Editing Blue Angels (section)

===1950–1959===
[[File:Blues Support Crew watching Diamond Formation at Show.jpg|thumb|left|Support crew watches their team flying [[Grumman F9F-2 Panther]] jet fighters, 1952]]

The Blue Angels pilots continued to perform nationwide in 1950. On 25 June, the [[Korean War]] started, and all Blue Angels pilots<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1950 (Flight Leader John Magda, second from right) |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> volunteered for combat duty. The squadron (due to a shortage of pilots, and no available planes) and its members were ordered to "combat-ready status" after an exhibition at [[Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth|Naval Air Station, Dallas, Texas]] on 30 July.<ref name=aug55/> The Blue Angels were disbanded,<ref name="Blue Angels History"/> and its pilots were reassigned to a [[Aircraft carrier|carrier]]. Once aboard the aircraft carrier {{USS|Princeton|CV-37|6}} on 9 November, the group formed the core of [[VF-191|Fighter Squadron 191]] (VF-19), "Satan's Kittens", under the command of World War II fighter ace and 1950 Blue Angels Commander/Flight Leader, Lt. Commander John Magda; he was killed in action on 8 March 1951.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Blue Angel's First Combat Flight at Midway |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nnam/education/articles/history-up-close/a-blue-angel_s-first-combat-flight-at-midway.html |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |access-date=23 July 2022 |date=2015-06-03}}</ref>

On 25 October 1951, the Blues were ordered to re-activate as a flight demonstration team, and reported to [[Naval Air Station Corpus Christi|NAS Corpus Christi]], Texas. Lt. Cdr. Voris was again tasked with assembling the team (he was the first of only two commanding officers to lead them twice). In May 1952, the Blue Angels began performing again with F9F-5 Panthers<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1952 |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> at an airshow in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].<ref name=aug55/> In 1953, the team traded its Sky Train for a [[Curtiss C-46 Commando|Curtiss R5C Commando]]. In August, "Blues" leader [[Arthur Ray Hawkins|LCDR Ray Hawkins]] became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when a new F9F-6 he was piloting became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.<ref name="ejection-history">{{cite web|url=http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1953.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527070814/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1953.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 May 2006|title=2005|publisher=ejection-history.org.uk|access-date=16 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book |title=First Blue: The Story of World War II Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels |author=Wilcox, R.K. |year=2004 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-3123-2249-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2hFEhFCKGwAC |pages=2–237 |access-date=16 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Blue Angel Ejects at High Speed |newspaper=Naval Aviation News |date=October 1952 |via=Blue Angels Association |url=http://www.blueangels.org/NANews/Articles/Oct53/Oct53.htm}}</ref> After summer, the team began demonstrating with F9F-6 Cougar.

[[File:F9F-8 Blue Angles1 NAN1-57.jpg|thumb|right|[[Grumman F-9 Cougar|Grumman F9F-8 Cougar]] formation in 1956]]
In 1954, the first [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] pilot, Captain Chuck Hiett, joined the Navy flight demonstration team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1954, 1955 |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 also received special colored flight suits.<ref name="Blue Angels History"/> In May, the Blue Angels performed at [[Bolling Air Force Base]] in Washington, D.C., with the [[United States Air Force Thunderbirds|Air Force Thunderbirds]] (activated 25 May 1953).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-blue-angels/ |title=The Blue Angels: A 65 Year History |first=Robert F. |date=11 October 2011 |last=Dorr |work=DefenseMediaNetwork |access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref> The Blue Angels began relocating to their current home at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida that winter,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gall |first1=Sandy |title=How well do you know the Blue Angels? |url=https://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=7797 |website=CHIPS: the Department of the Navy's Information Technology Magazine |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221082146/http://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=7797 |url-status=live}}</ref> and it was here they progressed to the swept-wing [[Grumman F-9 Cougar|Grumman F9F-8 Cougar]]. In December, the team left its home base for its first winter training facility at [[Naval Air Facility El Centro]], California<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/history/ |title=History of the Blue Angels, 1950s |website=Blue Angels |access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref>

In September 1956, the team added a sixth aircraft to the flight demonstration in the Opposing Solo position,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1956 |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> and gave its first performance outside the United States at the International Air Exposition in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada. It also upgraded its logistics aircraft to the [[Douglas C-54 Skymaster|Douglas R5D Skymaster]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1957, the Blue Angels transitioned from the F9F-8 Cougar to the supersonic [[Grumman F11F Tiger|Grumman F11F-1 Tiger]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blueangelsassociation.org/flight-teams/ |title=Flight Teams, 1957 |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 first demonstration was flying the short-nosed version on 23 March, at [[Naval Outlying Landing Field Barin|Barin Field]], Pensacola, and then the long-nosed versions. The demonstration team (with added Angel 6) wore gold flight suits during the first air show that season.

In 1958, the first Six-Plane Delta Maneuvers were added that season.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}