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More Oceana Action

Captured at NAS Oceana in 2007 and uploaded to YouTube by Obin Robinson.

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Ride Along in the Cockpit

Shot aboard Fat Albert in the cockpit during the Quad Cities Airshow, this ride along video was uploaded to YouTube by GravitySlave.

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Last JATO Shot for Fat Albert

Captured during the 2009 Homecoming Airshow at NAS Pensacola, this is the final Fat Albert JATO takeoff ever. It was uploaded to YouTube by ZINGER AVIATION MEDIA.

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No JATO- But Still Impressive

This video was captured during an airshow at NAS Corpus Christi in 2010. There’s no JATO shot but the ride still looks like a blast! This video was uploaded to YouTube by John Garza.

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Bill Walton
Bill Walton
Bill Walton is a life-long aviation historian, enthusiast, and aircraft recognition expert. As a teenager Bill helped his engineer father build an award-winning T-18 homebuilt airplane in their up-the-road from Oshkosh Wisconsin basement. Bill is a freelance writer, screenwriter, and humorist, an avid sailor, fledgling aviator, engineer, father, uncle, mentor, teacher, coach, and Navy veteran. Bill lives north of Houston TX under the approach path to KDWH runway 17R, which means he gets to look up at a lot of airplanes. A very good thing.

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