On Assignment: Blue Angels over the Hudson River

JERSEY CITY, N.J., APRIL 2, 2012 — The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels) perform a survey flight in New York City to prepare for Fleet Week New York 2012. The Blue Angels aerial survey included two F/A-18 jets which conducted passes as low as 500 feet and at speeds up to 345 mph. The aircrafts made multiple passes over the Hudson River between 9:30-11:00 A.M., and made turns in the area south of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and north of the George Washington Bridge. Here, the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels fly past the Statue of Liberty as seen from Liberty State Park in Jersey City. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)