Lockheed's C-130 Hercules landed on an aircraft carrier in 1963, setting a record as the largest and heaviest aircraft to do so. The aircraft conducted 29 touch-and-go and 21 full-stop landings ...
This is rare air. An airline flew two civilian C-130s airliners (L-100) with a full cabin, airline windows, and overhead bins ...
Indeed, there seemed to be a plethora of ideas for how next Lockheed Martin, the developer of the C-130 and AC-130, could spin another variant off ... something we take for granted today ...
The C-130 cargo plane was first designed in 1951. More than seven decades later, one of the plane's latest models, the MC-130J, is being fitted with a new weapons system that is changing how the ...