US Navy Blue Angels Preflight Walk Down and Startup - Cleveland National Airshow 2014

Watch the highly choreographed "walk down" preflight routine as the Blue Angel pilots climb into their F-18 Hornets, start them up, and taxi out for takeoff at the 2014 Cleveland National Airshow at Burke Lakefront Airport. You will notice that Blue Angel #5 has trouble starting his engine and quickly swaps to the spare #7 jet further back on the ramp.
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[@northtexasskies3243]

5:19 my favorite part of the startups

[@julianlanda4940]

Love how the cmd waits patiently for his team so they can perform safely. Shout out to the crew that stopped everything to make sure the jets are good

[@TomasAWalker53]

I noticed that too. then heard one of the jets spooling up. My quess is they may have had a battery start snag and commenced road side assistance.

[@stereokid]

The blue painted jets look so amazing

[@Polishboy16]

the blue angels where you will see trainee 1st classes lol.

[@williamfreeman739]

Love listening to those F/A 18’s Startup

[@MrPalaad]

Old #7 leave up to the Navy if a back up plan is needed. Go Blue Angles.

[@duuurs]

Cdr tom needs to work on his parade steps

[@user-rn9pq8tz1n]

蓝天，白云，战鹰，飞行员......一切都是那麼精彩 !

[@charmaewaide8596]

They are absolutely amazing and beautiful and nothing but wonderful love watching them you go boys You HAVE NOTHING BUT BAD ASS SKILL THEY DESERVE EVERY THING BUT GOOD and thank you to there family's especially to the wives for watching them do this for us THANK YOU i don't think they hear that enough you are married to a real bad ass 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 i will always stand for red white and blue and our eagle 🥰🥰🥰😘🇱🇷🦅🦅

[@duuurs]

Long live the legacy hornet ❤️

[@nancysmith2389]

Totally .

[@stevenpeterson2752]

Will the demo be uploaded too?

[@aumarigan]

There's no smoke effects during these staetups anymore?

[@reidsoria3761]

What happened to Blue Angel 2?

[@estercolorado1787]

The ground performance is my my favorite part of the blue Angel's show.

[@user-rn9pq8tz1n]

蓝色和黄色搭配，又科学，又神秘，又静谧。

[@1111pianoman]

did he need a jumpstart?...was that AAA?...

[@nancysmith2389]

Hmmm. Salute. Spock doesn't apply. Silver surfers do.

[@pizzasubs]

Ok this is going to sound screwy but has the pickup truck always been part of the process at the very beginning of each show, other than that just like it has been for the plus 20 years, everything else is still always done the same way......as the video progressed, beginning to think the truck was there only because they had to check something on one of the jets before it left, other than that, really beginning to think now the truck is not part of the routine. Then finially I saw that something with #5 just wasn't right so they shut her down and the pilot climbed out of it, thats a shame when something like that happens but always better safe than sorry.......then out of nowhere, a replacement came in from the left to take the place of the brokendown Angel......

[@AirshowStuffVideos]

The truck only came out when BA5 couldn't get it going on cue, to either troubleshoot it or like in this case help him shut it down and speed over the #7 to fire it up.

[@ericturner4850]

wait how did 7 jets get there if theres 6 pilots

[@blakkjedi7476]

@@ericturner4850 the narrator is #7. He, along with Crew Chief #7 fly to the show site and get everything set up the day before the team gets there. The 7 jet is also a spare for the demo in case there is an issue with one of the other jets.

[@coolbeans1984]

what are they doing when each jet starts rolling? seems they all do some mickey ears thing punches in the air and some random hand signs upon rolling. anyone know?

[@SassyRailfan]

They have to do preflight checks of the rudders and flaps, and the controls in the cockpit. It's protocol to make sure that everything works like it should before take off. Their crew chiefs and other techs do the rest of the inspection of the plane, like looking for cracks on the plane, or anything else that might affect the plane.

[@AlvinGuoSubscribe]

Its gang signs

[@robertdigby4504]

@@SassyRailfan wow your clueless. If anyone knows or has been around fighter pilots they are just hamming it up for the crowd

[@SassyRailfan]

@@robertdigby4504 YOU’RE CLUELESS!!!!!! It is not just part of the show it is a requirement to make sure nothing happens! If not there would be lots of disasters. Who’s the clueless one now, jackass who actually lacks brain cells when it comes to safety procedures??? There I said it! SAFETY PROCEDURES! Clueless brain cell lacking idiot!

[@robertdigby4504]

@@SassyRailfan clearly you are they were talking about the hand gestures the pilots were making when they were taxiing out. Every fighter pilot does it they are gaming it up. Hell we all did it. You should stick to something you know about or at least read the persons question and think about it. Having been a fighter pilot I do know what I’m talking about you should get back in your kitchen and do something you know about clueless

[@nancysmith2389]

The Airforce has no idea what we could if we wanted to. LOL

[@yxeaviationphotog]

Boss was a bit wobbly going up that ladder!

[@user-mz8iq2gt1d]

Колин Канкель apparently, on the eve of too much took on the chest

[@rinzler9775]

a bit embarrassing having to get the roadside assistance - something allways fouls up on demo day - lol

[@MelodyJ_123]

Better to be safe than sorry 😉

[@nancysmith2389]

baa baa blacksheep

[@t.san8034]

Little robots trained ?! Only even laughing... 🤖🤖🤖 😂😂😂

[@charmaewaide8596]

wow for you to say that NO HONEY THAT'S CALLED TRAINING let's take a guess your not a real American??

[@nancysmith2389]

I am not a killer. However, when I got mad enough. It was fun to send a lot of silver surfers their way.

[@kinch613]

This was under Obama as CINC when jets broke down as a matter of routine and military aviation suffered its worse crash period! We now have parts and money and the jets are flying! At one time nearly half of all USMC F-18s were not airworthy!

[@dennismccort5975]

Don't blame Obama. Blame Congress who passed the money bills.

[@kinch613]

Dennis Mccort I blame both but he was CINC so he’s the tip of the spear! He led ZERO efforts to make our military stronger and more combat effective!

[@marquesetucker6854]

Dude...shut up, your comment shows that you literally know nothing about Naval/Marine Corps Aviation.

[@seancampbell9896]

Great pilots, cringeworthy routine

[@djerikward]

Bunch of uptight robots....just get in the damn plane and go 😂