Blue Angels Pilot takes Epic Selfie (with phone)

Published on: May 21, 2014 at 6:20 PM

U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilot took a cool self-portrait above the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

The one taken by Lt. Commander Nate Barton, who flies the left-wing position with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels demo team is a real “selfie”: it is not a screenshot taken by a GoPro camera, like the (stunning) ones taken by other pilots recently, but a photo shot with a phone from the cockpit of an F/A-18 Hornet!

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Barton, Blue Angel Three, took the image and posted the following tweet on Twitter:

“#BlueAngels are ready to fire it up over @NavalAcademy #upsidedown!”.

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Image credit: Lt. Commander Nate Barton/U.S. Navy

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