07.19.2023 - By Wisconsin Public Radio
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels may be the most recognizable group of performing aviators in the world. Flying at up to 60 air shows in North America each year, the F-18 pilots who constitute this unit are among the best of the US Navy and Marine Corps. One of the pilots on the current squadron is a Wisconsin native Lieutenant Commander Griffin Stangel, who grew up in Madison. Milwaukee-based podcaster Dusty Weis got to know Stangel while flying with the Blue Angels.