The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a true workhorse—a simple, no-frills aircraft that has simply been getting the job done for 70 years. With its four turboprop engines—decades after the onset of ...

Boeing’s YC-14 stands as a bold experiment that, even in cancellation, advanced the science of flight. Boeing’s YC-14 emerged from a United States Air Force (USAF) initiative launched in the mid-1970s ...

At the time Lockheed’s only four-engine design was the Constellation. For the C-130 ... on the flight deck.” Vietnam was a decade-long defining moment for the Hercules. The transport ...

Last July, Reuters reported that Vietnam and the U.S. were “discussing the sale of Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules military transport planes to Hanoi.” The report comes at an important time in ...

The incident involved a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport plane, recently donated to the Ecuadorian Air Force by the United States. According to official statements, the four-engine aircraft began ...

Standing before the first of the state’s enormous, fully equipped C-130 Hercules tanker planes, which prides a 4,000-gallon water capacity and increased speed to fight fires, officials expressed ...

“Egypt is a distinguished C-130 operator, flying its Hercules fleet to support some of the most challenging mission requirements,” Rod McLean, vice president and general manager of Lockheed ...