Thunderbirds & Blue Angels 2023 Point Mugu Air Show

[@Elaine-uc6hd]

They are Phenomenal, Magnificently Beautiful, Awe Inspiring, Courageously Fearless, I have Such Respect for them and their service. The Pilots are Exceptional and so are the Ground Crew, the Navy or America couldn't ask for better. They are SIMPLY THE BEST ❤️🤍💙.

[@jonh901271]

So cool to see my nephew (Thunderbird No 6) mount up. Will see him and the team in Cocoa Beach in a couple of weekends.

[@sweettrubble4635]

Cool. My son graduated from the Naval Academy almost 20 years ago, and I have always been very proud of him. I love watching the precision of these jets, the pilots, and the ground crew.

[@kelpy-g2634]

Ji

[@НатальяРыкова-ы8ш]

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[@mikebobier647]

Ah jet noise. The sound of freedom on display. Both groups are CLASS ACTS and I love em both. Men and women like these groups along with ground crews and thousands of ancillary staff keep us free. That goes for all branches of United States military. A heartfelt thanks to all❤❤❤

[@rodbutler4054]

Those F16s have a loud distinctive roar!

[@tammyowens2309]

I love both the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels. I would love to see them one day. Tammy Owens

[@orlandoclark8062]

Never get tried of watching these two teams preform. They both give awesome shows.

[@dcs244832]

Absolutely

[@allans7281]

I pulled up to the show on my motorcycle just as 2 F 16s were banking right above me -the bike was shaking. The roar is Awesome!!!!!

[@judypham1385]

SỐ PROUD ALL OF YOU!❤

[@CatherineShores-z9g]

Thrilling to find this. I saw both, and lived in Pensacola where the Blue Angels were stationed. Wanted to chill tonight yet I feel the chill of excitement. Crisp and vivid.

[@bjhutson1901]

Great show love the Thunderbirds.

[@andreabehl9737]

I love the thunderbirds too sneak pass is my favorite demonstration

[@loriburrola6152]

Sooooo incredible to have both perform at the same show!!! ❤🤍💙❤️

[@dcs244832]

Saw them both here at Dover Air Force Base,Delaware

[@MilandWalling-su6gp]

Beautiful USA!!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY. WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THEM ALL ACROSS OUR BEAUTIFUL USA FOR ABOUT A WEEK OR MORE TO BOOST MORALE IN OUR COUNTY

[@andreabehl9737]

I saw them both this air show but never since this air show

[@andreabehl9737]

And this was the last air show I saw Julius Bratton at 😢

[@firstnamelastname3558]

Awesome! I was stationed at NAWS Pt. Mugu 1991-1995. I practically lived in the weight room on base.

[@aperture1967]

Wow, this is one of the best airshow videos that I have ever seen, Spencer! Your tracking is exceptional, and your editing is outstanding! I can only imagine how many airshows must have been required to be able to anticipate the action as well as you do! Please, keep on with what you've become so great at doing! ~Tim Huebel / Columbia, South Carolina

[@baciuandreialexandru]

Love You !!! You are te Best!!!From Romania!!! Andrei! Timișoara

[@jasongeerer8163]

Ive never been to an air show that included both the blue angels AND the thunder birds!!!

[@glenn5903]

My dad was in the Air Force. Go Thundbirds ! And the Angels to!😅😅😅

[@johnleos1687]

Everytime I see them fly, my eyes tear up with pride! 😅 Everyone wants to fly 🦸 but only a few can fly like this! 🦇

[@HyakuriSpotter]

Thunderbirds & Blue Angels were great! I'm good at shooting videos. I was glad that it included a walkdown and narration. thank you. 😎👍🏻

[@michellewhyatt4438]

This was brilliant the start up of the engines the buzz of listening and watching. You really are 100% amazing at what you do. Never stop as I love these absolutely love them thank you so much

[@Sherylharriff-gv3tw]

Worked at Nellis Air Force base and had the pleasure of getting to know the team at the time. General Dan Darnell was the boss and the entire team was awsome. I'll never forget the wonderful times I had watching the team perform over 17 years. I wish the team now and in the future God Speed. Thank you THUNDERBIRDS for all the good you do

[@dalemartindale5372]

My Dad was one of the awesome mechanics that kept those babies flyin' right! 😊 #ThunderbirdDaughter

[@Primus54]

Always great videography and editing, Spencer. Too bad it was a low show, but that’s Spring for you! Cheers ,

[@thomasjunkins6491]

Sharing always with my social media outlets. God bless all of our United States 🇺🇸 service 🙏 members 🙏 🙌

[@808G8GT]

I was at this show.....its was awesome, but.....I wish the thunderbirds and blue angles did a fly by in the super Delta formation. With Seeing both teams fly on the same day.... you can clearly see that the blue angels are a more fine tuned team. Cleaner tighter formations, more different formations and sharper showmanship with the crew and pilots.

