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.

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 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 will, of course, headline the four-day event, which kicks off with "Breakfast with the Blues" on Wednesday, ...

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 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.

The Blue Angels are looking for a new Fat Albert. The Navy hasn't decided which aircraft will replace Fat Albert. A Royal Air Force C-130 J is a possibility.