And, sure enough, something was glittering, up there in the sky, something was shimmering, in the blue air of summer we saw it clearly, whatever it was.
There is even provision for canceling Blue Angels air shows at Lynchburg and Virginia Beach.
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However, in 1956 it was resurrected as a two-day service called Blue Label Air and continues to this day, along with a host of other time-sensitive options.
In fact, the highest-ranking career public affairs officers in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps are Colonels, while the Navy at least has traditionally enjoyed one 1-star admiral leading its community. (Not surprisingly, the Navy enjoys disproportionately more press coverage of its aircraft carriers, fleet weeks, Blue Angels air shows and the spotlight in Hollywood relative to other services).
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But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.
The military calls it purple, purple meeting, you know, you've got green for Army, and khaki for the Marines and light blue for - the Air Force, and blue for the Navy.
The Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels will cancel air show appearances.
The sky is blue, the air is crisp and the leaves are aflame with gold, crimson and orange.
The inspectors are also focusing on commercial airlines Shaheen and Air Blue.
They found that gravity waves "break" on the surfaces of planes, just like ocean waves breaking on the beach, causing much of the turbulence that occurs out of the blue in clear air.
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And the biggest acts are the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds, the precision flying teams whose performances were abruptly canceled April 1, along with the Army skydiving team, military flyovers, demonstration flights and even static displays.
Next on his shopping list will likely be majority ownership in Sportsnet, an all-sports cable channel on which he can air his Blue Jays' games.
The artisan puzzle-maker, who has been hand-cutting jigsaws since 1952, said the air turned blue when the puzzle collapsed to the floor of his Brewers Quay workshop in April.
The Q, N, E, F, and L lines, as well as most of the trains on the J and Z lines, already have models with electronic map displays, bright blue seats and frosty air conditioning.
If a cooler temperature is selected for the interior, they turn blue, while choosing heated air switches the illumination to red.
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Keene has white hair, blue eyes, and an air of plainspoken geniality.
The U.S. Navy on Tuesday announced it was canceling all the air shows its Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron had scheduled for the rest of the year.
Ritz-Carlton's use of cobalt-blue glasses in its hotel dining rooms can be traced back to Boston in the 1920s, for example, where window glass that had been imported from Europe and turned blue in the New England air was a symbol of wealth.
The water tower is still standing and you can read the blue lettering on it from the air.
Quinn moves around the stage with an air of bemused, blue-collar exasperation under the direction of Rebecca A. Trent.
Owners inevitably paint the exteriors in a cheerful riot of bright red, green, orange, blue and yellow and line the un-air-conditioned cabs with teakwood to keep them cooler in India's searing heat.
Tom Frosch, the Blue Angels lead pilot and team commander, announced the news late Tuesday at the team's Pensacola Naval Air Station headquarters while standing in front of the one of the iconic blue-and-gold jets.
The air surrounding the sarcophagus, shining with the blue fire of the mosaics, which once contained the embalmed body of the Empress, is a worthy dream of an ardently religious imagination.
While air pollution has remained a nagging problem since then, Beijingers have learned to live with the situation, and there have been enough blue sky days in the capital city to keep the Air Quality Index (AQI) out of the news until last week that is.
This means having a nuclear deterrent, a deployable army division, a blue-water navy with two aircraft carriers, and an air force with fighters and deep-strike jets.
The ice generally dissipates long before the aircraft lands, but there have been documented cases of blue ice clinging to aircraft surfaces until the aircraft reaches warmer air on approach to landing, then the ice may separate from the aircraft and fall to earth.
And finally, a word of warning: the air will almost certainly be tinged a delicate shade of nicotine blue.
The lamp's flame burned with a blue tinge when flammable gases were present and extinguished if oxygen in the air dropped to dangerous levels.
"I was standing outside having a bit of fresh air and as I turned round I saw this very bright blue light which was dimming, " he said.
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