115K views · 1.3K reactions | Ready for air show season?? | Blue Angels Association | Facebook

Our first U.S. Navy Blue Angels aircraft has joined the Air and Space collection. Hear from the pilot who flew the F/A-18C Hornet on its final flight to the Udvar-Hazy Center, Museum deputy director and naval aviator Chris Browne, and curator of U.S. Navy history Laurence Burke on this exciting new member of our collection. | National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

207K views · 3.8K shares | U.S. Navy Blue Angels history in flight! On Friday, the team took to the skies with one of its jets and its first two performing aircraft, the F6F Hellcat and the F8F Bearcat, before its first airshow in El Centro, California, on Saturday. Up next: The NAWS China Lake Air Show this weekend. | U.S. Navy | Facebook