Lt. Amanda "Stalin" Lee is the first woman to be a Blue Angels demonstration pilot

Awesome. The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds are amazing to watch. Nerves of steel acrobatics!

Their first woman pilot of the Blue Angels was a Marine, Maj. Katie Cook, who flew their KC-130 Hercules aka Fat Albert, as well as others who were support crew or officers.

As for the call sign, as I understand it, one’s call sign is given to you by your fellow pilots. It is almost never something cool like “Ice Man” or “Maverick” and usually stems from something embarrassing you did. So possibly from an incident where there was a stall?

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