BLUE ANGELS 60th ANNIVERSARY SHOW SCHEDULE

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The celebrated Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, announced their schedule for the 2006 show season, 1 December. Following winter training, the team will begin its 60th season at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, 11 March 2006. The season will conclude, 11 November, at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.

The team's 60th anniversary marks six continuous decades of airshow appearances which began shortly after the end of WWII as a means of publicizing Naval Aviation's role in the postwar era. Commencing their demonstrations with the piston-engined F6F Hellcat fighters of WWII fame, The "Blues" next flew F8F Bearcat fighters before switching to jet-powered …