The U.S. Navy Blue Angels introduced new officers becoming a member of the workforce for the 2023 air present season together with its first ever girl to fly its F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
The workforce has had feminine personnel supporting different components of the squadron akin to the huge C-130J Super Hercules, however by no means within the cockpit of its marquee jets.
Lt. Amanda Lee, name signal “Stalin,” of Mounds View, Minnesota, at the moment assigned to the “Gladiators” of Strike Force Squadron 106 will pave the best way, changing certainly one of two present members on the workforce. She’s already an illustration pilot for the U.S. Navy Rhino Demo Team flying the Super Hornet.
She’s a 2013 graduate of Old Dominion University, and can be joined by Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Zimmerman as new Super Hornet pilots subsequent season as a part of the core six jets that carry out across the nation.
“We had an overwhelming number of applicants from all over the globe this year,” mentioned Capt. Brian Kesselring, commanding officer and flight chief of the Blue Angels, that are based mostly at Naval Air Station Pensacola. “We look forward to training our fantastic new team members, passing on the torch, and watching the incredible things this team will accomplish in 2023.”
The Blue Angels, which had been initially shaped in 1946, together with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds make a number of stops in Florida in the course of the air present season, which runs from March-November every year.
For the rest of 2022, the Blue Angels will return Oct. 22-23 to NAS Jacksonville for the NAS JAX Air Show after which conclude at their season as they at all times do with the Nov. 11-12 NAS Pensacola Homecoming Air Show. The Thunderbirds return yet one more time in 2022 for the Central Florida Air & Space Show in Sanford on Oct. 29-30.
Lt. Lee’s first probability Florida efficiency flights gained’t be till the workforce’s 2023 schedule kicks off, and the Blue Angels have six Florida stops subsequent yr.
They embrace April 1-2 on the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, April 15-16 on the NAS Key West Southernmost Air Spectacular at NAS Key West, April 29-30 on the Fort Lauderdale Air Show, July 8 on the Pensacola Beach Air Show, Oct. 21-22 on the Jacksonville Sea and Sky Air Show and the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show on Nov. 3-4 at NAS Pensacola.
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