Super Fund sites – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png Super Fund sites – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 A Short History ofthe Costs of Military Air Shows- Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/short-history-ofthe-costs-military-air-shows-squandering-planets-increasingly-scarce-fossil/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:24:37 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/short-history-ofthe-costs-military-air-shows-squandering-planets-increasingly-scarce-fossil/ by Dr Gary G Kohls

Pilots from the US Department of the Navy returned from World War II flush with pride at winning the war in the Pacific. So, in 1946,the Navy established a base of naval air operations on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico where the Blue Angels began doing air showsfor the public, partly for recruiting future pilots and partly for raising unit morale. Within a few years the US Air Force established a base in Texas, where the first USAF Thunderbird team began doing air shows in 1953.]]> by Dr Gary G Kohls

Pilots from the US Department of the Navy returned from World War II flush with pride at winning the war in the Pacific. So, in 1946,the Navy established a base of naval air operations on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico where the Blue Angels began doing air showsfor the public, partly for recruiting future pilots and partly for raising unit morale.

Within a few years the US Air Force established a base in Texas, where the first USAF Thunderbird team began doing air shows in 1953.

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