>>On Sep 15, 5:16 pm, "Sparkle"
spark.com> wrote:>>> Get a life and pay your taxes.
>>>
>>> Just because we signed up to pay =A314billion for the Olympics doesn't me=
>>an we
>>> get to pick and choose how they are presented.
>>
>>Yes it does.
>>
>>The Olympics in theory at least and certainly in principle should be
>>free of politics yet already the ideological left can't keep their
>>fingers off.
>
>So how many Olympic opening ceremonies since say, the 1960's, have been
>blessed with displays by the host country's air force's aerobatic display
>team? You can list them by either host country or year, I don't mind.
well the Thunderbird display team, a bunch of F16s in the USAF, helped open
the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and Im convinced I remember something
similar at the LA games in 84 (maybe the blue angels instead).
in Sydney 2000, they had an F-111 do a fuel dump and burn (its a typical Oz
plane display) for the closing ceremony
and hey you can watch it here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2IOjKeyKs&mode=related&search=
and I also think the Frecce Tricolori (the italian version of the Red Arrows)
did do a special thing for Turin 2006 games. (had the olympic rings in smoke
in the sky I recall seeing pictures of)
so of the nations who have national aerobatic display teams, or display
planes, who have held the Olympics recently, well there seems to be some
vague correlation that they might get used in some capacity for the
ceremonies
Awavey
