High-speed pass from Blue Angel #5.
The Blue Angels is the world-famous flight demonstration team of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
For the 2014 season, Commander Dave Tickle was the Blue Angel #5 and lead solo.
This photo was taken during an airshow at Naval Air Station Pensacola on 8 November 2014.
In 2014, the Blue Angels were still flying the Boeing F/A-18 C/D Hornet. In November 2020, the team switched to the Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…