Sully Set to Soar with Blue Angels

Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the Danville pilot known for
safely landing a disabled US Airways jet in the Hudson River in 2009, will be
riding along with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels Wednesday.

On his website, www.sullysullenberger.com, the famed pilot wrote
earlier this week that he had been invited to take a ride as a passenger in a
Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet to help kick off the annual Fleet Week celebration
in San Francisco.

"As you can imagine, I jumped at the chance," he wrote.

Sullenberger said he will be joined at San Francisco International
Airport by youths who are members of the Experimental Aircraft
Association's Young Eagles program, who will get to meet Blue Angels pilots.

Sullenberger saved the lives of all 155 people on board US Airways
Flight 1549 on Jan, 15, 2009, after a flock of birds disabled the plane's
engines, forcing him to land the plane in the water.

He was named co-chair of the Young Eagles program along with his
co-pilot on the 2009 flight.

He said on his public Facebook page that he has not flown in a
fighter jet since 1979, calling the fly-along one of the "opportunities that
thrill me as though I were a boy again."

The Blue Angels will be rehearsing this week prior to air shows on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday over San Francisco and the Bay.

-- Bay City News

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