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Image: Aircraft flown by the US Navy Blue Angels 1946 to 1996

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Description: Drawing showing the different aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy "Blue Angels" aerobatics team (top to bottom): Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat: June–August 1946 Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat: August 1946 – 1949 Grumman F9F-2 Panther: 1949 – June 1950; F9F-5 Panther: 1951 - Winter 1954/55 Grumman F9F-8 Cougar: Winter 1954/55 - mid-season 1957 Grumman F11F-1 (F-11A) Tiger: mid-season 1957 – 1969 McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II: 1969 – December 1974 Douglas A-4F Skyhawk: December 1974 – November 1986 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/C Hornet: November 1986 – present
Title: Aircraft flown by the US Navy Blue Angels 1946 to 1996
Credit: U.S. Navy All Hands magazine February 1996, p. 24.
Author: U.S. Navy
Permission: "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."
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