Editing Blue Angels (section)

===Overview===
[[File:Blue Angels Vinage Insignia.JPG|thumb|upright=0.8|The original team insignia]]

The Blue Angels were originally formed in April 1946 as the Navy Flight Exhibition Team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1946 |publisher=Blue Angels Association |access-date=17 March 2019 |archive-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323145156/http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> They changed their name to the Blue Angels after seeing an advertisement for the [[New York City|New York]] nightclub [[The Blue Angel (New York nightclub)|The Blue Angel]], also known as The Blue Angel Supper Club, in the [[New Yorker Magazine]].<ref>[https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/history/default.htm#:~:text=Butch%20Voris%20and%20the%20Blue%20Angels "Butch Voris and the Blue Angels", US Navy Blue Angels website]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dixiesunnews.com/news/articles/2012/03/21/angels-fly-over-southern-utah/ |title=Blue Angels fly over St. George, thunder over Dixie |date=21 March 2012 |last=Tommor |first=Samantha |newspaper=Dixie Sun News |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030123144/https://dixiesunnews.com/news/articles/2012/03/21/angels-fly-over-southern-utah/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> The team was first introduced as the Blue Angels during an air show in July 1946.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aerobaticteams.net/en/resources/i39/Blue-Angels-History.html |title=Blue Angels History |publisher=Aerobatic Teams |access-date=12 March 2019}}</ref>

The first Blue Angels demonstration aircraft wore navy blue (nearly black) with gold lettering. The current shades of blue and yellow were adopted when the first demonstration aircraft were transitioned from the [[Grumman F6F Hellcat|Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat]] to the [[Grumman F8F Bearcat|Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat]] in August 1946; the aircraft wore an all-yellow scheme with blue markings during the 1949 show season.<ref>Campbell, ''War Paint'', p. 171.</ref>

The original Blue Angels [[insignia]] or crest was designed in 1949, by Lt. Commander Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes, their third Flight Leader and first jet fighter leader. The aircraft silhouettes change as the team changes aircraft.<ref name="OFFICIAL" />

The Blue Angels transitioned from propeller-driven aircraft to blue and gold jet aircraft ([[Grumman F9F Panther|Grumman F9F-2B Panther]]) in August 1949.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1949 |website=Blue Angels Association |access-date=17 March 2019 |archive-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323145156/http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Blue Angels demonstration teams began wearing leather jackets and special colored flight suits with the Blue Angels insignia, in 1952. In 1953, they began wearing gold colored flight suits for the first show of the season and or to commemorate milestones for the flight demonstration squadron.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, yearly photos |website=Blue Angels Association |access-date=16 March 2019 |archive-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323145156/http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northescambia.com/2014/03/wearing-gold-the-blue-angels-return-to-the-skies |title=Wearing Gold: The Blue Angels Return To The Skies. March 16, 2014 |website=NorthEscabia.com |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_KgLw13L8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211103/OF_KgLw13L8 |archive-date=2021-11-03 |url-status=live|title=US Navy Blue Angels 1st Air Show in 2014 on March 15 at El Centro California |date=13 April 2014 |via=YouTube |access-date=12 March 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.opb.org/news/video/harley-hall-vietnam-pow/ |title=Harley Hall: Vietnam POW (wearing BA gold flight suit-1971) |publisher=OPB TV/Radio |access-date=16 March 2019 |archive-date=30 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430094423/https://www.opb.org/news/video/harley-hall-vietnam-pow/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Navy Flight Exhibition Team was reorganized and commissioned the ''United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron'' on 10 December 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/history/ |title=History of the Blue Angels/Significant Events in Blue Angels History, 1970s |website=Blue Angels |access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref>