ブルーインパルス、観光名所周遊　万博開幕日のルート発表―空自

　航空自衛隊は３日、大阪・関西万博開幕日の１３日に曲技飛行チーム「ブルーインパルス」が行う記念飛行のルートを公表した。大阪府内の観光名所などを約２０分間周遊した後、正午から会場となる大阪市の人工島「夢洲」上空で展示飛行を行う。
　空自によると、ブルーインパルスは午前１１時４０分ごろに関西空港を離陸。大阪湾沿いに北上し、大阪市の観光名所「通天閣」や大阪城、１９７０年万博のシンボル「太陽の塔」（吹田市）、枚方市の遊園地「ひらかたパーク」を通過する経路で編隊飛行を実施。正午ごろから夢洲上空で約１５分間、万博のテーマをイメージした演技を行う。（2025/04/03-18:42）

The Air Self-Defense Force said Thursday that its Blue Impulse aerobatics team will fly over tourist spots in Osaka Prefecture on April 13 to celebrate the day's opening of the 2025 World Exposition.
   The aerobatic team will make a performance flight over the Expo venue, the artificial island of Yumeshima in the western Japan prefecture's namesake capital, after flying over the prefecture for about 20 minutes.
   According to the ASDF, the aerobatics team is set to depart Kansai International Airport around 11:40 a.m. The team will head north along Osaka Bay and fly in formation over Tsutenkaku Tower, Osaka Castle, the Tower of the Sun monument, which was the symbol of the 1970 Osaka Expo, and amusement park Hirakata Park.
   The team is scheduled to be in the skies above Yumeshima around noon and make a 12-minute performance flight based on the Expo theme, "Designing Future Society for Our Lives."
   Given that the Kansai region including Osaka has no ASDF base with a runway, the ASDF considered having the Blue Impulse team depart from a base in the prefecture of Gifu or Aichi in the neighboring Chubu region.