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BLUE IMPULSE gallery

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The team started calling itself “Tenryu”, due to a nearby river, but it was decided to change this name to Blue Impulse due to the difficulty to pronounce it in Western languages.

 

 

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They were based at Hamamatsu Air Base from 1960 to 1982, when they switched to Matsushima at the same time they changed their aircrafts.

 

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They made 545 aerial demonstrations with the F-86 Sabre and 175 with the T-2 until 1995. Almost all of them on Japanese soil during air shows and important events.

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