Blue Angels pilot Scott Laux booted from elite Navy flight team for ‘failing to uphold standards’

Maj. Scott Laux has been removed from the US Navy’s Blue Angels and will not perform for the rest of the season, the Chief of Naval Air Training confirmed. The Navy said he failed to uphold the standards expected of squadron members, but has not explained what prompted the decision.

Laux was absent from the team’s recent NAS Pensacola Homecoming Air Show, where the Blue Angels flew five jets instead of their usual six. He joined the squadron in September 2024 and had defended its low-flying displays after a July flyover sent beach equipment and sand across Pensacola Beach. A Marine aviator, he previously flew F/A-18 Hornets and F-35C Lightning IIs and served as the team’s narrator in 2025.