{"id":814,"date":"2009-10-14T20:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2009-10-14T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:43:47","slug":"sfo_ua_fleet_week_event_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/sfo_ua_fleet_week_event_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"SFO UA Fleet Week event 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UAhangar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/UAhangar.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEach 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.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"baengines.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/baengines.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Firing up the engines<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bawingwalk.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bawingwalk.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Inspection<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bawalkaround.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bawalkaround.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Walkaround<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"basitting.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/basitting.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Waiting for the &#8220;go&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bafat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bafat.jpg?resize=479%2C320\" width=\"479\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fat Albert takes off to take readings for the air show<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bawaveoff.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bawaveoff.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Finally off!<\/em><br \/>\nThe 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 &#8220;flat show&#8221;.<br \/>\nBesides the Angels, there&#8217;s the other events&#8230;<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"planepull.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/planepull.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Each year, there&#8217;s a plane pull between the Blue Angels and two groups of Flyertalkers (who usually lose pretty badly)<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"747400ua.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/747400ua.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>UA took part in the Fleet Week Airshow for the first time with this low flying 747-400<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"usaf2009.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/usaf2009.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The USAF sent two F-16s<\/em><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sq15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/sq15.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>And to wrap this up, here&#8217;s SQ15 enroute to Seoul Incheon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/sfo_ua_fleet_week_event_2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SFO UA Fleet Week event 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-topics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-d8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}