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Salisbury Resident Gets Ride of Lifetime

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A Salisbury resident got the flight of a lifetime.

Jeff Merritt yesterday was one of three VIP’s who took a 45 minute flight with the No. 7 Blue Angels jet.

It was an F/A 18 Hornet flown by Captain Jeff Kuss who has over 15-hundred hours in the air with the Blue Angels.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the flight took the three VIP’s through the twists and turns that the Blue Angels use in their act.

The 56-year old Merritt told the paper that when he got the invited several months ago he could hardly contain his excitement.

After the flight, he added, that it may not have had air conditions but that, ”It felt good.

The other two VIP riders were Brandy Sherrer from Baltimore and Emily Lampa from television station…
WMDT 47.

The Blue Angels will be part of this weekend’s Air Show in Ocean City.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.