Each year, United Airlines hosts a Friends and Family event at the Maintenance Center at SFO. It has a classic car show, some UA hardware on display, lots of booths aimed toward their employees, a A319 for a plane pull and oh yeah, the Blue Angels.
Firing up the engines
Inspection
Walkaround
Waiting for the "go"
Fat Albert takes off to take readings for the air show
Finally off!
The height of Fleet Week is the airshow over the Marina Green and the waterfront. Due to weather (lots of low fog), the Saturday show was cancelled. This show would be the only one and because of the slightly higher fog, they had a "flat show".
Besides the Angels, there's the other events...
Each year, there's a plane pull between the Blue Angels and two groups of Flyertalkers (who usually lose pretty badly)
UA took part in the Fleet Week Airshow for the first time with this low flying 747-400
The USAF sent two F-16s
And to wrap this up, here's SQ15 enroute to Seoul Incheon
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