Posted on 04/19/2010 6:35:01 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
.S. Air Force Chief of Staff has delivered first of 28 Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules to the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess Air Force Base.
"The delivery of this C-130J and others like it is a step toward modernising our airlift inventories , we’ll continue to make progress in this area over the next few years,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz said in an Air Forse official new release.
The 317th Airlift Group will replace its existing Dyess fleet of 33 aging C-130 from the newly developed aircraft C-130J
Lockheed will complete the final delieveries of C-130J Super Hercules fleet by 2012.
"We are seeing more and more that when the time comes to replace aging C-130 fleets, or establish new fleets, the choice is made to acquire the Super Hercules. There is no other airlifter that has the capability, flexibility and proven track record of the C-130J, “said Ross Reynolds, Lockheed Martin vice president for C-130 programs in the release.
“From airlift recapitalization in the U.S., to the growing list of countries selecting the C-130J, this aircraft has the capability to meet whatever operational challenges the future holds," he added.
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Super Hercules bump.
Scimitar blades and five at that.
That is a heck of a resemblance! Clearly, you know your historical milcraft! :)
Any four-engine prop plan is very similar to the B-29?
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Awakened and filled with a terrible resolve.
Six blade, powered by Allison.
If you say so
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.”
I don’t, but apparently cavador does.
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.
Its a very good plane.
I kept looking at the number of blades, but all I could see were five.
Thanks. That is a very impressive array.
Didn’t know Allison and Rolls were in cahoots! The engine model number, AE 2100 D3 is the same.
I just snagged the pic from Wikipedia.
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