the-cargo-is-lives.jpg

NO TIME TO WASTE

WHEN THE CARGO

IS LIVES

USAF HERCULES

The U.S. Air Force now has the ideal airborne ambulance for EVAC-BY-Air, the Lockheed Hercules C-130 combat cargo plane.

Wherever emergencies happen, the Hercules can go. It takes off and lands in nine times its own length. No long runway is needed because the turboprop power of four giant Allison T56 engines provides plenty of get–up-and-go. And improvised runways, or unimproved fields, can be used because the Hercules has a unique landing gear that distributes its 62.1-ton weight evenly.

Landing close to front-line action, the Hercules can be loaded with 74 liter patients in minimum time. The giant rear-door ramp permits corpsmen to carry wounded aboard easily and quickly. Once loaded, the Hercules takes off in 12 seconds and flies at high speed to a rear-base hospital – with the wounded resting comfortably in an air-conditioned, fully-pressurized cabin.

The Hercules is in quantity production at Government Aircraft Plant No. 6, Marietta, Georgia, America’s first turboprop production line for transports.

LOCKHEED

AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

Georgia Division, Marietta, Georgia