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Blue Angel #5 Loses Part Of Wing At Rockford Airfest | AirshowStuff

An unusual moment occurred at the Rockford Airfest yesterday when Blue Angel #5 lost a piece of his wing! The outer portion of the leading edge flap on the left wing went missing some time before or during the Line Abreast Loop. The flap is an aircraft control surface that helps the wing maintain lift…

An unusual moment occurred at the Rockford Airfest yesterday when Blue Angel #5 lost a piece of his wing! The outer portion of the leading edge flap on the left wing went missing some time before or during the Line Abreast Loop. The flap is an aircraft control surface that helps the wing maintain lift at high angles of attack. You can see the remaining portion of it angled slightly down in the photo above. The pilot, LCDR Mark Tedrow, completed that maneuver but appeared to give the rest of the formation some extra spacing until it was completed. He then came in to land while the rest of the team continued the performance, jumped into a two-seat backup jet, and amazingly took back off to finish the show. The situation was serious, but proved to be another shining example of the skill and professionalism of the team.

via Blue Angel #5 Loses Part Of Wing At Rockford Airfest | AirshowStuff.

Yikes! That’s the second time in two weeks they’ve had TFOA problems!

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  1. Esli

    Nice professionalism. Pre-operational maintenance, not so much…
    On a different note, it is difficult to understand how anyone can look at a Blue Angel pic and prefer a Thunderbird. Maybe for your next Naval F16, you can find it marked up in BA livery.

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  2. Shaun Evertson

    Rusty old jets held together with smoke and mirrors, applied by sailors caught in kafkaesque hell.

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