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How to save 3 hours

In fifteen minutes

The all-mechanical unloading/loading system, developed by Lockheed expressly for the Hercules, makes possible a 40% saving in manpower required to prepare and load freight for air shipment. An even more spectacular 90% reduction of idle ground time for transport plans can be accomplished through shortening the unloading/loading period from hours to minutes.

The mighty 4-engine prop-jet Hercules- first airfreighter designed to speed cargo in the Jet Age- can land with a 39,000 pound cargo and stop within 1500 feet. Highly maneuverable, the Hercules is easily positioned for end-loading from dock or truck. Push a button and down comes the hydraulically- operated tail-gate ramp of the Hercules- leaving a 9-foot by 10-foot cargo opening. Quickly, a winch cable is attached to the “train” of loaded pallets inside the plane. Press another button- and out rolls the entire 39,000- pound load, in 40 seconds! Another palletized load of equal size, waiting to be loaded, can be winched inside the Hercules just as fast.

Most pre-Jet Age transports, hampered by side-loading cargo doors and push-and-strain cargo handling methods, require three hours or more to unload and reload. But with Hercules and Lockheed’s new all-mechanical unloading/loading system, it takes less than 15 minutes- including servicing and refueling. And airborne, the Hercules cruises at 305 knots. No other cargo transport now flying can match this  time-and –dollar-saving Feat of Hercules.*

Lockheed means leadership

*Commercial operators interested in further information about the profit-making capabilities of the Hercules, please write to:

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

GEORGIA DIVISION

Marietta, Georgia

Flying-August 1958


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