Stay updated with breaking news from Slot Pilot. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Tuesday, public officials honored Air Force Thunderbird Major Stephen Del Bagno, who was killed when his plane crashed during a routine demonstration and training flight in Nevada five years ago.
Lt. Amanda Lee has been named the Navy's Blue Angels acrobatics team's first female F/A-18E/F demonstration pilot.
1940s At the end of World War II, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Chester W. Nimitz ordered the formation of a flight demonstration team to keep the public interested in naval aviation. In a short three months, the Navy Flight Exhibition Team performed its first flight demonstration June 15, 1946, at their home base, Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida. Lt. Cmdr. Roy âButchâ Voris led the team and flew the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat. The new Navy Flight Exhibition team was only the second formal flying demonstration team to have been created in the world, since the Patrouille de...