Plus, the announcer must have said ten times, The Supersonic F11, and hey, supersonic was beyond cool to all the kids.
I was in Class 05-63 at Pensacola. At the time, the advanced students were flying F-11’s down in Texas.
In 1964 the Blues and the Thunderbirds appeared jointly at NAS Pensacola, flying F-11’s and F-105’s respectively.
Now I have to go research them both to see how faulty my memory is!