BLUE ANGELS TOUCHDOWN TO REUNITE A FAMILY NAVY WOMAN TO BE ON SCENE WHEN FLIERS ARRIVE TODAY.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: August 5, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As a college-age ``go-fer'' helping Seafair with the Navy's Blue Angels here eight years ago, Michelle Saari dared to tell a pilot that one day she'd be driving one of those six big jets.

She was close.

When the crack flight demonstration team thunders into Boeing Field at 4:15 p.m. today, Navy Lt. Michelle Saari won't be at the controls of an F/A-18 Hornet. But she will be on the team as the squadron's supply officer aboard ``Fat Albert,'' the pot-bellied C-130 Hercules cargo plane that carries the pilots' support crew and accompanies the big Blues wherever they go.

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