Amigo Airsho: Blue Angels perform for about 
50,000 at Biggs Army Airfield; watch video

Six blue jets twirled skyward, assuming their signature diamond formation with wings inches apart, and rocketed over the crowd at Fort Bliss' Biggs Army Airfield.
The Blue Angels had returned to El Paso.
Saturday's Amigo Airsho was the first time the Blue Angels, known as the Blues, performed in El Paso in 14 years. Organizers said they had worked for two years to ensure that logistics were in place for the Navy's flight demonstration squadron.
The Blues' transport plane, a C-130T Hercules nicknamed Fat Albert, started the show by demonstrating different passes and a backward taxi as ACDC blared from loudspeakers.
Six F-A/18 jet fighter-bombers then roared off the runway, reaching speeds of up to 600 mph during upside-down and twisting aerobatic maneuvers.
Dust kicked up as the Blues screeched across the ground then sharply ascended, leaving contrails in their paths.
About 50,000 people attended the 30th annual Airsho, said Mike Guerra, Airsho  board president.
The return of the Blues had a lot to do with that, he added.
"The Blue Angels' shows are absolutely unique," Guerra said. "The grace, the charisma, the way that they choreograph those are absolutely amazing. It astonishes me to watch these guys, to see them perform and the precision moves that they do and how they fly so close together."
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