Blue Angels Fat Albert Airline on board camera cockpit crew raw flight 16×9 SD
Posted on December 24, 2009
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I shot this on the Panosonic HVX200AP 720P30PN. This raw video is of the nine minute performance over Barksdale Airforce Base. Airshow in Bossier City Louisiana included performances by the Blue Angels and Snow Birds. I’ll try to upload the HD version once I figure out how. It was a wild ride, mostly because I was in the cargo area and couldn’t see what was coming. Thank you to the crew for assistance in strapping in the CAM and patching in audio from the flight. More about the aircraft: An …
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25 Responses to “Blue Angels Fat Albert Airline on board camera cockpit crew raw flight 16×9 SD”
Cool! Great vid. Thanks.
I love when the say “Roll It”
they flew fat albert back in the 70s
I wonder how long this particular aircraft has been in “Fat Albert” service. I was stationed at Roosevelt Roads PR when they did a show there. I was the guy pumping the JP-5. That was the first time I’d ever seen a C-130 put thru it’s paces, and I remember being amazed at it’s adjility, and power…
I hitched a ride in an Air Force C-130 back to Dobbins, and have had a special affection for these aircraft ever since.
Peace brothers…
@clarkdoc Blue angels’ fat albert takeoff. I put it in the video response (warning, turn sound down, engine noise is loud)
what is the video called
The guy in my video is staff sergeant Tommy Zurek, the plane’s loadmaster. The pilots in the front two seats of this video are Captain Edward Jorge (right) and Major Drew Hess or Maj. Brendan Burks on left (I think). Flight engineer GYSGT Ben Chapman did most of the talking to our group.
wow vargjarvis!!!! did u get to talk to any of the fat albert pilots? what were there names?
Roughly 12 of the 28 or so passengers got sick. Each one of the turns creates about 3-4 Gs inside the plane. You have weightlessness after takeoff and diving in for the landing. The Blue Angels are nice enough to provide air sickness bags to everyone. I did not need mine, so I had the IndyCar drivers that were flying sign my barf bag.
vargjarvis, how did the ride feel? did anyone get sick?
They stopped making Jato tanks in the early 1970s. I think they only fire them off during air shows now. I rode with them before 2009 july 4 show in Binghamton, NY. You can’t see all this from the belly. Great video!!
Check out my takeoff and landing videos.
No they stopped using the JATO tanks for some reason. My guess is enviromental safety. but I don’t know for sure. I wish they would continue using JATO’S!!
“Was this a JATO takeoff?” I don’t seem to see any of the crew put “back into their seats with the added acceleration. Great video! A friend of mine was an A/c in Vietnam on the C-130 and used JATO. He said it was one heck of a ride!
Looking for the runway, you can hear him telling the pilot where it is.
what a landing!!
That landing stunned me. I thought all pilots lined up their planes with the runway within a fraction of a compass degree from like two miles out and made a calculated descent, and stayed straight on the runway until they stopped. In this video they approached the runway at at least 10 degrees from the approach end, and there was some yawing once they touched down. Quite similar to my BS landings in flight simulators.
very cool
is this real lol
they are going well fast
Sometimes the engineer (Center) will actually leave his seat during the pushover move. After the maneuver is over, he will settle in the Navigator’s seat which is behind him (located off camera, to the right). Crazy. Hand Salutes to all those in the armed forces, even those in the Marine Corps. Go Navy!
He’s attempting to locate the airfield off the right side.
oh cool makes scence:) cheers m8
A pilot will be able to give a better answer but I believe he is calling out the checkpoint location for navigation. Five o’clock, three o’clock, centerpoint. Otherwise he calls out altitude, airspeed, degree of rotation, etc.
what is the guy on the right doing when they bank? is he looking at the wing?
Means: Airspeed needle is alive
off the peg?