{"id":18778,"date":"2015-01-07T03:27:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2015-01-07T03:27:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:27:31","slug":"blue-angels-2015-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/blue-angels-2015-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Angels 2015 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bluangel.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/blue-angels-air-shows.html\">Blue Angels Air Show<\/a>\u00a0launches\u00a0the 2015 season in a place near &amp; dear to the hearts of the talented pilots who fly magnificent machines (modified Boeing F\/A-18 Hornets and Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules.) The\u00a0free-to-see\u00a0El Centro NAF Air Facility celebration\u00a0invites the public\u00a0to a pre-show party, fireworks and food at Hangar 6 on March 13,\u00a0and the air show on Saturday, March 14. Navy Air Facility El Centro is\u00a0the winter home of the Blue Angels which explains why\u00a0the first show of the season always takes place there. Drawing a crowd of approximately 35,000, it is the largest single-day event in the Imperial Valley.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013\u00a0the Blue Angels\u00a0were forced to\u00a0cancel 33 air shows throughout the nation due to military budget cuts. They returned in 2014\u00a0much to the delight of planners of San Francisco Fleet Week which features the aerial display as a key element in their week-long celebration\u00a0each Fall. A total of 16 officers voluntarily serve with the Blue Angels, including three tactical (fighter or fighter\/attack) jet pilots, two support officers and one Marine Corps C-130 pilot to relieve departing members. Source:\u00a0blueangels.navy.mil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Blue Angels Air Show\u00a0launches\u00a0the 2015 season in a place near &amp; dear to the hearts of the talented pilots who fly magnificent machines (modified Boeing F\/A-18 Hornets and Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules.) The\u00a0free-to-see\u00a0El Centro NAF Air Facility celebration\u00a0invites the public\u00a0to a pre-show party, fireworks and food at Hangar 6 on March 13,\u00a0and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}