Hot! The Blue Angels Team

A overall involving of sixteen representatives of your accord function while using Blue Angels . Each year or so the actual workforce typically decides on some tactical (fighter or fighter/attack) plane pilots, two support officials and one Marine Corps C-130 pilot to help alleviate departing members.

The Chief associated with Naval Air Training selects this "Boss," the Blue Angels Commanding Officer. Boss need as a minimum 3,000 tactical jet flight-hours and also have commanded a tactical aircraft squadron. The Commanding Officer jigs that Number 1 jet.

Career-oriented Navy plus Marine Corps jet pilots along with an planes service qualifying measures along with a minimum of 1,250 tactical plane flight-hours qualify pertaining to positions soaring jets Number a couple of through 7. The Events Coordinator, Number 8, can be a Naval Flight Officer (NFO) or perhaps a new Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) which satisfies exactly the same standards when Numbers a couple of as a result of 7. The Marine Corps pilots flying the C-130T Hercules aircraft, affectionately also known as "Fat Albert," must be aircraft commander qualified along with as a minimum 1,200 airline ticket hours.

Career-oriented officers specializing with maintenance, administration, aviation medicine, arrest affairs and supply fill up support positions. The Blue Angels trust their number of representatives on expert ability, military bearing along with verbal exchanges skills. Blue Angels officers are well-rounded representatives health of their fleet counterparts.

Demonstration pilots, the actual Events Coordinator, Maintenance Officer in addition to Flight Surgeon serve a pair of decades with the squadron. The various other representatives commonly work several several years while using team. Blue Angels representatives come back to the navy following their tourdates of duty.