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This year celebrates 50 years of women in Naval aviation, with the Blue Angels for the first time, including a woman flying one of the F/A-18 E Super Hornets.
"50 Years of Women in Naval Aviation" is the theme of the 2023 Naval Air Station Oceana Air Show. Taking to the sky Saturday and Sunday, will be the Blue Angels, the F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106’s Rhino Demonstration Team and various F/A-18 Super Hornet squadrons based at Oceana.The show is open to the public, and admission and parking are free.
Half a century ago, eight women were the first allowed to enter the Navy’s flight training school in Pensacola. Six of them earned their wings, blazing a trail for their futures that would light the way for female aviators for generations to come. “Things are happening now that I could not have even imagined back in the ’70s,” said retired Capt. Joellen Drag Oslund, the fourth woman to earn .
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