Wing Wave From an Angel
The Peace River in southwest Florida is usually as calm as its name suggests. Every couple of years or so, it’s a quiet place to watch angels. Well, not your average angels since these angels are performing at the Florida International Air Show at Punta Gorda, on Florida’s southwest coast, right where the Peace River empties into Charlotte Harbor. These angels are very fast and very noisy and happen to be flying jet planes. The US Navy’s Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Team draw crowds wherever they perform and Punta Gorda is no exception. The grandstands and the flight-line are packed with thousands of spectators whenever the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, the US Air Flight Demonstration Team, perform here. US Navy Blue Angels - Photo USN Mecki and Agi, friends visiting from Germany, were accompanying us on a trip up the Peace river to try out a waterfront restaurant tucked in among the Spanish moss draped live-oaks that line the river. I had recently overhauled my outboard...