A U.S. Air Force aircrew operates a C-130 Hercules over Fort McCoy air space on Sept. 15, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. According to its Air Force fact sheet, the C-130 Hercules primarily performs the ...
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Why Has the C-130 Hercules Transport Plane Survived So Long?
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules has been the US Air Force’s tactical workhorse for seven decades. Never designed to be glamorous, the C-130 was instead built to last—and to haul, drop, lift, and land ...
BONO, Arkansas — An Arkansas highway turned into a runway for one of the military's biggest planes over the weekend as the Arkansas National Guard performed a historic exercise. Airlift Wing 189 ...
Dan Wilson, fixed wing parking tender with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, helps to launch a C-130 Hercules equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System Aug. 12, 2023, at the Klamath ...
10,000 flight hours in the C-130: the most hours ever recorded by a pilot in the Hercules. On Sept. 24, 2024, Gary Hogg, a seasoned test pilot logged his 10,000th flight hours in the C-130 Hercules ...
Hundreds of Air Force C-130 planes — including 22 assigned to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson — are being checked for possible cracks in the nuts that help fasten the wings to the fuselage. As ...
The Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod has accomplished a key milestone, completing its testing phase on the F-16 aircraft and moving on to evaluations on larger platforms. With plans to examine its ...
The search continues for a missing engine from an Air Force C-130 airplane. The 3,500 pound engine caught on fire last night during a flight, then fell off. No one on the ground was hurt, and the ...
With a pared-down fiscal 2013 budget request on Capitol Hill and delays in the massive Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. Air Force is having to abandon a decade's worth of modernization plans for ...
TEL AVIV—The Israeli Air Force (IAF) chief ended the grounding of C-130 transport aircraft and 707 aerial refueling tankers on July 5. Both types were grounded last month. The grounding followed a ...
The Republic of the Philippines Department of National Defense announced the acquisition of three new C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifters from Lockheed Martin through a Direct Commercial Sale ...
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