advanced multirole fighter aircraft.
Also scheduled are civilian aerobatic exhibitions by leading air show performers, as well as static displays of more than 30 civilian and military aircraft.
Themed “200 Years of the Navy in Key West,” the event commemorates Commodore David Porter’s 1823 arrival and construction of the first U.S. Navy buildings on the island. Today Naval Air Station Key West is the Navy’s premier air-to-air combat training station.
The 2023 show is also among Florida Keys activities marking the 200th anniversary of the Territorial Florida Legislature’s establishment of Monroe County, which encompasses the Keys island chain.
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FTP Information
Host: ftp://216.194.165.19/
UserID: floridakeys@news.fla-keys.com
Password: islands
Folder: News Video
Filename: BlueAngelsKeyWest.mp4
It is best to access and download files from the FTP site using a dedicated FTP software package such as Fetch.
Locator Super: Key West, Fla.
Video: Video to match this story to be uploaded to FTP sites beginning at about 10 a.m. Saturday, April 15. Footage is available on the Florida Keys News Bureau's FTP server (see note below) or via Google Link here.
Extremely visual, in-cockpit footage, shot during the Blue Angels’ practice Friday, shows pilot Lt. Scott Goossens in maneuvers with other Blue Angels fighter jets over the Florida Keys.
TRT: 01:35
Filename: BlueAngelsKeyWest.mp4
Video Source: U.S. Navy via the Florida Keys News Bureau
KEY WEST, Fla. -- The U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron is performing this weekend above the Florida Keys to celebrate 200 years of naval presence in Key West.
The Blue Angels are headlining the Southernmost Air Spectacular, a free air show being staged Saturday and Sunday at Naval Air Station Key West’s Boca Chica Field in the Lower Keys.
The legendary flight demonstration team is internationally recognized for its superb formation flying and maneuvers, sometimes used in aerial combat. The squadron, whose winter home was NAS Key West in the 1960s, is performing both days in F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft.
Other air show highlights are demonstrations by the U.S. Navy Reserve Adversary Squadron VFC-111 “Sun Downers,” flying the supersonic Northrop F-5N Tiger II; and the F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team, operating the Air Force’s most advanced multirole fighter aircraft.
Also scheduled are civilian aerobatic exhibitions by leading air show performers, as well as static displays of more than 30 civilian and military aircraft.
Themed “200 Years of the Navy in Key West,” the event commemorates Commodore David Porter’s 1823 arrival and construction of the first U.S. Navy buildings on the island. Today Naval Air Station Key West is the Navy’s premier air-to-air combat training station.
The 2023 show is also among Florida Keys activities marking the 200th anniversary of the Territorial Florida Legislature’s establishment of Monroe County, which encompasses the Keys island chain.
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FTP Information
Host: ftp://216.194.165.19/
UserID: floridakeys@news.fla-keys.com
Password: islands
Folder: News Video
Filename: BlueAngelsKeyWest.mp4
It is best to access and download files from the FTP site using a dedicated FTP software package such as Fetch.