Our good friends over at put together an awesome video showing the lineage of the Blue Angel’s jet age mounts set to the Bach’s booming Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. It is a glorious blend of aviation history, classical music and the high-energy aerobatics the Blues are so well known for.

Here is the for our mobile users:

If you were wondering what entire list of aircraft the Blue Angles have flown, here it is, starting with the WWII era Hellcat and ending with the F/A-18C/D today:

F6F Hellcat 1946F8F Bearcat 1946 to 1949F9F-2 Panther 1949 to 1950F9F-5 Panther 1951 to 1955F9F-8 Cougar 1955 to 1957F11F-1 Tiger 1957 to 1968F-4J Phantom II 1969 to 1974A-4F Skyhawk II 1974 to 1986F/A-18 Hornet A/B 1986 to 2010F/A-18 Hornet C/D Current

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