This is the C-130 Hercules. It has plenty of variants a few are transports for troops, vehicles, or supplies. Another is the AC-130 Hercules which is ground attack. It uses a howitzer cannon and a larger caliber gatling gun. There was one variant that had rockets to give it a fast take off like JATO (jet assisted take off). It was designed to land in a soccer stadium to rescue prisoners. it was used only in tests and it crashed, no one was killed. The Hercules has served for a very long time and I'm sure it will serve much longer.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Heavy Hercules
This is the C-130 Hercules. It has plenty of variants a few are transports for troops, vehicles, or supplies. Another is the AC-130 Hercules which is ground attack. It uses a howitzer cannon and a larger caliber gatling gun. There was one variant that had rockets to give it a fast take off like JATO (jet assisted take off). It was designed to land in a soccer stadium to rescue prisoners. it was used only in tests and it crashed, no one was killed. The Hercules has served for a very long time and I'm sure it will serve much longer.
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Trenton, What awesome photos you have taken! I'm very impressed with you knoledge of the crafts and your insite. thanks for shareing them I'm going to forward it on.
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Hey Trent!
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew as much about ANYTHING as you do about planes. That is soooo cool. Keep it up!
That picture reminds me of the C-119 in Flight of the Phoenix. Are they at all similar?
ReplyDeleteThe C-119 was designed and built by Fairchild but the C-130 was designed and built by Lockheed martin. There aren't any really cool similarities, at least as far as I know.
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