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

The #BlueAngels Diamond is rolling! Our #1-#4 pilots, known as the Diamond, have been practicing their take-off maneuvers over El Centro, California! This is the Diamond Burner Loop from the perspective of our Slot pilot, Major Frank Zastoupil! The Blue Angels start winter training by flying further apart from one another in what appears to be a wider formation than what you would see at an air show. This wider formation allows more space between the jets as maneuvers are introduced to the new p