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 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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...