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First jet demo female pilot for the Blue Angels

Posted on July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 by alert5

Lt. Amanda Lee makes Blue Angels history as the first woman to fly in a demo jet with the team.

The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, selected six new officers to join the team for the for the 2023 air show season. Lt. Amanda Lee, of Mounds View, Minn., is currently assigned to the “Gladiators” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106. She graduated from Old Dominion University in 2013.

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MQ-8C demonstrates mine countermeasure system prototype

Posted on July 10, 2022July 9, 2022 by alert5

The U.S. Navy’s MQ-8C has tested the Single System Multi-Mission Airborne Mine Detection (SMAMD) system for the first time.

Photo: USN
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Royal Thai Navy chooses Hermes 900

Posted on July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 by alert5

Royal Thai Navy spokesman Vice Adm Pokkrong Monthatphalin announced on Jul. 1 that the service has selected the Israeli Hermes 900 after closing an international bid.

Martin Thoeni, www.powerplanes.ch [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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VP-62 retires its P-3

Posted on July 6, 2022 by alert5

It was a Night Stalkers MH-47G that caught fire at NAS North Island last month

Posted on July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 by alert5

The U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) has come out to say that it was one of their MH-47G helicopter that caught fire while at NAS North Island.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Reed Knutson
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