The Patriots Jet Team
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performed San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:39:22 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

One jet produced a red smoke trail
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:40:08 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The four jet team flew a tight formation
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:41:46 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

Blue, white and red smoke lent a patriotic mode
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:41:56 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

They performed over a bay filled with boats
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:43:40 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The sun glinted off them as turned in unison
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:45:08 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

A single jet flew low over the assembled boats
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:45:56 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

A finale presented with colored smoke
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The Patriots Jet Team   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:46:10 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

Pelicans
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took flight to escape the noise San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 14:58:06 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The Blue Angels lead plane inspected the bay
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The inspection plane encountered fog
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A flotilla awaited the Blue Angel performance
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Some watched sensibly from shore
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Scoma's Restaurant fishing boat   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:04:24 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The Noelani tugboat from Honolulu, Hawaii
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San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:06:16 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

Recording instruments on the pier end of Van Ness Avenue
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San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:06:56 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

A small sloop
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motored among larger ships to watch San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:11:54 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The first Blue Angel appeared with a roar
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A second jet appeared
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Assembeled they circled the bay
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Over the Bay Bridge
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and over a watching flotilla The Blue Angels abreviated 6 minute show   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:14:44 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

The six jets flew into the wind
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Just inside the Golden Gate Bridge
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they turned The Blue Angels abreviated 6 minute show   •  San Francisco Fleet Week 2009, Air Show   •  Hornblower Cruise on San Francisco Bay, California   •  (Photo posted Monday 12 October 2009)   •  (Photo taken 15:18:34 Saturday 10 October 2009)   •  © 2009 Bryan Costales

They began to emit a smoke trail
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They banked as one
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They powered eastward over the bay
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And so ended the show early, called off because of fog
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A sheriff boat kept the flotilla out of the flyway
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One man had viewed the show from a rowboat
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And the gulls could return to their quiet search for food
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