Blue Angels Grounded
April 10, 2013 by staff
Blue Angels Grounded, The future of San Francisco’s annual Fleet Week was thrown into doubt Tuesday when the Navy grounded the show’s star attraction, the Blue Angels precision flying team, citing federal budget cuts.
Officials said they would try to salvage an event that draws as many as 1 million visitors to the northern waterfront each fall, many of them to watch the half-dozen F/A-18 fighter jets shriek overhead in tight formation.
But J. Michael Myatt, a retired Marine Corps major general who heads the Fleet Week organizing group, acknowledged that without the Blue Angels, it might not be possible to stage the Parade of Ships naval flotilla and an air show featuring lesser attractions.
“It is an economic issue, because it’s very expensive,” Myatt said. “Without the Blue Angels, it’s difficult for us to raise the money to put that on.
“There likely will not be an air show without the Blue Angels,” Myatt said, and the Parade of Ships could be in jeopardy as well because of the Pentagon’s budget cuts.
Myatt said this year’s Fleet Week, scheduled for Oct. 12 and 13, might still include other types of military demonstrations such as those showcasing humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness.
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