Amanda Lee. The Blue Angels, formed in 1946, have had hundreds of women serve with the team in various capacities over the decades, but never as a demonstration jet pilot. Here’s what fans ...

Lee participated a 2019 all-female flyover honoring the first female Navy jet pilot Capt. Rosemary Mariner at her funeral. While Lee is the first female jet pilot to be accepted into the Blue ...

Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA The Blue Angels appointed its first female jet pilot to join the squadron on Monday. The US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron selected Lt. Amanda Lee to be the first ...

Air & Space Quarterly talks to Blue Angels pilot Amanda Lee Diane Tedeschi Why ... We don’t typically break the speed of sound, although the jet is more than capable of doing so.

"Because many female pilots already feel as though they ... Critics questioned Hultgreen's suitability as a combat jet pilot.

Retired Air Force Colonel Samantha Weeks was the first female solo Thunderbird pilot. Dianne Derby talks with her about what ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Captain Theresa Claiborne, the first Black female pilot in the US Air Force and a captain at United. The following was edited for length and ...

But male and female pilots have some relief arriving ... The Pentagon also plans to adapt the system for use by Navy and Marine jet pilots, along with Army helicopter crews. Eventually, the ...