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Watch A Blue Angel Jet Overhead & Completely Shock This Crowd At The Air & Water Show

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Aug 21, 2017 9:47PM

The Air & Water Show can be a white-knuckle experience even for those of us who abstain; but if you actually went down at the waterfront this weekend and put yourself in the thick of those sound-barrier-stressing speeds, it can really throttle up the anxiety—especially, say, if a screeching Blue Angel jets by directly overhead, catching you unaware.

Check out the video above, uploaded by Brendan Peterson, from this past Sunday's round of aero-spectacle. It kinda makes you smile to see the reactions morph from startled to excited.

You can see some of Paterson's other videos from the weekend, including a less alarmed reaction shot and a nifty one that moves away from the crowd and follows the plane over the lake. But the eye-popper above is our favorite.

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