This film from 1966 functions as a U.S. Air Force training film covering the Lockheed C-130 Hercules four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). It explains the aircraft’s specs, capabilities, and adaptabilities, as well as the aircraft’s various models developed throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. The film is produced by Aerospace Audio-Visual Service, Military Airlift Command.
VIDEO HERE (11:55 minutes)
https://youtu.be/5HOhKG8XNvU
ReplyDeleteI love this guy.
Pretty cool. The one I flew on you sat facing the rear. I flew from Nam to the Philippines. Then on to Guam but I don't know what I flew on to Guam. Hell, I don't remember any of the flight to Guam but remember landing and being transported to a big assed white hospital.
ReplyDeleteSerial Number 3 is still flying. It is assigned to the 165th GA Air Guard and is named "The Spirit of Savannah". I have been a passenger on her many times.
ReplyDeleteThat sound and prop blast....yum!
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The engines are upside down.
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It's actually just the prop gearboxes that are upside down and that was done to get the prop tips as high as possible above the ground for rough field operation. The P-3 Orion uses the same T56/501D core engine with the prop gearbox flipped the other way. Good observation nontheless.
DeleteI’ve jumped out of a bunch of them. While it was fun, jumping out of jets was a helluva lot more exciting.
ReplyDeleteWish I had a nickel for every mile I’ve flown on one of those. Seems like every TDY I went on, that was our ride. Only ever had 2 hiccups in flight: a #2 engine generator failure on the way to Moron, Spain and a stuck up main gear on the Klong run while stationed at RAF Bentwaters.
ReplyDeleteFirst C-130 flight 70 years ago today!
ReplyDeleteThat means I'm only slightly older than C-130s.
DeleteYes. It carries a lot of guns and sensors for fire control.
ReplyDeleteAlso, being a C-130 it carries a shit-ton of ammo and can shoot at you all day.
I only had one ride in a cargo 130, from Sigonella, Sicily to Rota, Spain. Noisy af. I spent the rest of my time riding in various flavors of P-3s.
Lockheed was very very good to me.
KNIP….which squadrons….????
DeleteEd357 (VP-5/VP-62)
VQ-2, 77-80
DeleteVP-19, 81-84
PMTC, 84-87
VP-31, 91-93
My son in law spent 6 years in the AF as a C130 mechanic. He says they are amazing piece of technology.
ReplyDeleteAs a CAV officer, Oh the stories I could tell. It’s a love hate relationship with the things. In the end, yeah it’s love. Thanks Kenny you have collected a bunch of true knuckleheads.
ReplyDeleteA little late to the party but I was a loadmaster on C130 Bs in Vietnam (70-71). Over 800 combat hours and countless sorties. Loved the old beast. Dropped one 15,000 pound bomb in the only airdrop mission I did. A lot of passenger, cargo, bladder bird and med evacs.
ReplyDeleteYou can simulate your own Herc ride at home. Sit in an old webbed lawn chair, rock back and forth and have someone scream as loud as they can in your ear. For hours at a time. Good times.
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