Blue Angels - Show Routine

Show Routine

The following is the show routine used on 17 May 2008:

  • Fat Albert (C-130) – high performance takeoff (Low Transition)
  • Fat Albert – Parade Pass (Photo Pass. The plane banks around the front of the crowd)
  • Fat Albert – Flat Pass
  • Fat Albert – Head on Pass
  • Fat Albert – Short-Field Assault Landing
  • FA-18 Engine Start-Up and Taxi Out
  • Diamond Take-off (Either a low transition with turn, loop on takeoff, a half-Cuban 8 takeoff, or a Half Squirrel Cage)
  • Solos Take-off (Blue Angel #5: Dirty Roll on Take-Off; Blue Angel #6: Low Transition pitch up)
  • Diamond 360: Aircraft 1, 2, 3 and 4 are in their signature 18" wingtip-to-canopy diamond formation.
  • Opposing Knife-Edge Pass
  • Diamond Roll: The whole diamond formation rolls as a single entity.
  • Opposing Inverted to Inverted Rolls
  • Diamond Aileron Roll: All 4 diamond jets perform simultaneous aileron rolls.
  • Fortus: Solos flying in carrier landing configuration with No.5 inverted, establishing a "mirror image" effect.
  • Diamond Dirty Loop: The diamond flies a loop with all 4 jets in the carrier landing configuration.
  • Minimum Radius Turn (Highest G maneuver. No.5 flies a "horizontal loop" pulling 7 Gs to maintain a tight radius)
  • Double Farvel: Diamond formation flat pass with aircraft 1 and 4 inverted.
  • Opposing Minimum Radius Turn
  • Echelon Parade
  • Opposing Horizontal Rolls
  • Left Echelon Roll: The roll is made into the Echelon, which is somewhat difficult for the outside aircraft.
  • Sneak Pass: the fastest speed of the show is about 700 mph (just under Mach 1 at sea level) Video
  • Line-Abreast Loop – the most difficult formation maneuver to do well. No.5 joins the diamond as the 5 jets fly a loop in a straight line
  • Opposing Four-Point Hesitation Roll
  • Vertical Break
  • Opposing Pitch Up
  • Barrel Roll Break
  • Section High-Alpha Pass: (tail sitting), the show's slowest maneuver
  • Low Break Cross
  • Inverted Tuck Over Roll
  • Tuck Under Break
  • Delta Roll
  • Fleur de Lis
  • Solos Pass to Rejoin, Diamond flies a loop
  • Loop Break Cross (Delta Break): After the break the aircraft separate in six different directions, perform half Cuban Eights then cross in the center of the performance area.
  • Delta Breakout
  • Delta Pitch Up Break to Land

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