Hercules

The 26,400-nautical-mile, round-trip flight delivering an observatory to McMurdo Station took nearly a year to organize, according to the space agency.

Ride along on a Microsoft Flight Simulator journey through history in the H-4 Hercules.

The Air Force grounded some of the Hercules fleet last month, citing cracks in prop assemblies.

FLYING takes you on a must-do tour inside the iconic Hughes Flying Boat.

The cracks in the propeller assembly were discovered after a technician noticed a persistent leak on a C-130H propeller, the Air Force said.

The EC-37B tactical jammer is slated to replace the C-130-based EC-130H Compass Call.

Wave testing of modifications that turn the Air Force Special Operations Command’s (AFSOC) clandestine cargo aircraft into virtual seaplanes capable of water take offs and landings is currently underway, according to a top command official.

The U.S. Air Force has partnered with Merlin Labs to flight test a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules using an autonomous co-pilot.

Contract work will be performed at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Georgia facility, which the company said will also be one of the locations selected for LMXT tanker production.

Santa came early this year for dozens of island communities in the South Pacific, powered not by nine reindeer, but instead four Rolls-Royce turboprop power plants, each generating 4,700 horsepower. Last week, U.S. Air Force crew members concluded an annual weeklong airdrop of food, tools, fishing equipment, and clothing out the back of C-130 Hercules […]