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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1341.PDF
14 September 1956 493 1 Radar AN/APN 59. 2 Forward-retracting twin nosewheels. 3 Extra forward/downward windows. 4 Nosewheel steering-wheel. 5 Flight engineer behind pilot and co-pilot. 6 Navigator. 7 Overhead switch groups (air condition- ing, fuel, fire emergency, and engine control panels). 8 Neso glass windscreens with two wipers. 9 Escape hatches. 10 Crew entry, and stairs to flight-deck. 11 Forward freight door, 7ft 3in x 6ft Oin. 12 Intake to 13. 13 Auxiliary gas-turbine compressor (engine starting air, emergency hydraulic pump, D.C. generator). 14 SCR-718c radio-altimeter antennae. 15 Vertically retracting main undercarriage. 16 Fore-and-aft member. 17 Hydraulic motor driving 18. 18 Screw-shafting. 19 10.000 Ib cargo tie-down points (5.000 Ib and 25,000 Ib points at sides). 20 Windstream deflector, paratroop pro- tection. 21 Jato bottle mountings, four each side. 22 Paratroop door with floor extension. 23 Counterbalanced paratroop-doors. 24 Integral loading ramp. 25 Jacks for 24. 26 After-belly door hydraulically-raised for loading. Hinge point of 26. Hot-air ice elimination. Elevator hydraulic booster. Rudder hydraulic booster. V.O.R. antenna. Dielectric panels. Battery compartment. Integrally stiffened, machined skin be- tween spars. Firewalls. Fuel bay end-ribs (total internal fuel 4,230 Imp. gal.). Life-rafts. Flap screw jacks. Hydraulic motor drives shafting. Production breaks. Pylon tanks, 1,166 Imp. gal. each. Single pressure refuelling point in star- board wheel blister. Allison T56-A-1 turboprops with separate reduction gearbox. Jet-pipe outlet at lower-rear of nacelle. 15ft diameter airscrews, electrically de- iced. Fuselage max. pressure differential 7j Ib/sq in. Top cowling panels hinged, others de- tachable. Airflow through oil coolers. LOCKHEED C-110A HERCULES Four Allison T56-A1 turboprops of 3,750 e.h.p. Dimension*: span, 132.6ft; length, 95.2ft; overall height, 38.3ft; gross wing area, 1,745 sq ft; dihedral at 18 per cent chord, 2 deg 30 min; mean aerodynamic chord, 164.5in; track, 14.27ft; airscrew ground clearance, 5.0ft. Weight*: maximum weight, 124,200 Ib; take-off weight, 120,100 Ib, with a limit flight load-factor of 3.0; landing weight (sinking speed 8ft/sec), 110,000 Ib; (sinking speed 9ft/sec), 96,000 Ib; zero-fuel weight (load factor 2.5), 99,100 Ib; (load factor 3.0), 87,100 1b; operating weight empty, 59,8001b to 63,8001b, dependent upon operating role. Personnel: crew (normal), 4; troops, 92; paratroops, 64; litters, 70, with two attendants; passengers, 55.
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