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The US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, flew a special passenger at the Florida International Air Show in Punta Gorda, Florida, on 21 March. Retired Rear Adm. James H. Flatley, III, who made twenty-one unarrested full-stop landings and takeoffs in a KC-130F tanker aboard an aircraft carrier as a /test pilot in 1963, got to experience a jet-assisted takeoff in the Blue Angels’ C-130T support aircraft affectionately known as Fat Albert. Flown by an all-Marine crew, Fat Albert has led off Blue Angels shows since 1970. At the end of the flight, the Fat Albert crew presented Flatley with a framed personalized lithograph to commemorate the flight.
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