2015
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The Army and Air Force planes, which were carrying 13 people on separate training exercises, declared emergencies and landed safely, the report said.The Army Special Operations Command C-27J and the Air Force C-130H collided about eight miles south of Camp Mackall around 8:22 p.m. on Dec. 1.The C-27 was traveling from the Laurinburg-Maxton airport to two drop zones for simulated airdrops. The C-130 was performing an escape maneuver to egress the Luzon Drop Zone after completing a visual Container Delivery System airdrop, according to the report, which the newspaper obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.The right wingtip of the C-27 grazed the right underside of …
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EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (IS&S) (NASDAQ: ISSC) completed the flight testing and customer delivery of its NextGen Flight Management System (FMS) on the C-130 aircraft. As part of a fleet-wide flight deck installation program, the first plane has been completed and accepted by our customer. The second aircraft has commenced modification. This extensive flight deck upgrade transforms the cockpits on both C-130 and L-100-30 aircraft, integrating legacy and newly installed equipment into a common advanced cockpit. The transformation makes the aircraft Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) and N…
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A week after telling Congress it had a different “interpretation” of the 2015 defense authorization legislation directing the service to implement the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program, the Air Force seems to be complying. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s air land subcommittee on Thursday, Lt. Gen. James Holmes, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, said there have been “meetings with [congressional] staffers” in recent weeks in which USAF agreed to do the AMP. USAF killed the program two years ago, but Congress insisted it be carried out, even threatening a 15 percent hit on USAF readiness accounts if it refused. “Our int…
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MARIETTA, Ga., March 24, 2015 – Three variants of the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft were recently delivered to U.S. military operators from the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Aeronautics facility located here. On March 19, a U.S. Air Force crew took delivery of and ferried an MC-130J Commando II Special Operations tanker aircraft that is assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command’s 353rd Special Operations Group at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (12-5763 c/n 5763)Photo by Andrew McMurtrie. On March 24, a U.S. Air Force crew ferried an HC-130J Combat King II personnel recovery aircraft assigned to Air Combat Command’s (ACC) 347th Rescue Group at Moody Air Force Base, Geo…
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HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen, assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing's Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight, ready one of the wing's modified C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft for an aerial spray sortie here, March 17, 2015. The sortie over target areas on the nearby Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) was one of 24 sorties, or flights, applying approximately 32,075 gallons of herbicide to more than 1539 acres of ground to eradicate invasive weeds from the bombing ranges. As home of the Department of Defense's (DoD) only large-area fixed wing aerial spray capability and dedicated aerial spray maintenance flight, the 910th's Citizen Ai…
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynden Air Cargo's L-100 Hercules aircraft is being put to use flying relief supplies to Vanuatu after Tropical Cyclone Pam devastated the South Pacific Islands March 13. Communications company Digicel Fiji chartered a Lynden Air Cargo plane from Nadi, Fiji, to the capital city of Port Vila within days of the cyclone. It was loaded with food rations and technical equipment to repair towers and networks to restore communications throughout the islands. Now working with the World Food Program (WFP), Lynden continues to pick up more supplies from Brisbane, Australia, for air delivery to Port Vila in support of humanitarian ef…
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The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City invited a number of Vietnamese reporters to a session that introduced the features of the C-130 Hercules aircraft coded 1459 at Da Nang International Airport, according to Infonet, the news website of the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications.The turboprop military transport aircraft is 29.3 meters long and 11.9 meters tall, and has a wingspan of 39.7 meters, Tuoi Tre Online said.It has four Allison T56-A-15 propeller jet engines with a capacity of 4,591 HP and can fly at 366 kph in all weather conditions, the newswire added.This kind of plane is mainly used to transport people an…
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French Ministry of Defence, will place orders for American C-130J according to French internet page Air&Cosmos. Airbus is behind delivery schedule but this does not seem to be main problem. A400M aircraft lacks in-flight refuelling capability for helicopters. The director of Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), “General Directorate for Armament Laurent Collet-Billon stated that the turmoil of the propellers of the A400M, is too dangerous to refuel helicopters.A team from the DGA is currently in the United States to negotiate the acquisition of C-130J Lockheed Martin that may reach several hundred million USD.In 2014, when delivery of non-compliant A400Ms was refus…
