A pilot with the Navy F-18 Super Hornet Legacy Demo Team, an enlisted crew chief with the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team, and an aviator from Columbus (Miss.) Air Force Base will all take part in the Melbourne Air & Space Show in Florida this weekend, March 30-31. All three are south Florida natives. The event will be the North American debut of the F-35 demo team. Inspired by the 9/11 terror attacks, Navy Lt. Dominic “Iceman” Garcia enlisted in the military at 18, just before graduating from Melbourne High School. This weekend he’s pumped to return to the Space Coast to fly an F-18 Super Hornet as one of the headline acts. Eight years ago Paul Ogletree of Merritt Island was working at T.J. Maxx. He’s now the lead dedicated crew chief of the F-35 demo team. AF 2nd Lt. Nicolas “Nico” Del Pozo, a Viera High School graduate, will fly a T-6 Texan II trainer in from CAFB to Melbourne to join the static display of aircraft at the air and space show. His father, Raymond, a retired AF pilot who lives in Suntree, Fla., told Florida Today: "He’s got four sisters and six nephews and nieces, so we’re all going to be out there” to support him. (Source: Florida Today 03/11/19 – 03/28/19)
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