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HERCULES

FOUR WAYS TO TELL A TRUE AIRLIFTER

PARADROPS BIG EQUIPMENT

LANDS ON SHORT, ROUGH FIELDS

LOADS FROM THE REAR

TRUCK-BED HEIGHT

A true airlifter is built without compromise for its special kind of work. Huge rear doors allow cargo to be loaded straight in. Cargo floor is truckbed height; no hoisting cargo up and jockeying it around corners. Rear doors can be opened in flight for bulldozer-size paradrops. And a true airlifter need not be pampered with paving. It lands and takes off in sand and rough dirt, close to the action, just like a bush plane. Lockheed’s C-130 Hercules propjet is the true airlifter.  Now in its one hundred and fifty million miles of operation, 14 different versions are flying or being built for the U.S. Air Force, and for the air forces of Canada, Australia and Indonesia.

LOCKHEED

GEORGIA COMPANY

Marietta, Georgia, USA.

A Division of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation