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July 13, 2022

Blue Angels’ F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets Taking Care With Seattle Event

Seven Jets, Millions of Fans, and a Malcontent

Seattle’s annual Seafair is a city-wide hootenanny celebrating all things maritime. The summer festival comprises eight-weeks of neighborhood events which culminate in the annual Torchlight Parade—a nighttime extravaganza that draws upward of three-hundred-thousand spectators—and the famed Lake Washington hydroplane races. By sea and by land, Seafair revelers demonstrate en masse the effects a few weeks of sunshine can have on a populace habituated to rain. Yet for all Seafair’s nautical and terrestrial delights, the party wouldn’t be complete without the Blue Angels flashing across the clear(ish) skies of the Puget Sound August.

Giddy-up, Giddy-up, Giddy-up 429 …

Queensland—Australia’s northeastern-most and second-largest state—will take delivery of three new Bell 429 helicopters for Queensland Police Service’s POLAIR fleet. The helicopters—which are slated for delivery in late 2023–will be used to patrol southeast Queensland and support crime fighting efforts in the community. The Queensland Police Service will join the New South Wales Police—their neighbors to the south—as Bell 429 operators, with the latter having commenced operations of its trio of new Bell 429 helicopters last year.