Willis Hawkins And The Genesis Of The Hercules
14 August 2014
Willis Hawkins had many highlights during his nearly fifty-year career with Lockheed, but he considered the C-130 Hercules one of his greatest successes.
Cool Million
16 September 2013
The worldwide community of C-130J Super Hercules operators surpassed the one million flight hour milestone in late April 2013. The million hour mark came slightly more than seventeen years after Lockheed Martin test pilots Lyle Schaefer and Bob Price took the first J-model aloft for the first time on 5 April 1996 from Dobbins ARB in Marietta, Georgia. That aircraft, an extended fuselage length Super Hercules, was delivered to the Royal Air Force after testing was completed.
Dyess C-130J JPADS
15 May 2013
The Joint Precision Airdrop System, or JPADS, is a multipart, GPS-based method that allows for highly accurate parachute airdrop of cargo loads of various sizes from altitudes as high as 25,000 feet. And, with only a forty-minute flying time from Dyess AFB, Texas, to the extensive training ranges and drop zones at Fort Hood, the 317th Airlift Group has become a recognized leader in C-130 precision airdrop operations.
Harvest HAWK
12 November 2012
This Hercules packs a punch! Harvest HAWK is the armed intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance version of the Marine Corps KC-130J tanker that has proven very succesful in Afghanistan.
C-130 Photos
1 January 2012
Collection of C-130 Hercules and C-130J Super Hercules photos.
Hercules U
9 December 2010
The 314th Air Wing at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, trains approximately 1,800 C-130E/H and C-130J aircrew members annually—about 450 daily—from the US and from nearly thirty-five countries around the world. Close to 1,600 Hercules maintainers from the US and from more than fifteen allied nations are also trained every year.
Norse Goddesses
1 April 2010
Delivery of the first C-130J to Gardermoen came only eighteen months after the US and Norwegian government representatives signed the contract for the Super Hercules.
On The Fast Track
1 July 2009
The squadron's new C-130J flagship, flown by US Air Forces in Europe commander Gen. Roger Brady, made a spectacular entrance, cruising low over Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
Fifty Years Of Hercules Down Under
1 January 2009
Accompanying image gallery for the Code One Magazine article "Fifty Years Of Hercules Down Under", which appeared in the First Quart 2009 issue of Code One.
