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C-130 Hercules

A community portal about C-130 Hercules with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop cargo aircraft and the main tactical airlifter for military forces worldwide. Over... [more]

A community portal about C-130 Hercules with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop cargo aircraft and the main tactical airlifter for military forces worldwide. Over 40 models and variants of the Hercules serve with more than 50 nations. By December 2006 the C-130 will become the third aircraft to mark 50 years of continuous use with its original primary customer.

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← Previous revision Revision as of 14:54, 6 January 2010 Line 73: Line 73: The equivalent model for export to the [[United Kingdom|UK]] is the '''C-130K''', known by the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) as the '''Hercules C.1'''. The '''C-130H-30''' ('''Hercules C.3''' in RAF service) is a stretched version of the original Hercules, achieved by inserting a 100 in (2.54 m) plug aft of the cockpit...  
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There were so many things I learned about the Hercules C-130 and only so much room for asides during sim sessions that this topic has been held over for another blog entry. If you have any questions about the airplane that I can't answer, we can draw on John and knowledgeable readers to find out. I feel a little guilty about setting a poor example, in that from beginning to end we had almost no plan for the sim session. The time, time of day...  
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POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C., Dec. 24, 2009 – You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen. But on Dec. 6, it was not a team of reindeer, but Air Force Maj. Jeff Dasher, a navigator in the 95th Airlift Squadron here, who guided the mission for the 440th Airlift Wing's C-130 Hercules that flew a group of “Soldier Santas” across the morning sky. The first paratrooper to jump waits for the "green light" on board a C-130 Hercules Dec. 6, 2009...  
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MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan, Vice Commander, 17th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Africa, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, today accepted the tenth of 14 Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) C-130Js to be based at Ramstein. The USAF Europe C-130Js based there also support the airlift needs of Africa Command (AFRICOM).  
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Ramstein Air Base Airmen delivered the base's last E-model C-130 Hercules Nov. 2 to Powidz Air Base, Poland, marking the end of 38 years of service to the U.S. Air Force but the newest addition to the Polish air force's blossoming fleet of strategic airlifters.C-130 tail No. 1299 touched down and as the aircrew exited the aircraft Polish air force Brig. Gen. Tadeusz Mikutel, the 33rd Air Base  
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In the photo: Petty Officer 1st Class Darril Kiest, an aviation survival technician stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, lowers the station's national ensign to half mast during a morning color ceremony as others pay their respects Sunday Nov. 1, 2009. The ceremony was held in honor of seven coastguardsmen who were lost at sea when a Coast Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft suffered a mid-air collision with a Marine Corps AH-1W...  
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MARIETTA, Ga., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Demonstrating the increase in the C-130J build and delivery rate, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) simultaneously delivered two C-130Js on Nov. 19 to two different customers - a C-130J to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and a KC-130J to the U.S. Marine Corps. The USAFEread more  
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RAAF C-130J-30, flares (click to view full) The C-130 Hercules remains one of the longest-running aerospace manufacturing programs of all time. Since 1956, over 40 models and variants have served as... [summary]  
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Clean-up and response: Tidying more links. ← Previous revision Revision as of 14:08, 2 November 2009 Line 20: Line 20: On August 23, 2009, a [[C-130 Hercules|Hercules]] aircraft sprayed 10,000 litres of [[chemical]] [[dispersant]] onto parts of the slick, with ongoing aerial spraying with dispersants being the primary early response to the spill. On August 23, 2009, a [[C-130 Hercules|Hercules...  
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An Italian military C-130 Hercules transport plane crashed on takeoff during a training flight near Pisa on Monday, killing all five people on board, according to an Agence France Presse report.  
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