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This month's cover:
Main: In a detail from this year's Homecoming poster, Captain Asra "Cougar" Kron, Angel 7, waves to the Blue Diamond, welcoming the Hornets to the demo squadron at last. Inset: Alpha Jets of the Patrouille de France perform a smoke check.
Main cover story:
A New Season Starts: Blue Angels Homecoming 2018
After two postponements, this year's Blue Angels Homecoming happened on
the weekend of February 10 and 11, at NAS Miramar, traditionally marking
the new season start for the Navy Flight Demonstration Team. This year,
the Blues proudly flew their new F/A-18C Hornets for the first time,
launching the first operational version of the upcoming Shana Carpool
Aircraft commercial F/A-18C and F/A-18D Hornets.
Link to the complete photo coverage of the two day event in the story.
Check the Homecoming Raffle results for the stock F/A-18C Hornet in this story and also below in "The Bug is Back!" Quite a surprise!
Inset cover story:
Armée de l'Air: French Air Power in Second Life
EPAA 20.300/312 (Equipe de Présentation de l'Armée de l'Air 20.300 et 20.312) aka the Patrouille de France in Second Life is the Armée de l'Air ambassador squadron and together with training squadron GE 314 (Groupement-Ecole 314 "Christian Martel") share BA 701 as their home. Recently, the squadrons were relocated near Paris and got a small overseas base with open skies practice characteristics at Gordon Regional Airport in the small Sharp Continent.
Few and Proud in Third Fleet: Upcoming USMC Squadrons
An illustrated guide to new squadrons assigned to the United States Marine Corps detachment in Third Fleet. VMM-262 The Flying Tigers, equipped with MV-22 Ospreys, and HMH-466 Wolfpack operating the MH-90 MHF (NH Industries NH-90), both stationed at MCAF Quantico, the marines air facility that together with MCB Quantico will be inaugurated next March.
The Wild Blue Yonder! SL USAF Thunderbirds
After a wrong foot start, the USAF Thunderbirds are back in Second Life with a more solid structure and a purposeful leadership that may in time lead to the establishment of the United States Air Force modern day counterpart in SL, but will certainly represent the Air Force from the get go in no uncertain terms. With a small base at CinSal International Airport, the T-Birds rise from the ashes under Lieutenant Colonel Volt Voltaire's command.
The Bug is Back! F/A-18C Hornet
Celebrating the Blue Angels first demonstration with the new Boeing
F/A-18C Hornet, developed for them by Shana Carpool Aircraft, and as a
bonus on the occasion of the 2018 Homecoming Air Show at NAS Miramar
where the Bug will be officially launched, we will be having a do over raffle of
a stock version F/A-18C similar to the ones soon available to the
general public. The winner of the raffle held during Homecoming weekend graciously returned the voucher allowing for another person to have the chance to win the new Bug!
NEPTUNE - The magazine of the United States Navy Third Fleet in Second Life
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