[@toddbarber3044]

It was a drag that the grey, cloudy skies came in towards the end, but #6 Angel doing a takeoff, full vertical into an Immelmann was sick!

[@aarongielen5208]

Awesome flying. Beautiful machines.

[@jimowens2283]

Really well done, especially capturing the maintenance team and their precision.

[@DaronTille-zm7sv]

Thank you And God bless you Amen 🙏💖

[@LEXPIX]

Excellent footage. Nicely done.

[@Soundtracks92]

A show for the ages!

[@robertjwilliams3532]

Point Mugu!! My home in the early months of 1964!!😀

[@olgatelichko615]

Ребята, вы супер! Какая красота! Спасибо за отличные видео!

[@ingeborggercke1538]

i can't believe it, what a show!!! Greetings from Germany!!

[@noamatabartabar5520]

It’s Gorgeous and amazing Show god bless all off them.

[@JoseMartinez-pl6vb]

As always you always capture the best Airshow footage!

[@sonnymolina8748]

Absolutely loved it thank you so much for sharing this video so Incredible someday I would love to go to one of the Air Shows

[@amandajoslin-kk5zc]

Goosebumps, these heroes are amazing. It’s breathtaking when you see the Thunderbirds fly.

[@Craig-xe8vv]

Perfect formation!!

[@sjwilloughby-greene8214]

This is off the chain AWESOME. 💙💙💙💙💙💙 ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@billvinson7859]

The flight crews are also the elite. All in step. Attention to detail means everything. Civilians enjoy the show but veterans understand the precision that is needed for accomplishing the mission. ❤

[@amandajoslin-kk5zc]

Definitely, the work that goes into these shows is immense. The flight crews work so hard and are so skilled. When it comes together, it’s breathtaking.

[@sarahunter5568]

Absolutely magnificent❤

[@bernabecaneta6154]

Nice performance thunderberd God Bless you all ways and Blue eagles team

[@川村穣治-b6b]

女性のパイロットさんは、やっぱり、かっこいいですね👍

[@johnleos1687]

Miss America 2024 is a Air Force pilot 🇺🇸

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Once again Spencer you surpass yourself with this excellent footage.

[@leeslentz517]

I went to the Saturday show. See you and Mike in El Centro for winter practice 2024.

[@roccosophie6498]

These, are the best of the best

[@Harp_sealVR]

Someone said the blue angels diamond when they came in for 360! That’s cool!.

[@dougmiller254]

Superb footage and sound.

[@clarabellcutting8745]

I love the Blue Angels

[@StarzzyJJASD]

Red arrows much better

[@MilandWalling-su6gp]

USA!!!!!GOD BLESS YOU ALL! PHENOMENAL WORK AND SKILL. BRAVO!!!!!

[@佐藤祐一郎-b7p]

😮カッコイイ！👍

[@lasanthadesilva4705]

Great airshow.

[@TheSpringYeet]

I remember that I was at that airshow, it was a First for me and very fun. Stupid of me to have not had ear protection thought 😂

[@timothygibbs7351]

Awesome!

[@laneelane]

Too bad it was a low show, but that’s Spring for you! Cheers

[@RANDassociatesinc]

Great job! I was right there next to you. Harder to shoot than it seems! See you at March!

[@afretired09]

Very Nice Video!

[@jenniferdeery5281]

As always, wonderful work Spencer!!! In aviation videos, I'm ALWAYS looking for your name...I know it's going to be the best! (and if you don't mind me saying it-I'm also looking for "AIRSHOW" videos... you both are the best in my mind). Once again-I love your work!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. You've given so many of us so much joy!

[@SOCALAVIATION2K]

Awsome video dude! I see you finally fixed your microphone! Audio is PERFECT!

[@spencerhughes2255]

Thanks. I haven’t changed any of my audio settings. Depending on the weather and time of day, jets can sound different in many ways.

[@SOCALAVIATION2K]

@@spencerhughes2255 hmmm that’s interesting

[@spencerhughes2255]

@@SOCALAVIATION2K Right?

