The C-130 Hercules, a workhorse of the U.S. military, has achieved legendary status with over 2,700 aircraft produced and 70 ...

The workhorse of the Air Force combat airlift fleet, the C-130 Hercules has been in service for more than half a century. Designed specifically to transport troops and equipment in the combat zone ...

Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen ...

Enter the C-130 Hercules. Military activity relating to the Arctic Circle has been in the news lately. With the ice caps melting, new sea lanes opening, and new natural resources becoming ...

For the C-130, Hawkins says, “there was no preceding model. A clean piece of paper.” Hawkins and his team sized the new airplane around high-use equipment. The height (nine feet) and width (10 ...

An engineer works on the ALQ-167 Angry Kitten pod attached to a C-130. (ANG AFRC Test Center (AATC)) The US Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (AATC) is testing the ALQ-167 ...

He sent out word to every museum and organization that might save the airplane, but couldn’t find a taker—some already had other D-Day C-47s; others simply thought Scales was wrong about the ...

Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a massive C-130 airplane passing overhead. He craned his head back and ...