SF Fleet Week 2012 Air Show

Well what a weekend San Francisco had.  These where some of the events scheduled there:

1. Fleet Week  A week of navy/military based events topped off on the weekend with an air show.
2. America's Cup, AC World Series race.  This was most of the week and finished on Sunday.
3. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival  This was at Golden Gate park on the weekend.
4. Castro Street Fair.
5. Italian/American Parade.
6. 49ers game on Sunday.
7. Giants game on Saturday and Sunday.
8. Couple of others I think I missed.

Anyway, Bart set record attendance with about 320K per day and other transportation increased.  So I think SF did a pretty good job dealing with all the extra people.

Our participation in this weekend was going to Crissy Field and Presidio for the air show and America's race.  This post will concentrate on the air show which was enjoyable and I do miss going to them.  (It has been aver 10 years since I went to an air show, now that I have a good camera, I need to go to more.)
So here are a couple of pictures of the Red Bull stunt plane.  (We where right of Marina Greens, which was center stage for the air show.)

Here are a few pictures of the Canadian Precision Air Team.

The F-22 did some high-speed runs and maneuvers.  You will notice just how plain that this aircraft look compared to the Blue Angels.  It is rather pretty itself.

Now for the Blue Angels.  Since the marine layer was in an out all day.  It was rather far inland, for the air show standard, when the Canadians flew, but was outside the gate when the Blue Angels flew.  Thus the differences in the pictures of the Golden Gate.  With that being said, the air had a tremendous amount of moisture in it for the shock vapor effect to be visible quiet often.

There where a lot of other birds around.  They where lower and in the foreground but did offer some unexpected pictures.

Here are more pictures of the Blue Angels.

The finally.

Overall, nice event and everyone enjoyed it.