Blue Angels: The US Navy's Flight Demonstration Team, 1946 to the Present

A thorough photographic history of the US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team. Part of the Legends of Warfare series.

Since 1946, the world-famous US Navy Blue Angels flying-demonstration team has performed in airshows in the United States and around the world. This book details the origins of the team when created by the US Navy, as well as describing the different models of aircraft that the team has flown during its seventy-year history.

Inside these pages:

• Propeller-driven F6F-5 Hellcat and F8F Bearcat • Jet-powered F9F-8 Cougar, F11F-1 Tiger, F-4 Phantom, and A-4 Skyhawk • Present-day F/A-18 Hornet • Graphic and photographic descriptions of some of the team’s signature maneuvers that are performed during a Blue Angels airshow, in stunning imagery

© 2024 Schiffer Military History (E-bog): 9781507301746

Release date

E-bog: 2. juli 2024