You can see Blue Angel #4 Lt. Scott Goossens’ complete interview with Northwest Newsradio’s Ryan Harris in the video below:
Another sign Seafair is upon us is the arrival of the Navy’s elite flying squadron, known as the Blue Angels. The team put on a mini show for a select group gathered to watch their arrival at Boeing Field.
Blue Angel #4, Lieutenant Scott Goossens, says the F-A-18 Super Hornets they’ve flown the past couple of years is a bigger and far more powerful plane he says he loves to fly. “It’s kept me safe many dark, dark nights out in the middle of the ocean on a pitching deck of an aircraft carrier,” Goossens says, “It’s brought me home every single time, so I absolutely love this airplane.”
Lieutenant Goossen is from San Francisco, so he says he loves flying in their Fleet Week over the Bay and here at Seafair. Goossens says, “Being over the city, over water, boats everywhere, it’s just an incredible experience, and the flying is unparalleled. It’s so beautiful. I mean, look at this weather.”
This year there’s another first with Blue Angel #3, Lieutenant Amanda Lee making her Seafair debut as the first female pilot at the controls of one of the Super Hornets as part of the jet demo squadron. The team has had a female pilot for its support cargo plane, called “Fat Albert,” but Lee is the first to join the team as a jet pilot.
You’ll see the Blues practicing the next couple of days ahead of their appearance in the Seafair Airshow Saturday and Sunday.