This is what the picture for the facebook group depicts. It’s the Blue Angel’s support plane, a C-130 named “Fat Albert” taking off using rockets to assist it getting off the ground.
Amazing how fast the thing climbs.
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Commercial Airplane Pictures
SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 Touches Down At SFA
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to do some plane spotting over in San Francisco. I arrived early enough that I was able to snag the very best spot. I captured a rather mundane picture of a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 touching down at SFA, that just didn’t speak to me. I liked that [...]
Military Airplane Pictures
2011 Aviation Highlights Part 1
This is the first of, I believe 3 parts, of my personal 2011 aviation highlights. This was a very active year with my aviation hobby as I got to see planes that I hadn’t seen before, I went to a couple of airshows and also went plane spotting out of state. Part 1, comes from [...]
This is what I remember most about the Blue Angels show I saw in Brunswick back in ’98. When I saw it they did the rocket climb while they were already flying instead of at take-off (take-off looks more impressive), and I don’t think they painted the C-130 back then.