Blue Angels go Bio in six-plane F-18 Hornet display

In Maryland, the US Navy’s flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, flew using a 50-50 blend of fossil fuel and biofuel produced from vegetable matter during a show at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. It was the first time the six-plane F/A-18 Hornets squad were powered by a biofuel blend.

Late last month, a T-45C Goshawk training aircraft flew on the same blended fuel, following a Marine MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, which used the blend for the first time two weeks earlier. The flights are part of a drive by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to reduce the US’s reliance on foreign oil sources.