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BILOXI -- For years, a strange problem with the U.S. Air Force's C-130 aircraft had pilots and crews reporting sickness, discomfort and, in some cases, excruciating pain after routine flight missions. The phenomenon remained a mystery until February, when a handful of reservists at Keesler Air Force Base took the initiative to solve the mystery. They made a tiny discovery that's affecting airplanes worldwide.The problem was with the pressurization system on the C-130 Hercules -- the longest-produced and perhaps most-popular aircraft in military history. The versatile airplane serves as an attack gunship, a troop transport, a surveillance plane and many other roles.Keesler…
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- The National Interagency Fire Center has made the request to increase the number of DOD Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130s aiding in the suppression of California wildland fires from two to four Aug. 14. Two Air Force Reserve MAFFS equipped C-130 Hercules from the 302nd Airlift Wing here along with aircrews and support personnel from the Colorado Reserve wing have been activated and performing fire-fighting missions from McClellan Air Field, California, since Aug. 3. The Air Force Reserve C-130s will be joined by aircraft and crews from the 153rd AW, Wyoming Air National Guard and the 145th AW, North Carolina ANG. As …
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MANSFIELD, Ohio -- In keeping with tradition, the 179th Airlift Wing dedicated another one of its aircraft to a local community--this time recognizing the City of Shelby. A dedication ceremony was held Thursday afternoon at the 179th Airlift Wing, drawing attendance from several Shelby officials. A total of eight C-130 Hercules aircraft exist at the base, each of which are to be named in honor of a local community. So far, planes have been dedicated to Mansfield, Lexington, Clear Fork Valley, Ontario and Shelby. On the 179th's list for future dedications include Ashland, Crestline and Galion. Read more... View full article
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The first flight of an Israeli air force Lockheed Martin C-130H equipped with a new avionics suite is expected to take place soon, according to a senior officer from the service. "The new suite will make the cockpit very similar to operate to that of the C-130J we have recently put into service," says the officer, with work on the legacy transport almost complete. Israel's C-130H avionics upgrade is being conducted by Elbit Systems at the air force's Nevatim base. The package of enhancements will allow the tactical transport aircraft to meet the stringent international Communications Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management standard for operations in commercia…
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The Air Force has joined the battle against the Rocky Fire north of San Francisco. Firefighters have gone to Herculean efforts to try to stop the massive fire, but the blaze is not close to being contained. The fire scorched 62,000 acres as of Monday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Four Air Force C-130s equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System are operating out of McClellan Airfield in Sacramento to provide the equivalent of close air support to firefighters on the ground. Two of the C-130s are with the 302nd Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve unit based at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado; and the other two C-130s come from the 146th Airlift …
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HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- The first AC-130J Ghostrider landed here July 29, making it Air Force Special Operations Command’s first AC-130J. After completing the initial developmental test and evaluation by the 413th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, the aircraft will be flown by the 1st Special Operations Group Detachment 2 and maintained by the 1st Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron during its initial operational tests and evaluations at Hurlburt Field. “Putting it through these tests will allow us to wring out the AC-130J in a simulated combat environment, instead of the more rigid flight profiles in formal developmental testing…
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US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) plans to fit high-energy-laser active denial systems onto some of the AC-130J Ghostrider gunships currently under development. "We're not always going to kill people in our sights, sometimes we just want them to stop what they're doing … active denial weaponry is key to all of this," Lieutenant General Bradley Heithold, AFSOC commander, told the Directed Energy Summit, as quoted by IHS Jane's. The Active Denial System (ADS), often referred to as heat or pain rays, is meant to quickly heat the surface of the skin causing unbearable pain by firing a beam of 94-Ghz microwaves. The beam affects only the surface of the skin bu…
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The US Air Force has kept some Lockheed Martin AC-130U gunships marked for retirement for use as directed energy weapon testbeds as the service pursues airborne lasers for offensive and defensive uses. Maj Gen Jerry Harris, vice-chief of Air Combat Command, says a number of gunships that would have otherwise been sent to the boneyard are now being used to test emerging directed energy technologies, like lasers and microwave energy guns. “We have a requirement for a minimum number of gunships,” Harris said at a 28 July Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments directed energy summit in Washington. “We have some additional U-models we will fly longer for test beds.” …
