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.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

Only Blue Throat and his gang stayed where they were.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

Popular commercial BBS programs were Blue Board, Ivory BBS, Color64 and CNet 64.

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 downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

To speed the trials at Woomera, the test rounds were flown there by Victors and Vulcans in Operation Blue Ranger.

Blue Steel finally entered service in February 1963, being carried by Vulcans and Victors, although its limitations were already apparent.

This WE. 177 laydown weapon supplemented the remaining modified Blue Steel missiles using a low-level penetration followed by a pop-up manoeuvre to release the weapon at Forty-eight live operational rounds were deployed on 48 Vulcan and Victor bombers plus a further five live rounds as operational spares.

Blue whales were abundant in nearly all the oceans on Earth until the beginning of the twentieth century.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

On 22 May 2011, The Blue Angels were performing at the Lynchburg Regional Airshow in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the Diamond formation flew the Barrel Roll Break maneuver at an altitude that was lower than the required minimum altitude.

The next day, the Blue Angels announced that they were initiating a safety stand-down, canceling their upcoming Naval Academy Airshow and returning to their home base in Pensacola, Florida, for additional training and airshow practice.

On 26 May, the Blue Angels announced they would not be flying their traditional fly-over of the Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony and that they were canceling their 28 – 29 May 2011 performances at the Millville Wings and Wheels Airshow in Millville, New Jersey.

When the club was formed in 1873 uniforms were not available, and most players wore Navy Blue work guernseys.

" Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Three Colors Trilogy were each made for these festivals, with Blue for Venice, White for Berlin, and Red for Cannes.

The Blue Ribbon Awards were established in 1950.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Blue was a particular problem, and skies and blue robes were often added a secco, because neither azurite blue nor lapis lazuli, the only two blue pigments then available, works well in wet fresco.

After the war the bodies were recovered ; 14 were reburied at Blue Beach Military Cemetery and 64 were returned to Britain.

The Göktürks or Kök Türks ( Celestial / Blue Turks ) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia.

Blue Steel was officially retired on 31 December 1970, with the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear capacity passing to the submarine fleet.

Maximum Blue-Green became Azure Blue and later Green Blue until officially retired in 1980.

In 2005, the Smithsonian published a year-long computer-aided geometry research which officially acknowledged that the Hope Diamond is, in fact, part of the stolen French Blue crown jewel.

Shortly after that " Captain Eddie " Rickenbacker retired and a new image was adopted, which included the now famous hockey stick design which is officially Caribbean Blue over Ionosphere Blue.

The county is officially divided into nine electoral townships: Blue Ridge, Clear Creek, Crab Creek, Edneyville, Fletcher, Green River, Hendersonville, Hoopers Creek, and Mills River.

The 13 officially retired crayon colors are " Blue Gray ", " Lemon Yellow ", " Orange Red ", " Orange Yellow ", " Violet Blue ", " Maize ", " Green Blue ", " Raw Umber ", " Thistle ", " Blizzard Blue ", " Mulberry ", " Teal Blue ", and " Magic Mint ".

The settlement was officially registered in Texas in 1894, and began to take shape as a railroad town along present-day US 90A at Texas Parkway, then known as Main Street and Blue Ridge Road.

Project Sign, based at Air Technical Intelligence Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and its successors Project Grudge and Project Blue Book were officially tasked with investigating the flying saucers.

The university lies close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Reservation ( officially known as the Qualla Boundary ) and some of the nation's most beautiful national forest lands.

In 1941, Prime Minister Robert Menzies stated that there should be no restrictions on private citizens using the Blue Ensign on land, and in 1947 Prime Minister Ben Chifley reaffirmed this position, but it wasn't until the passage of the Flags Act 1953 that the restriction on civilians flying the Blue Ensign was officially lifted, after which use of the Red Ensign on land became a rarity.

After several months of helping the PC monthly disk magazine Big Blue Disk, he officially moved into the department until he started a PC gaming division in July 1990 named ' Gamer's Edge ' ( originally titled PCRcade ).

Richard Marson's book Blue Peter: Inside the Archives lists Hart as a presenter in November 1959 but he is not officially listed as a host.

Blue symbolizes, officially, the sky, hope, and water ; yellow the sun and the desert to the north of the country ; red progress, unity, and sacrifice.

Though Spain was officially neutral through World War Two, it did send troops known as the Blue Division to Russia to aid the Germans, and its pro-Axis stance led to it being isolated after the collapse of the Axis powers.

The A's ( as they were officially known from ) moved to California in January 1968, just as the new talent amassed over the years in the minors ( such as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Joe Rudi, Bert Campaneris, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue ) was starting to gel.

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The Blue Legion was officially called the Legión Española de Voluntarios was created from 1, 500 pro-Fascist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front, after most of the Spanish Blue Division had been repatriated in March 1944, because Francisco Franco had started negotiations with the western Allies.