How much does the Blue Angels cost to perform?

It is not possible to buy a backseat flight with the Blue Angels without being selected.Two of the jet rides with the Blue Angels go to people.

How do they transport the Blue Angels?They fly them from either their home base or the previous show location.They fly out the planes together.Plane 7 is the narrator's plane and the plane used for the ride demonstrations which are usually offered to media sources a day or two before.

Blue Angel fighter jets burn about 8,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour of flight.1,200 gallons is equal to 8,000 pounds of jet fuel.There are six demonstration jets that burn 7200 gallons of jet fuel per hour.

We are paid the same as any other person in the military.All of us are paid according to our rank and time in service.Navy and Marine aviators make an average of $70,000 per year.

The pilots are ready for the rain.The Blue Angels need a minimum of 1500 feet of cloud level to fly.The pilots do different maneuvers based on how high they can fly.

While most of us would be skeptical to fly such fast planes in such close proximity to each other, Blue Angel pilots do so with ease.The planes can be as close to each other as a foot and a half.

Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog organization that focuses on wasteful spending and corruption, says that the A-10 can cost more than $17,000 per hour to fly.

Your body weight is equal to one G.Two G's is more than your body weight.A pilot and his co-pilot will pull in excess of seven G's at least once during the course of an hourlong Blue Angels flight.

He said that the pilots of the Blue Angels don't wear G suits because they rest their arms on their legs for stability.He said that if the G suit were to inflate and move someone's arm, it could cause amishap.

While on the team, the pilots and other team members do not deploy in a combat role.

An experienced commercial airline pilot can command an annual salary of more than $160,000, while the average for pilots and other cockpit crew is about $130,000.A fighter pilot with a decade of military flying can make $90,000.

The cheapest airport in Lawrence, Ma is Jet A, which costs $4 a gallon.The 2000 mile trip would take 3 1/2 hours for an hourly cost of $2000 for fuel.

The Blue Angels are aircraft.The F-16 Fighting Falcon is flown by the Thunderbirds.In terms of affordability for performance, it is one of the cheapest aircraft to fly and maintain.The F/A-18 Hornet is flown by the Blue Angels.