WASHINGTON — The Navy Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds will conduct a series of flyovers of cities starting Tuesday in honor of the nation’s health care workers and first responders.
The Pentagon is calling it a show of national solidarity in the face of the pandemic.
The two flight demonstration teams will fly over areas of the country hardest hit by COVID-19, as both joint and individual team flights until mid-May.
The first flights will be Tuesday over New York City, Philadelphia, and the New Jersey cities of Newark and Trenton.
The Air Force and Navy are working with local governments to help ensure spectators follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention social distancing guidelines. The Blue Angels are based at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, and the Thunderbirds are based at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
Both teams this year have canceled many performances in response to Department of Defense direction resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak.
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