When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the New Orleans area in 2005, it set in motion a grand finale event in 2009. When the storm hit NAS New Orleans as the story goes, a large part of a cache of...
Koninklijke Luchtmacht (RNLAF) Leeuwarden Open Dagen 2006 2021 is the Squadron’s 75 anniversary! As the Blue Angels have retired all of their Legacy Hornets and their KC-130T in 2020, let’s take a look back at their F/A-18A and B...
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ Blue Angels have retired all of their Legacy aircraft during the 2020 calendar year. Gone is the Marines KC-130T “Fat Albert Airlines” transport, as well as the F/A-18A/B/C/D Hornets. New aircraft in the...
The United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue Angels, recently flew their “sundown” voyage with their F/A-18 Legacy Hornets. The term “Legacy” refers to early model McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 model A/B/C/D Hornets. The Team is...
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, honored frontline COVID-19 first responders and essential workers with formation flights over New York City, New Jersey and Philadelphia on April...
Interview and most questions by Nicole Cloutier. Additional questions by Mike Colaner On May 10th I had the pleasure of watching the Blue Angels arrive to Tampa before the MacDill Airfest. For this interview, I was assigned Blue...
The headlining U.S. Navy Blue Angels returned to Stewart International Airport on July 1 and 2 from their last appearance there in June 2003, arriving at the New Windsor, NY airport on Monday prior to the show. Normally following...
On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...
For all the people in Congress in Washington DC…. THANKS…. You are screwing up an American tradition. If any of you read this, please drop me a note. I’d love to chat. Now that I got that out of...
Every year 11,000,000 people look into the skies at airshows and see six blue and gold F-18s performing precision aerobatics representing the best the United States as well as the Navy and Marines have to offer. The Blue Angels...
The old English proverb that “all [good] things must come to an end…” sums up what occurs every November at NAS Pensacola Florida. The 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow was the latest of a long line of grand finales...
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