Cleveland Air Show opens today

 

The 2022 Cleveland National Air Show takes place over the Labor Day weekend, opening on Saturday, September 3 (today). And this year, it’s the Blue Angels.

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Cleveland Air Show: Preview

 

The 2022 Cleveland National Air Show takes place over the Labor Day weekend, starting on Saturday, September 3. So they’ll be starting rehearsals on Friday.  And this year, it’s the Blue Angels.

More info at the link here.

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Salute To America

photo credit: breitbart.com

Leslie Eastman at Legal Insurrection reports on tomorrow's "Salute To America":

President Donald Trump is certainly shaking things up in Washington, DC, on all levels, including its annual Independence Day celebration.

Before Trump, the festivities consisted mainly of music and fireworks. After Trump, the “Salute to America” will include tanks, fighter jets…and an extravaganza of fireworks.

“Big 4th of July in D.C. ‘Salute to America.’ The Pentagon & our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this & showing to the American people, among other things, the strongest and most advanced Military anywhere in the World. Incredible Flyovers & biggest ever Fireworks!” the president tweeted Tuesday morning.

Mr. Trump confirmed to reporters Monday there will be tanks “stationed outside,” too.

“You’ve got to be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks,” he told reporters Monday.

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The event will also feature marching bands, fife and drum corps, floats, military units, giant balloons, and equestrian drill teams. The Blue Angels will be doing the flyover, and the fireworks (donated by Phantom Fireworks” and “Fireworks by Grucci”) will be one of the most spectacular sets the nation’s capital has seen.

Full report is here. The Independence Day parade and celebrations in DC will be broadcast on C-Span, and I will update with live stream links as soon as they are available. (The Hill reports that “MSNBC will not air the entirety of President Trump's planned "Salute to America" on July Fourth, instead opting to carry on with regularly scheduled news programming that may include clips of the event.”)

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Blue Angels rehearsing

And they look just like a demonstration at the Air Show!

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Navy Week in Cleveland

Cleveland.com reports:

Navy Week, featuring a variety of events here to celebrate that branch of the service, will formally open with a 5 p.m. ceremony on August 28 at the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Public Square.

The free event will include remarks by Vice Admiral Forrest Faison III, and performances by the U.S. Fleet Forces Band and Navy Ceremonial Guard Drill Team.

For Navy Week, which runs through Sept. 2, the monument has created a special display focusing on three admirals who were Northeast Ohio natives.

More info and schedule of Navy Week events, including the Air Show, is here.

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Preview: Cleveland Air Show over Labor Day weekend

photo credit: Pat J Dooley photography

Click here for the 2018 Cleveland Air Show website, which includes preliminary schedules, ticketing, and general information. And this year, it’s the Blue Angels.

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Blue Angels and more

Cleveland Tea Party's roving photographer Pat J Dooley forwarded gobs of photographs from the Cleveland National Air Show, and below are a few goodies of Blue Angels, the Mustang, F-35 and F-22, the F-22 with weapons bay shut and then open, and the C-17A Globemaster transport plane.

Happy Labor Day weekend

It's Friday heading into the Labor Day weekend, and the Navy's Blue Angels have been rehearsing overhead in downtown Cleveland for the Cleveland National Air Show. Here's a 2-minute preview (from the San Francisco fleet, but the routines are the same):

Cleveland Tea Party wishes everyone a Happy and safe Labor Day weekend.

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Navy Week in Cleveland

Navy Week Cleveland to finish summer

with ships, sailors and the Blue Angels

Navy Week starts tomorrow (Monday, Aug. 27):

The War of 1812 was the first declared war in the history of the United States of America, and it established the U. S Navy as a force to be reckoned with. The Navy is commemorating the bicentennial of the war with Navy Week in Cleveland, August 27 through September 4.

It includes a US Navy Bicentennial of the War of 1812 Commemoration event, and of course The US Navy Blue Angels performing in the Cleveland Air Show. The full calendar of events is here. More details here.