Lt. Amanda Lee is the first female pilot in The Blue Angels’ 76-year history to be chosen for its elite aerial acrobatics team.
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s elite flight demonstration squadron, has chosen a woman to fly with the team for the first time in its 76-year history. Lt. Amanda Lee was selected to be a demonstration pilot, joining five other officers tapped for the upcoming 2023 air show season, according to a press release from the squadron. Lee, a Minnesota native who goes by the callsign “Stalin,” will report to the Angels in the fall, where she will undergo an intensive five-month training program.
“I wouldn’t say that there’s a gender bias but it’s really, you need a certain mental toughness to get through the program,” Lee said in 2019, according to. “So you really need that strong will to get through, to succeed.” Lee, who will pilot a F/A-18E/F Super Hornet for the six-jet flight team, will be the first woman to fly in the Angels’ formation, but isn’t the squadron’s first female pilot ever. Marine Maj.
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