Regarding the Blue Angels, there’s no subtlety about it: That very loud vroom vroom fills your ears and their gravity-defying maneuvers fill your eyes, even as your brain says they do the impossible. The second-oldest formal flying aerobatic team, the U.S. Navy’s Angels fly the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. Fun fact: They still use many techniques and tricks tried out the first year they flew, 1946.
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10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. & Sun., Oct. 27 & 28, Naval Air Station Jax (the Angels’ birthplace!), Westside, nasjaxairshow.com, free.
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