What Is the Schedule for the Blue Angels at This Week

Get ready to pack those coolers and load up your car — or boat. The U.S. Navy Blue Angels return for the Pensacola Beach Air Show July 6-9.

The Blue Angels will headline all events, which culminate July 8 with a full dress rehearsal and July 9 with the official air show. In addition to the Blue Angels, there will be a host of world-class military, aerobatic and stunt plane performers, as well as interactive exhibits and all types of vendors.

Here's a look at the schedule:

Blue Angels Pensacola Beach Air Show schedule

"Breakfast with the Blues" kicks off the air show week at about 7:30 a.m. July 6when the Blue Angels arrive and circle overhead to mark the show's coordinates and center points along Pensacola Beach.

The Blue Angels will then hold a practice show over Pensacola Beach at 2 p.m. July 7.

The Pensacola Beach Air Show dress rehearsal with flight demonstrations and civilian aerobatic performances begins at approximately 11 a.m. July 8, with the Blue Angels flying at 2 p.m.

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The official Pensacola Beach Air Show on July 9 exactly follows Friday's dress rehearsal schedule:

• Julian MacQueen will lead off the civilian acts portion of the air show in his big, flying seaplane, a vintage 1943 Grumman Widgeon, starting at about 11 a.m.
• The Veteran's Flight team will be over the Gulf. Organized by Pensacola attorney and pilot Roy Kinsey, about a dozen vintage Stearman biplane pilots from all over the Southeast will be flying World War II and Korean War veterans over Pensacola Beach on July 8 and 9 as a way to pay tribute to them, and give the tens of thousands of beach spectators a glimpse at aviation history.
• A U.S. Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue demonstration will take place near the beach pier from an MH-65D Dolphin medevac helicopter. The SAR aircrew consists of two pilots, one flight mechanic and a rescue swimmer. Depending on the nature of distress, the rescue swimmer deploys via freefall or hoist to provide assistance.
• Solo pilot Kevin Coleman will push the limits of his bright yellow Extra 300 SHP stunt plane over Pensacola Beach.
• Pilots Ken Rieder and Adam Baker with Redline Aerobatic Team will take to the skies in their signature red and black stunt planes to perform opposing stunts and inverted maneuvers and formations.
• Stunt pilot Skip Stewart will then wow the crowds with high-skill passes and jaw-dropping maneuvers in his famous red, white and black-checkered biplane, Prometheus.
• New to the show this year, Patty Wagstaff, the first woman to win the title of U.S. National Aerobatic champion and a six-time member of the U.S. Aerobatic Team, will take the sky over Pensacola Beach. Her breathtaking performances give airshow spectators a front-row seat view of the precision and complexity of hard-core aerobatics.
• Closing out the civilian acts, solo pilot Gary Ward will zip overhead in his green and purple MX2 aircraft, showcasing an aerobatic act packed with breathtaking maneuvers that range from zero speed hovers to dives in excess of 250 mph.
• There will be about a 35-minute window for spectators to cool off and take a dip in the Gulf before lifeguards clear the water again in anticipation of the start of the Blue Angels show.
• At 2 p.m., look to the Gulf horizon as a famous C-130J aircraft, affectionately known as Fat Albert, followed by six signature blue and gold F-18 Super Hornets, make their way over Pensacola Beach. For the next 50 minutes, spectators will get a glimpse of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels aeronautic maneuvers like the Diamond Dirty Loop, the Double Farvel, the Vertical Pitch, the Fleur-de-Lis, the Opposing Knife-Edge Pass and the crowd-favorite Sneak Pass. These are just a few of the mind-blowing displays of choreographed precision flying the Navy's flight demonstration team has perfected over the past 75 years.

Getting around the Blue Angels Pensacola Beach Air Show

To help alleviate traffic congestion for the Pensacola Beach Air Show, the Santa Rosa Island Authority is extending public transportation hours along the island July 8 and is adding extra buses to the schedule July 9.

The three, free, open-air trolleys will begin transporting customers starting at 7:30 a.m. July 8 and extend service to Park East, located a mile east of Portofino Resort, until 6 p.m. Following that, the regular route will resume until midnight.

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Starting at 6:30 a.m. July 9, the SRIA will have seven buses in addition to the three trolleys running and will extend its service area to Park East until 6 p.m. Following that, the trolleys will resume normal operations until midnight.

Trolleys will service passengers from Park East and Park West to Casino Beach throughout the day. Post-show, trolleys servicing Portofino Resort/Park East will be staged on Via de Luna directly across from Santa Rosa Island Authority (facing east). Trolleys servicing Park West will be staged on Fort Pickens Road adjacent to The Sandshaker (facing west).

Due to traffic and congestion buildup, trolley service to the access road stops (Grand Marlin, Radical Rides/Laguna's, Quietwater Beach and the Boardwalk) will be temporarily suspended until 6 p.m.

Passengers will only be picked up and dropped off at designated trolley stops.

Passengers who wish to get back to their vehicles as soon as the air show ends need to be on the first fleet of trolleys leaving Casino Beach post-show. Due to the gridlock that occurs immediately following the air show, riders should expect to wait as long as 90 minutes for the trolleys to return to Casino Beach if they are not on the first trip out.

The SRIA is requiring the public to suspend all flights of unmanned aircraft, or drones, during the air waiver hours of the Pensacola Beach Air Show. In addition, glass is always prohibited on the beach, and leashed dogs are only allowed at the two designated dog beaches on either side of the island.

Following the air show, when it's time to pack up and leave, the SRIA reminds beachgoers to leave only their footprints behind, taking everything they brought to the beach back out to keep the area clean.

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Source: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/military/blueangels/2022/06/29/blue-angels-pensacola-beach-show-2022-schedule-announced/7767683001/

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