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In Flight USA, February 2006 (circ.: 41,000)
“An impressive tribute to the fascinating history of this venerable flight exhibition team. The images and photos are as impressive as the compilation of history and interviews that Veronico weaves in and out of his work. As the team celebrates its 60th year, it could hardly hope for a better print tribute to the heritage of this daring group which continues to thrill at the dawn of the 21st century.”Air & Space Smithsonian, April/May, 2006 (circ.: 250,000)
“Naval enthusiasts will find plenty to cheer about in Veronico’s obsessively detailed chronology and photographs of the various aircraft used over the team’s history.”
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In 1946 the Blue Angels first took wing; a team of four pilots flew the Grumman F6F Hellcat, in daring air shows conceived by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations. And in the 60 years since then, "V" and "Echelon" formations gave way to awe-inspiring "Diamond" maneuvers and solo tricks like the "Dirty Loop" and the "Tuck-away Break." The six-man teams moved into the jet age with the McDonnell Douglas IA-18 Hornet. More than 350 million spectators around the world have thrilled to the Blue Angels’ precision flying.
Arriving on the Blue Angels’ 60th anniversary, this book is a fitting tribute to these representatives of naval aviation and international ambassadors of good will. In soaring words and photographs, The Blue Angels: A Fly-By History celebrates the popular unit’s feats, key figures, and aircraft: from Flight Leader Roy "Butch" Voris’ first outing in 1946 to the time of the Korean Conflict, when the Blue Angels formed the nucleus of a fighter squadron known as "Satan’s Kittens"; from 1974, when the team donned a new aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II, to the breathtaking air shows of today.
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Blue Angels, Corpus Christi, Fat Albert, Maximum Speed, Marine Corps, Wing Area, Beetle Bomb, Naval Air Station Pensacola, National Air Races, Specifications Length, Craig Field, West Coast, Voris Collection, San Diego, Jim Dunn, Bill Newman Collection, Pat Murphy, Key West, Naval Reserve Air Base Oakland, Nello Pierozzi, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, National Championship Air Races, Japanese Zero, Naval Air Station Alameda, Bill Wheat Browse Sample Pages:
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