U.S. Air Force gets 28 C-130J Super Hercules

Brahmand.com ^ | 4/18/2010 | Brahmand.com

[GeronL]

Super Hercules bump.

[freedumb2003]

All milcraft deserve a gander"

[cavador]

Very similar to the famous B-29

[AceMineral]

Scimitar blades and five at that.

[freedumb2003]

That is a heck of a resemblance! Clearly, you know your historical milcraft! :)

[Dan Middleton]

Any four-engine prop plan is very similar to the B-29?

[Bosco]

I see your B-29 and raise you a B-36...

[null and void]

Re you tag line:

Awakened and filled with a terrible resolve.

[SgtBob]

Six blade, powered by Allison.

[Oztrich Boy]

Any four-engine prop plan is very similar to the B-29

If you say so

[12Gauge687]

Having been inside both a C-130 and a B-29, I would have to say, “Not at all. Everything from the landing gear to the cockpit to the structural frame to the shape of the wings is different.”

[Dan Middleton]

I don’t, but apparently cavador does.

[Eye of Unk]

I sold a well used but operational concrete mixer to an outfit that needed one out in the bush up here in Alaska, no roads or river to bring it in, so it was a type that the drum assembly and drive was on a separate sub frame.

So I removed the drum/frame and then had that put on a lowboy trailer and I drove the truck to Anchorage where I removed the exhaust pipe and the mirrors and it was loaded on a C-130, the drum/frame was I believe put on a special cargo pallet and they must have just winched it in I guess.

Took two trips but they delivered the two parts and assembled it in the middle of no-where for some project.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Its a very good plane.

[AceMineral]

I kept looking at the number of blades, but all I could see were five.

[skeptoid]

Also six for the RAF Hercules C.4 with Rolls-Royce AE 2100D3 power

[AceMineral]

Thanks. That is a very impressive array.

[SgtBob]

Didn’t know Allison and Rolls were in cahoots! The engine model number, AE 2100 D3 is the same.

[skeptoid]

I did'nt either.

I just snagged the pic from Wikipedia.