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If you want to turn your eyes to the sky or just a heads up on when to expect noise, here's when the Blue Angels will be ...
Fans around the world love the Blue Angels. Super fans love the Blue Angels’ support aircraft Fat Albert. More casual fans may not recognize the plane from its name alone, but anyone who has ...
FOX6 News got the opportunity on Friday, July 18, to fly with the Blue Angels on the team's airplane nicknamed “Fat Albert." ...
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels' C-130, Fat Albert, passes in front of the crowd at the 2018 Pensacola Beach Air Show, July 14, 2018.
The Blue Angels will have faster, more fuel-efficient Fat Albert that is easier to maintain when the team receives a C-130J from the British Royal Air Force next year.
Fat Albert has been with the Blue Angels for 17 years and has flown more than 30,000 hours, in front of millions of fans. News Sports Play Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.
Tens of thousands of Blue Angels fans are already making their way to Pensacola Beach for the culmination of Red, White and Blues Week on Saturday.
The Fat Albert crew members are the techies in the elaborate, airborne play that is a Blue Angels demonstration. They fly equipment and people between air shows, make last-minute dashes to other ...
Katy MacDonald, a public affairs officer with the Blue Angels, makes her way to "Fat Albert," an 80,000-pound C-130T that is part of the Blue Angels crew. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer.
The huge blue and yellow aircraft is nicknamed "Fat Albert." In official military parlance, it's a Lockheed Martin C-130T Hercules. The Marine Corps plane hauls the maintenance and support equipmen… ...
Before the U.S. Navy Blue Angels' aviation display at the Milwaukee Air and Water Show this weekend, the astonishingly agile Fat Albert will showcase its maximum-performance capabilities during a ...
At the annual military extravaganza in San Francisco, CNET flies the friendly skies in the Blue Angels' support craft, a C-130 named Fat Albert. The plane may be chubby, but it gives an intense ride.