[@oozuwai]

海軍と空軍それぞれに曲芸飛行をする部隊があるのですね😮

[@johnleos1687]

Air Force has 2024 Miss America as a pilot! 🇺🇸 That's like Wonder Woman joining the Thunderbirds! 🇺🇸 🦇🦸 God please continue to bless the United States of America 🙏🇺🇸

[@siouxperb5570]

Miss Colorado, competing for Miss America. But close.

[@johnleos1687]

@@siouxperb5570 😲😎🤠🇺🇸

[@cherylbanquer6514]

I would like to know how close do the planes actually get to each other because it looks like they could shake hands. So much talent and I appreciate their service to our country.

[@trainliker100]

For some maneuvers it is as close as 18 inches. I know. Hard to believe.

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Exactly what i wanted to know!

[@scottoz7891]

18 inches

[@cherylbanquer6514]

@@scottoz7891 wow are you a pilot

[@notaylorhere]

18"

[@GeorgeJansen]

When transition is made to the F35/F22, the displays are going to off the charts. Imagine Static diamonds, deltas, opposings, echelon rolls, burner 270s etc are going to be phoenominal. Absolutely devastatingly beautiful. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@brianschindlbeck2807]

If you don't mind. Could you explain which team is upgrading their jets and approximately when. Chicago gets alternating teams each year and I believe it's Blue Angeles this year.

[@spencerhughes2255]

You aren't gonna see a transition any time soon. I'd love to see the F-22 or F-35 but it would be WAY too expensive. The Thunderbirds will continue using the F-16 for a while.

[@trainliker100]

I was talking to a retired Air Force pilot the other day and asked if he had heard the Navy justification saying "three fourths of the earth is covered by water." Of course, he had. I suggested the next time he heard that he could counter with "And ALL of the earth's surface is covered by air." He had never thought of that and said he can't wait to use it..

[@charlesimwold1429]

More importantly Landing a on a pitching deck with only a 1,000 feet of runway is not like landing on 10,000 feet of runway on terra firma ! if we are checking who has the largest one's I'd say Navy pilots win that argument 7 days a week and twice on Sundays !

[@charlesimwold1429]

US Navy pilots will tell you landing on the deck of and aircraft carrier is the most dangerous thing the do and the only thing more dangerous is landing on an Aircraft Carrier at NIGHT !

[@trainliker100]

@@charlesimwold1429 I know of one who agreed. It was the late Harald Bauer who retired as a U.S. Navy pilot at the rank of Commander. When he was told he would need to qualify on carriers, he said "no thank you." Actually, as he tells it, he said "auf Wiedersehen". He had been a very young pilot in the GERMAN air force in WWII ferrying Heinkel HE162 fighter jets. He was shot down. Long story short, after the war the U.S. Army recruited him, and he then moved to the U.S. Navy. What is most interesting is that long after the war he was at a reunion of veterans talking about how was shot down and wounded in a certain area in Germany. Another fellow said, "You couldn't have been there, we were in control of that area at that time." He answered, "What makes you think I was on your side." It turned out he had finally met up with the American pilot who shot him down. If you want to hear him tell his fascinating story himself, it is on KZbin here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp6top2ubruJga8 I became aware of him when asked to play bugle at his Military Funeral Honors.

[@k-poplover6537]

BRILLIANT

[@jenniferdeery5281]

Thought I'd add another comment...I used to live close enough (San Fernando Valley) to go to Pt Mugu airshows. Always loved them (among other things, I miss the black Phantom...) One of the pluses of course, was the moisture in the air that made for some awesome condensation effects!!! I'm so glad for growing up there when I did (I was 18 in 1968). Got to see so many wonderful things including SR-71 takeoffs from Palmdale AFB facility-including the takeoff around 4:30 am when it did the speed run to Washington DC. I walked a bit from where we parked (a renowned spot to watch SR takeoffs from that facility) so that I was looking right down the runway-with binoculars of course-as it took off headed right towards me, and the view was AWESOME. I also got to see the XB-70 fly a few times at Edwards AFB, including one day two friends and I managed to get to about 200 yards or so on the west side of the main runway to watch a takeoff (we weren't supposed to be there...but this was in the days when Edwards was an "open" base and you could drive around quite a bit) and then managed to be in line with the main, when it came back in to land (over our heads) later in the day along with the T-38 and B-58 chase aircraft. I sure miss those days we spent driving around areas of the base seeing what we could see. I have some nice slides (remember those?) including one shot of a SR-71 and a YF-12 on a ramp area and the YF-12 had the nose section open exposing the radome. My favorite though is a sideview of "Snoopy 2" I think-(a Snoopy image as nose art)- a well known B-58 chase aircraft that among other things did chase for the XB-70 and had an interesting modification-a nose from the YF-12 (I think) when it was used to test their radar. Last, I'll add another nice part of where I lived then...It was near enough to Van Nuys airport which had a Lockheed facility that did rehab work, among other things, on the U-2's. And we were under the downwind leg of the pattern so whenever I heard their wonderful unique engine sound, I'd run out with my binos and watch if I was quick enough. Sometimes I'd just hang out on the railroad tracks, which ran perpendicular to the runways at Van Nuys, and watch aircraft on final, including the occasional U-2 and C-97 (ex B-29). Ahhh...those were the days....

