Posted on 11/06/2020 1:53:23 PM PST by AF_Blue
The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron conducted the last flight using its F/A-18 A/B/C/D Hornets on Wednesday. The aircraft, which the Blue Angels have flown for 34 years, will be replaced with F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets beginning with the team’s 2021 show season. The Hornets departed Florida’s Naval Air Station Pensacola at around 4 p.m. local time for a 30-minute flyover ranging from the Pensacola area to Alabama’s Fort Morgan.
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Isnt the t38 the trainer of the f20 tigershark?
One of the best little planes around that has decent kick, i’ve been told.
It was the trainer of the F-5, I think, of which the F-20 was an advanced variant.
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