MWSA Book Review

The Blue Angels - A Fly By History

Authors: Nicholas A. Veronico

Publisher:  Zenith Press

Reviewer: Bill McDonald – President of the MWSA

Great Book About America’s favorite Aviators – The Blue Angels!

Nicholas Veronico has produced a marvelous collection of photos, history, stories and reference data on America’s most popular aviation group in his coffee table sized book “The Blue Angels – A Fly-By History: Sixty Years Of Aerial Excellence.”  It is sure to please all Blue Angel fans world wide. There is so much more to his book than some cold history about the group. This book gives you both the men and their flying machines in a perfect and balanced presentation.

The book not only looks great with many photos of the planes in action but the text digs deeply into the history and personalities involved with making this team a sixty year hit. The author uses some good editing and an easy to follow format to share this group’s story. It is obvious that there was some detailed research that enshrines this whole book project. It feels like a labor of love from the author and comes across in an entertaining style. The book is a tribute to a wonderful group of aviators.

It will sit proudly on your coffee table or in your book shelf but if you leave it lying around the office or the house, people will begin picking it up and browsing through it – the temptation is just too great to fondle and ogle it. The good thing about this book is that it is just as much fun to look at and read the second or the third time or even the first one hundred times you pick it up. It is a collector’s book to be cherished and displayed.

The MWSA gives this book its highest rating of FIVE STARS!

MWSA's 2006 Distinguished Medal Award