Blue Angels Lockheed C-130T Hercules Fat Albert.
This coloured C-130 Hercules aircraft is Fat Albert, the Blue Angels' transport aircraft. This aircraft gives a solo display prior to the show of the 6 Blue Angels F/A-18's. In November 2011, I was lucky enough to witness this solo display in the cockpit of Fat Albert during an airshow at NAS Jacksonville.
This photo was taken on 8 November 2014 during the Blue Angels' Home Coming Airshow at NAS Pensacola in Florida. The aircraft in the photo was replaced by a C-130J in 2020.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…