Wednesday, October 5, 2022
 
STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

“Stretch out your arm,” John “Gucci” Foley, a former lead solo pilot for the Blue Angels, told a crowd at Ketchum’s American Legion Hall.“Eighteen inches apart. That’s the amount of distance between we had between our plane and the plane flying next to us,” he added, as he showed a picture on a screen of several Blue Angel F/A-18 Super Hornets flying in formation practically on top of one another. “Can you imagine having a plane besides you at the end of your fingers as you fly 120 miles an hour? You’re pushing one another’s wings you’re so close.” Read More on Eye on Sun Valley