Since 1949, the Blue Angels have flown jet fighters. Before that, they flew piston-engine aircraft, beginning with the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, a version of the carrier-based fighter that turned the ...

The Chinese jet flew as close as 150 feet next to the Japanese plane on Saturday, and cut in front within 3,000 feet of the nose on Sunday, introducing the likelihood of a crash, the Defense ...

The Blue Angels flew a variant of the Navy's first supersonic fighter jet, the F11F-1 Tiger, from 1957 through 1969. This means the Tiger lasted longer with the Blue Angels than it did with the ...