{"id":489488,"date":"2026-10-08T18:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489488\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:38:12","slug":"blue-angels-to-practice-for-san-francisco-fleet-week-air-shows-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489488\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Angels to practice for San Francisco Fleet Week air shows \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are expected to take to the skies Thursday for a practice session ahead of three straight days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/san-francisco-fleet-week-2026-events-schedules\/4144459\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Fleet Week<\/a> air shows.<\/p>\n<p>People in San Francisco, specifically the north side of the city, will likely hear and spot the fighter jets buzzing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Fleet Week air shows, headlined by the Blue Angels, are scheduled to take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Angels are known for extreme aerobatics precision, flying as close as about 18 inches apart while reaching speeds of up to 700 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Angels officers and enlisted team members will hold jet-side interviews at Oakland&#8217;s airport before Thursday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Angels did not perform during last year&#8217;s Fleet Week due to the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Navy Blue Angels are expected to take to the skies Thursday for a practice session ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-489488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}