The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies in El Centro during one of the team's winter training days at Naval Air Facility El Centro.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies in El Centro during one of the team’s winter training days at Naval Air Facility El Centro.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Photos: Sky trails

U-T photographer Nelvin C. Cepeda captures the Navy’s Blue Angels flight team during their winter training at Naval Air Facility El Centro on Friday, March 14, 2025

Moon set from El Centro with the C-130 Hercules, better known as Fat Albert, assigned to the Navy Blue Angels.   (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies in El Centro during one of the team’s winter training days at Naval Air Facility El Centro.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The crowd watches the Blue Angels training exercises at Naval Air Facility El Centro.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies in El Centro  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Blue Angels flight team fly high through the sky.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers above the skies in El Centro during one of the team’s winter training days at Naval Air Facility El Centro.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Navy’s Blue Angels flight team performed their precision flight maneuvers.  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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