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Aviation History
1973
1973 - 0907.PDF
FLIGHT International. 5 April 1973 Within this simple shape 28 nations found the worlds most versatile airlifter. It carries cattle in Colombia. Bull dozers in Brazil. People in Peru. In other versions it's America's leading tactical transport: troop carrier, tanker, mapper, rescue plane, and an airship of many other missions. Its labors are varied and immense, as befits a plane built in 45 models and named Hercules. Some use JM2 ! it to hunt ice bergs. Or seed clouds. Other models carry the commerce of industry, even pipe 60 feet long. Abroad Hercules serves as a country builder, hauling 45,000 pound loads to remote areas closed to other aircraft, landing on rough runways in only 2100 feet. Then trucks and tractors rumble down its low ramp ready to use. Generators and portable hospitals slide out of its huge rear door. In jungle, desert and mountain areas, Hercules helps countries carve out farmlands and new cities. Even the Antarctic is home to Hercules. There it changes wheels for skis at the flick of a switch. About the only thing this master of many missions hasn't done is land on water. But it could. The 46th model could bean amphibian. Thus far 1200 have been built and new ver- I sions of * this amaz ing airlifter continue to roll off Lockheed assembly lines. Lockheed - Georgia A Division of Lockheed Aircraft Corooration Marietta, Georgia
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