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C-130J 10-5771 c/n 5771 was delivered to the 61st Airlift Squadron 9 July. The last of 19th AW's 28 programmed C-130Js is scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2016. Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Harry Brexel, Little Rock AFB Facebook Page View full article
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The U.S. Forest Service is making one of their HC-130H air tankers, Tanker 118, available for wildfire suppression missions this week. The aircraft is one of seven that are being transferred from the Coast Guard to the USFS, but the titles for all of them still remain with the Coast Guard. The work on Tanker 118 to completely convert it into an air tanker is not complete. It needs a conventional internal gravity-based retardant tank, and obviously, a paint job that will hopefully include some professionally crafted tanker numbers on the tail. Tanker 118 arrived at McClellan Airport on June 17, where maintenance, installation and testing of the Modular Airborne Firefight…
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The Air Force’s prototype AC-130J Ghostrider gunship is grounded, pending investigation of an in-flight incident that occurred during a test sortie from Eglin AFB, Fla., earlier this year, according to Air Force Materiel Command. The aircraft “returned to base and safely landed without further incident or any injuries to the crew" after the April 21 mishap, the command told Air Force Magazine in a statement on Monday. AFMC officials on June 15 elevated the accident from a Class-C mishap after "structural analysis suggested damage greater than the $2 million monetary threshold for a Class-A incident," reads the statement. The AC-130J prototype suffered a similar mishap whe…
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STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, SCOTIA, N.Y. - Three New York Air National Guard LC-130s and nearly 75 Airmen from the 109th Airlift Wing will depart for Kangerlussuaq (gang-er-loose-sue-arc), Greenland, Monday, July 13 in support of the National Science Foundation. The wing has been providing their annual Greenland support this year since April; Monday will mark the fifth rotation. Mission support to the Arctic region continues through the summer. WHO: About 75 Airmen, including aircrews, LC-130 aircraft maintainers, cargo processors and other support personnel, will deploy for the fifth rotation of the Greenland season. WHAT: Every summer, Airmen and aircraft with t…
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The 440th Airlift Wing will live on, at least for another year. Air Force Reserve Command has pushed back the inactivation of the unit until at least fall 2016. The 440th had been slated to be inactivated in September, the latest in a series of end dates that have been proposed since the unit was marked for inactivation in March 2014. The latest delay was announced by Col. Karl Schmitkons, commander of the 440th, in a July edition of the unit's newsletter, Combat Airlifter. In the newsletter, Schmitkons says the reduction in force that was set for Sept. 30 was canceled, along with a planned clearing house for the unit's civilian employees and Air Reserve technicians. …
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7/10/2015 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- A fourth C-130H Hercules was delivered June 20 at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and its significance can be traced back to planners, program managers, engineers and maintainers at Robins. Prior to its delivery to the Afghan Air Force, it first made a stop here for something quite interesting and unique - the complete separation of the aircraft's nose from its fuselage in March 2014. The move to build a C-130 fleet in support of the AAF - which received its first two C-130s in the fall of 2013 - will bring increased tactical airlift capabilities for troops engaged in various missions, as well as resup…
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AAR, a provider of aviation services has been awarded a five-year, approximately $72 million Complete Logistics Support (CLS) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract to sustain a fleet of C-130H aircraft on behalf of the Afghan Air Force. Under the contract with the U.S. Air Force, AAR will provide all operational, maintenance, logistics and technical functions needed to support and sustain fleet readiness requirements within Afghanistan. See more at: http://www.arabianaerospace.aero/aar-wins-contract-to-support-afghan-c-130-fleet.html#sthash.ys7J4u6x.dpuf View full article
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According to the Department of Defense (DoD) — Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Warner Robin, Georgia, has been awarded a $7,957,813 contract for Iraq C-130E/J aircraft sustainment. Contractor will provide in country sustainment for the Iraq C-130E/J aircraft. Work will be performed at Baghdad, Iraq, and is expected to be complete by June 30, 2017. This contract involves foreign military sales. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8530-08-D-0008). View original article... Image: Lockheed Martin View full article
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Click here: More than 110 killed in Indonesian military plane crash - Al Jazeera English
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