The Blue Angels is the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron.

The Blue Angels ' six demonstration pilots fly the F / A-18 Hornet in more than 70 shows at 34 locations throughout the United States each year, where they still employ many of the same practices and techniques used in their aerial displays in 1946.

The Blue Angels also visit more than 50, 000 people a show season ( March through November ) in schools and hospitals.

Since 1946, the Blue Angels have flown for more than 260 million spectators.

The mission of the Blue Angels is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting, and credibly represent Navy and Marine Corps aviation to the United States and its Armed Forces to America and other countries.

The Blue Angels flying in a Delta Formation at Miramar, San Diego in 2011

The Blue Angels ' show season runs each year from March until November.

During their aerobatic demonstration, the Blues fly six F / A-18 Hornet aircraft, split into the Diamond Formation ( Blue Angels 1 through 4 ) and the Lead and Opposing Solos ( Blue Angels 5 and 6 ).

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The official Blue Angels insignia was designed by then team leader Lt. Cmdr.

The Blue Angels use a United States Marine Corps C-130T Hercules, nicknamed " Fat Albert ", for their logistics, carrying spare parts, equipment, and to carry support personnel between shows.

The officer selection process requires pilots and support officers ( flight surgeon, events coordinator, maintenance officer, supply officer, and public affairs officer ) wishing to become Blue Angels to apply formally via their chain-of-command, with a personal statement, letters of recommendation and flight records.

There have been female and racial minority staff officers as official Blue Angel members, in support of the Blue Angels recruiting for the Navy and Marine Corps.

Members of the 2012 U. S. Navy Blue Angels are:

" His replacement is the Blue Angels ' previous CO, Captain Greg McWherter.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

Belgian Blue cattle were first used as a milk and beef breed.

Blue shorts were retained, but the socks were for the first time red, with a white flash.

The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.

The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was LT Tamara Schnurr, as a member of the 2001 team.

For the 1957 show season, the Blue Angels transitioned to the supersonic Grumman F11F-1 Tiger, first flying the short-nosed, and then the long-nosed versions.

On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.

Also in 1986, LCDR Donnie Cochran, joined the Blue Angels as the first African-American Naval Aviator to be selected.

In 1992 the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia ( the first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there ), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

In public, the programmers were referred to collectively as the Blue Sky Rangers.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

Inspired by Klein & MBO's " Dirty Talk " and Sylvester's disco classic, " You Make Me Feel ( Mighty Real )", " Blue Monday " became the best-selling independent 12 " single of all time in the UK ; however, ( much to the chagrin of the buying public ) it was not on the track list of Power, Corruption & Lies.

Yet Adorno was no less moved by other public events: protesting the publication of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat with its film title, The Blue Angel ; declaring his sympathy with those who protested the scandal of big-game hunting and penning a defense of prostitutes.

Prior to the enactment of the federal securities laws and the creation of the SEC, there existed so-called Blue Sky laws that were enacted and enforced at the state level and regulated the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud.

In 1926, " Navy Blue and Gold ", composed by organist and choirmaster J. W. Crosley, was first sung in public.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

Each of its public primary schools have been honored as a California Distinguished School and the United States National Blue Ribbon School.

East Valley accepts all public health insurance such as MediCal ( also known as Medicaid ), Medicare, and Healthy Families ( also known as SHIP ), as well as private health insurance such as Blue Cross / Blue Shield, among others.

Westbrook's public elementary school, The Daisy Ingraham Elementary School, was the recipient of a Blue Ribbon honor for excellence for 1998-99.

Eight public elementary schools serve Evans: Bel Air Elementary, Blue Ridge Elementary, Evans Elementary, Greenbrier Elementary, Lewiston Elementary, River Ridge Elementary, Riverside Elementary, and South Columbia Elementary.

It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois, and has easy access to downtown Chicago ( the Chicago Loop ) due to public transportation such as the Chicago ' L ' Blue and Green lines, CTA buses, and Metra commuter rail.

The public schools are a member of the Blue Water Area Conference for athletics and a member of the third district of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association for musical competitions.

Academically, the district has earned " Blue Ribbon School " status, an honor reserved for less than 10 percent of Missouri's public schools.

However, public opposition by the residents of Blue Diamond and other area residents, joined by Nevada Senator Harry Reid, has so far blocked the project.

St. Louis Park is the only school district in Minnesota in which every public school has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U. S. Department of Education.

Blue Springs has a Municipal Police Department and two Fire Districts providing public safety services to Blue Springs.