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 ...8 June 1956 751
Loading demonstration of a Blackburn Beverley C.I. A Fairchild C-119 drops a 105 mm howitzer.
Loading a Max Holste Broussard on a Nord 2510 Noratlas. Attaching a 4.Sin rocket launcher ...
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Top, Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Marietta, below, Beech twins on the line at Wichita. Bottom, DC-IO rear fuselages at Long Beach ...
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 ...nnovation
WHAT NEXT? &&"&
500 miles off the coast of Boston, a
Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport be
came the largest and heaviest aircraft
ever to land on and take off from a U.S.
Navy aircraft carrier
But that's just one of the labors of
the mighty Hercules...
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 ...nsport aeroplanes.
3,750 h.p.: Now in operational service with the U.S. Air Force Tactical
Air Command is the Allison 756 single-shaft engine (right). Driving
an Aeroproducts propeller, it powers the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
Twice 1,000 h.p.: First engine developed by G.E.'s Small Aircraft Engine
Department, the 758 has a variable-stator compressor. A coupled
installation has been made in this Sik...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AECIIDDDICE Tanks. Trucks.
OT JllKrKIJE« Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System [LAPES]...
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 ...nnovation
WHAT NEXT? On a windy October day,
500 miles off the coast of Boston, a
Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport be
came the largest and heaviest aircraft
ever to land on and take off from a U.S.
Navy aircraft carrier
But that's just one of the labors of
the mighty Hercules...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AECIIDDDICE Tanks. Trucks. OT JUKrKI3E» Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES)...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AC CIIDDDICE Tanks Trucks Ur jUKrKljC* Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES3...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AECIIDDDICE Tanks. Trucks.
W jUKrKlJE* Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES)...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AE CIIDDDICE Tanks-Trucks-OT jUKrKI JE« Supplies The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES)...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AC CIIDDDICE Tanks Trucks W jUKrKljE* Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System [LAPES]...
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 ...ckheed-Georgia
Giving shape to imagination.
Pounded by violent winds, a
weather observation crew sam
ples the full force of a hurricane.
Carrying them through to
the calm eye of the storm is a
Lockheed C-130 Hercules air-
lifter. The same rugged aircraft
whose strength has been proved
through years of use in some of
the most inhospitable places on
Earth.
Innovative design refine
ments...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
OF SURPRISE, SS
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES]...
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 ...nnovation
DELIVER THE ELEMENT
AECIRDDDICE Tanks. Trucks. UP jUKrKljC* Supplies. The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter carries
them all. Equally important, it delivers
them even when there's no place or no
time to land.
The C-130's Low Altitude Parachute
Extraction System (LAPES ...
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 ...24
Focus
Five months before Israel Aircraft Industries' Lavi next-generation multirole fighter makes its first
flight, the company is confident that the
aircraft will meet the tough operational
d...
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 ...AINTENANCE
Herculean
support
Providing back-up for
the world's
Lockheed C-130
Hercules is a big and
growing business
GRAHAM WARWICK/ATLANTA
With more than 1,800 Lockheed C-130 Hercules transports in service with 68 countries, supporting the popular transport is big business — and not
just for its manufacturer. Independent com
panies play a major role in sup...
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 ...rs yet.
Detroit Diesel Allison Model 501/T56. Single-
shaft turboprop. With the longest production
history of all US gas-turbine engines, the
military T56 is best known for its application
in the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. It is im
mediately recognisable in a workshop because
of the separate reduction gear, mounted ahead
of the gas-generator. The T56 is still in
production some 28 years afte...
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 ...INDUSTRY
Composite-winged
C-130s fly better
MARIETTA
Two USAF Lockheed C-130
Hercules with composite
centre-sections continue to
log defect-free flights after
nearly nine years of service,
re...
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 ...(Above) Douglas C-133A. (Below) Douglas C-124.
Air Wings and have a range of more than 2,000 miles and "a faster rateof climb than many World War II fighters." Gross weight is some 80
tons, maximum sp...
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 ... director—H. W. Laughland; Chief
engineer—Dr W. G. Watson; Com mercial director—D. McConnell.
Production of major airframe assem blies and components, including fuselage
panels and wing pylons for Lockheed C-130 Hercules; development and produc
tion of light aircraft, including Bulldog military primary trainer; design and
installation of modification to com mercial aircraft including Viscount...
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