What is the more common name for the US Navy's aerial demonstration team?
Blue Angels Blue Angels The Blue Angels is the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron, with aviators from the Navy and Marines. The Blue Angels team was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team (under the same name) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931. The Blue Angels' six demonstration pilots currently fly the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, typically in more than 70 shows at 34 locations throughout the United States each year, where they still employ many of the same practices and techniques used in their aerial displays in their inaugural
Aerial Common Sensor plans to revive the ACS program in 2009, and conducted an Industry Day in mid-October. The Army continues to envision the ACS program as capable of meeting US Navy ISR needs for a replacement of the EP-3E Aries II. Boeing pitched a modified version of the Boeing P-8 Poseidon to fill the ACS role. The ACS project has since been superseded by EMARSS, based on a smaller aircraft. Aerial Common Sensor The Lockheed Martin Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) platform was a reconnaissance aircraft airframe project for the United States Army (US Army) and United States Navy (US Navy). The aircraft