Ride Of The Super Herks

Posted 2 July 2012

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Photo by TSgt. Bradley Church

The largest C-130J Super Hercules formation flight in history was carried out on 2 July 2012 as sixteen crews from the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess AFB, Texas, took part in a mass airdrop training exercise. The simulated mission was an airdrop above two different drop zones. The first drop reinforced ground troops and the second placed heavy equipment on a drop zone to setup a headquarters area. The two C-130J flying units at Dyess, the 39th and 40th Airlift Squadrons, now operate twenty-one Super Hercules aircraft with another seven aircraft scheduled to be delivered. When deliveries are completed by mid 2013, Dyess will have the largest C-130J fleet in the world.

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