<Li> Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience is a 1975 documentary film, written by Dune author Frank Herbert, featuring the team in practice and performance during their F - 4J Phantom era; many of the aerial photography techniques pioneered in Threshold were later used in the film Top Gun . </Li> <Li> To Fly!, a short IMAX film featured at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum since its 1976 opening features footage from a camera on a Blue Angels A4 Skyhawk tail as the pilot performs in a show . https://www.si.edu/imax/movie/fly </Li> <Li> In 2005, the Discovery Channel aired a documentary miniseries, Blue Angels: A Year in the Life, focusing on the intricate day - to - day details of that year's training and performance schedule . </Li> <Li> The video for the American rock band Van Halen's 1986 release "Dreams" consists of Blue Angels performance footage . The video was originally shot featuring the Blues in the A-4 Skyhawk . A later video features the F / A-18 Hornet . </Li>

History of aircraft used by the blue angels