The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navyâs flight demonstration squadron, are celebrating their 75th anniversary season in 2021. The team was formed in 1946 and is the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team under the same name in the world.
The teamâs six demonstration pilots currently man the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets. It marks the first ânewâ aircraft added to the Blue Angels flight demonstration team since they adopted the legacy F/A-18C/Ds in 1986.
A total of 17 officers voluntarily serve with the Blue Angels. Each year, the team typically selects three tactical (fighter or fighter/attack) jet pilots, two support officers and one Marine Corps C-130 pilot to relieve departing members.
May 13, 2021
The people who miss Bryce Laughlin say he was the kind of guy who just wanted those around him to be happy.
Laughlin moved to Lake Placid in March and died last month of pneumonia after contracting COVID-19. He was 22 years old.
Laughlin is remembered as a kind-hearted person, good to his core, non-judgmental and accepting of people from all walks of life.
“He wanted people to be happy, and when he was there, you were,” said Bonnie Ingram, co-owner of a Chesapeake, Virginia, restaurant where Laughlin worked for over three years.
A new adventure
Laughlin’s father, Kevin, remarried and moved from Virginia to Iowa. His mother, Audrey Gudenkauf, was living in Kansas. For Laughlin, Lake Placid was a new adventure.
– Laughlin’s father, Kevin, remarried and moved from Virginia to Iowa. His mother, Audrey Gudenkauf, was living in Kansas. For Laughlin, Lake Placid was a new adventure. When Laughlin decided to move here, his parents worried about him but according to his mother, he was excited to show them that he could “do it on his own.” “He kept saying, ‘You know what, Mom? I have to show you that I can do it on my own, ” Gudenkauf said. “When he said he was moving to New York, I just had to let him do it. He did well. He drove up there by himself, transferred his mail and got new bank accounts.”
McEachin announces 2021 Congressional Art Competition winners
Published Saturday, May. 8, 2021, 6:53 am
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Donald McEachin
Congressman A. Donald McEachin has announced the winners of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition in Virginia’s Fourth District.
The first-place winner is Emani Salas, a 10th grade student at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake. Her pencil drawing, entitled “Littered Both Ways” will hang in the Capitol for one year.
Each spring, members of the U.S. House of Representatives sponsor a nation-wide high school arts competition. The Congressional Art Competition is an opportunity to recognize and encourage the artistic talent across the nation in each Congressional district. The winning entry from each district hangs in the U.S. Capitol for one year.