Navy Lt. Amanda Lee will become the Blue Angels' first female fighter jet demonstration pilot

The Navy announced that Lt. Amanda Lee, a F/A-18E/F demonstration pilot currently assigned to the “Gladiators” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, had been selected to join the Blue Angels team for the 2023 season. In the past 55 years, “hundreds of women have served with the Blue Angels,” according to the Navy. In 2015, for example, Marine Corps Maj. Katie Cook flew the Blue Angel’s “Fat Albert” C-130J Super Hercules transport… (www.flyingmag.com) Más...