“We joke and call it the F-22 gymnastics team. He said their combat fighter jets are used like a gymnastics team. “They’re going to do some stuff that’s going to blow your mind," said Joshua Gunderson, the F-22 Demonstration Team Commander and Pilot. The Air Force F-22 Raptors will be on hand as well. ![]() Of course, the Blue Angels won’t be alone in the Milwaukee Air and Water Show this weekend. It’s going to look very different from what you saw in 2017.” ![]() "They’re bigger, they’re faster, they’ve got a little more power behind them. “While they might look like legacy hornets, they’re not," Rickoff said. The planes they'll be flying are their brand new Super Hornets. If you’ve seen the Blue Angels before - whether that was the last time they were in Milwaukee in 2017, or maybe at another show - this show will be different, and so will their jets. "That’s why we practice so much, so when we travel from site to site, hopefully the only thing that changes is the ground below us.” “We’re practicing November to March, practicing just to get our show together," Rickoff said. ![]() Rickoff and the other Blue Angels pilots spend months getting the show ready every year, working on choreographing their turns and dives, getting everything in sync. We’ve done Chicago a couple times, but to come back up north here and back to one of our best shows, we’re really excited to be here," said Lt.
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