Tagged: JATO

January 9, 2021

Blue Angels Homecoming 2009, the Last JATO For “Bert”

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the New Orleans area in 2005, it set in motion a grand finale event in 2009. When the storm hit NAS New Orleans as the story goes, a large part of a cache of...

Airshow / demo teams / europe / fighters / Formation Flying / military / Transports / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

March 24, 2016

Seventy Years Strong: The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels

On April 24, 1946, shortly after the Second World War ended, Admiral Chester Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, directed that a “flight demonstration team be organized within the Naval Advanced Training Command to represent the Navy at air...

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September 20, 2009

Fat Albert last JATO??

A prominent C-130T aircraft is Fat Albert, the support aircraft for the US Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Although Fat Albert supports a Navy squadron, it is operated by the US Marine Corps (USMC) and its crew consists...