[@jenniferdeery5281]

I didn't mention...I made sure not to include the "no photography allowed" signs in any of my slide images...😊

[@ГАЛИНАБАГАЕВА-щ3г]

Наши русские Витязи и Стрижи ещё лучше выполняют групповой полёт и фигуры пиллотажа!Это только можно видеть!Здорово! С приветом из самой России!

[@olgatelichko615]

А Вы эксперт? Хотя у вас говорят, что ваша армия вторая в мире, только Бахмут в Украине никак не может взять уже несколько месяцев.

[@johnosbourn4312]

Awesome video, Spence!

[@shariwelch9573]

Beautiful !!!😀

[@lucianodesousaleite7332]

fantastic ....

[@069sunny069]

J'aurais vraiment aimée qu'ils fassent un show les 12 ensembles ça aurait été vraiment méga top 😱😱😱

[@surveyordave]

how cool that BOTH teams were there for the same show!!

[@НазимБесленеев]

Очень круто, респект вам ребята.... черкес

[@shariwelch9573]

Keep up the great work.

[@Darek-ir1cs]

Dla takich chwill warto Żyć, Dziękuję Piloci.❤

[@OurGodIsLove]

Amazing!

[@rommall1263]

Чётко отработали! Молодцы👍

[@dijanamustedanagic59]

Wow👏👍🍀

[@Lefty130]

So good 🏎️

[@RLDenham]

The weather was less than ideal; however the demos & videoography was top notch.

[@dalemartindale5372]

Don't let the rivalry fool you! My childhood memories include post show hangar BBQs with both teams. Actual quote from my T-bird Dad... "Hey Navy! If you drop a hot dog on our pretty white floor we're gonna hand you a mop and you can show us how well you can swap a deck!" Dad always said that the only difference between the teams was the paint on the planes. ❤ #ThunderbirdDaughter

[@MONSTERDR451]

asif a falling hd would ever reach the deck,,,

[@markanderson4163]

going to see them both in Pensacola in November...I'm a biased Navy vet, but the Blues just do it a little better...been watching them since I was about 6...both groups have amazing pilots and crews.

[@danfreeman9079]

Excellent!

[@lawrencelee2558]

Hey Spencer, I went Friday and Saturday and we had great weather.

[@lawrencelee2558]

We were parked right in front of the F-35

[@VinhMai-xf7vz]

Amen💛

[@bernabecaneta6154]

♥️♥️♥️✌️👊

[@saijaicheunarom5388]

Wow....

[@steveelson2999]

Sooo much talent, sooo much precision, these guys and gals deserve soo much credit. And please explain to me why we want more of the draft Dodger?? 😢

[@joenop3393]

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are Soooooo Much more Awesome!

[@nsdlsarn]

Just great

[@bonniefranklin6097]

Wow. Double Splendid.

[@jasonlee-os1qi]

Best of the Best of the Best...

[@nikosagen8922]

Canggih 💪💪💪

[@ThatGen2Taco]

Awesome video! At 26:17 is that called a cobra maneuver?

[@Helloimmisterman]

I was there

[@paulseale8409]

Go on you guys, punch a hole in the sky!!

[@teris8233]

I do not get impressed easily, however this was amazing choreography from the start. I commend these pilots

[@maritzaferretti1591]

Son genial tanto las mujeres como los hombres

[@donovanbroussard2425]

Today is my 16th Birthday!

[@saijaicheunarom5388]

Lief spannend....✓✓✓

[@tammykimble7249]

Like 4x8 feet apart in alignment fucking awesome

[@eduardoromeroaguirre4406]

Blue Angels the best. FLY NAVY!!

[@Dre160YT]

I love the blue angels the thunderbirds are second plce