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 ...

The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron C-130 Hercules, affectionately known as Fat Albert, recently returned to its role as the logistics and transport aircraft of the Blue Angels. Fat Albert ...

The U.S. Navy’s elite Blue Angels demonstration team is test flying its new “Fat Albert” transport. The plane was purchased from the Royal Air Force and painted in Blue Angels colors.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Blue Angels are in town, in case you haven’t heard. The elite fighter demonstration squad could be seen roaring over San Francisco Thursday in preparation for the ...

The new paint was gleaming when Fat Albert took off from runway 05 at Cambridge Airport (England) on August 4. Onboard was the Blue Angels’ U.S. Marine Corps flight crew that always flies the C-130.

As you may already know, the U.S. Navy retired last year the former “Fat Albert” C-130T Bu.No. 164763 that flew more than 30,000 hours with the Blue Angels since 2002, becoming famous also for ...

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 ...

"Fat Albert," the Navy's flight demonstration squadron's C-130T Hercules transport plane, made its return with a flat pass during a Friday air show in Pensacola, Florida, where the Blue Angels are ...

Fat Albert is being retired, the Blue Angels announced Wednesday night. 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 ...

As I sat strapped into the cargo bench seats of Fat Albert on Thursday waiting for takeoff, I reminded myself over and over I was with the best pilots in the world — the Blue Angels. Then I ...

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels’ C-130T Hercules supply plane, nicknamed “Fat Albert,” flies near the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz during Fleet Week in San Francisco, California on October 9, 2015.