Blue Angels Tribute
...or you can read the full story, as told by Gil Rud himself, the commanding officer during the first season the Blues transitioned to the F/A-18, in the book called:
The Blue Angels A Fly-By History - Sixty Years of Excellence by Nicholas A. Veronico
Excerpt:
"The other A-4 maneuver we attempted in the F/A-18 was the four-plane dirty roll-in formation. That was ugly. We tried it, and we got through it, but it was so ugly when looking at it from the ground because the airplanes were going all over the place. It was just very uncomfortable, so we decided not to do it."
The story about how the Dirty Loop came about is then told.
The Blue Angels A Fly-By History - Sixty Years of Excellence by Nicholas A. Veronico
Excerpt:
"The other A-4 maneuver we attempted in the F/A-18 was the four-plane dirty roll-in formation. That was ugly. We tried it, and we got through it, but it was so ugly when looking at it from the ground because the airplanes were going all over the place. It was just very uncomfortable, so we decided not to do it."
The story about how the Dirty Loop came about is then told.
