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Tanker 122, Cal Fire’s first operational C-130H, was on full display Thursday at Cal Fire’s aviation headquarters at McClellan Airport. The aircraft is one of seven C-130 Hercules that the ...
Since 1992, two successive C-130 aircraft named Fat Albert have served as the support aircraft for the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Fat Albert I was a TC-130G ( 151891 ) a former U.S. Navy TACAMO aircraft serving with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Three (VQ-3) before being transferred to the BLUES, [ 58 ] while Fat ...
Data from Air Force Link: EC-130H Compass Call General characteristics Crew: 13 Length: 98 ft 9 in (30.10 m) Wingspan: 132 ft 7 in (40.41 m) Height: 38 ft 3 in (11.66 m) Wing area: 37 sq ft (3.4 m 2) Airfoil: root: NACA 64A318 ; tip: NACA 64A412 Empty weight: 101,000 lb (45,813 kg) Max takeoff weight: 155,000 lb (70,307 kg) Fuel capacity: around 100000 liters Powerplant: 4 × Allison T56-A-15 ...
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2010–11, [18] US Air Force Factsheet [19] General characteristics. Crew: 6+ (Pilot, CoPilot, combat systems officer, mission communications commander; loadmaster, five electronic communications systems operators) Length: 97 ft 9 in (29.79 m) Wingspan: 132 ft 7.2 in (40.416 m) Height: 38 ft 10 in (11.84 m)
The LC-130 started as a prototype model developed by modifying a C-130A with skis in 1956. [2] After testing in 1957, 12 additional C-130A models were modified with skis and hydraulics under the designation of C-130D. [2] [3] In 1959 the first four factory equipped, ski-based Hercules were produced under the Navy designation of UV-1L. These C ...
USCG HC-130H flying in Hawaii, 2015. A USAF HC-130P refuels an HH-3E Jolly Green Giant, 1968. USCG HC-130H on International Ice Patrol duties. The Lockheed HC-130 is an extended-range, search and rescue (SAR)/combat search and rescue (CSAR) version of the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, with two different versions operated by two separate services in the U.S. armed forces.
The aircraft was then retrofitted in 2018 by Coulson Aviation for the purpose of aerial firefighting and had a 4,000-U.S.-gallon (15,000 L) firefighting tank system installed. The aircraft had a total time-in-service of 11,888 hours, 683 of which were spent firefighting since its conversion in 2018. [5]
The Philippine defense secretary says at least 17 people have been killed and 40 rescued in the crash of a Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops in a southern province. Defense ...