The C-130 known affectionately as "Fat Albert" plays a key role with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels.

FOX6 News got the opportunity on Friday, July 18, to fly with the Blue Angels on the team's airplane nicknamed “Fat Albert." ...

FOX6's Aaron Maybin got the opportunity to ride aboard the Blue Angels' Fat Albert -- a C-130 aircraft -- and experience weightlessness.

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.

The Blue Angels will add three new Super Hornet pilots, a new Fat Albert pilot and three more officers to the team in 2026.

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.

The Blue Angels are back for their first hometown air show of the 79th season, and they're bringing back some new and ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels "Fat Albert" C-130 Hercules lands after a successful demonstration at the Smoky Mountain Air Show at McGhee Tyson ANG Base, TN, April 16, 2016.

It's not hard to see why the Blue Angels' pet cargo plane was dubbed "Fat Albert." Alongside the nimble F-18 Hornet fighter jets, which will spin and soar above legions of spectators during Fleet ...