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Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules October 22, 2012 The C-130 is a four-turboprop military transport. A number of variants have been produced, including the AC-130 gunship and the KC-130 tanker.
Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules is celebrating 70 years since its first flight. It is the longest-running military aircraft production program in history, according to Rod McLean, general ...
The story of how the Lockheed-Martin C-130 was gifted one of history's largest conventional bombs is one of military strategy and perhaps some morbid curiosity.
The service has been a longstanding Hercules operator and one of the first to take delivery of C-130Js, having started operating the type in 1958 with C-130As before adopting the “E” and “H ...
Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered the first of eight C-130J-30 Super Hercules – which added 15 feet to the fuselage, increasing usable space (two more pallets of equipment) in the ...
A Lockheed C-130 Hercules touches down during pattern work at KCGI. Flying out of Little Rock, Arkansas, the big transport made several close-in circuits and practice approaches to our 28 & 10 ...
Lockheed Martin (then just Lockheed) designed the C-130 Hercules in the early 1950s as a four-engine tactical airlifter with a ramp in the back for loading large, otherwise oversize cargo.
Lockheed Martin delivered the 2,700th C-130 Hercules airlifter, built at the company’s Marietta plant. This plane is, more specifically, a KC-130J Super Hercules tanker operated by the U.S ...
The C-130 is a four-engine, turboprop-powered military transport. Several variants have been produced, including the AC-130 gunship and the KC-130 tanker. First flight of a C-130 occurred in 1954 ...