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C-130 Hercules

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Piggyback Airplanes

Ten of aviation's most famous hitch-hikers.
July 2012 | By Lynn Keillor

The authors daughter, spellbound by a Hercules C-130

Flights and Fancy: Like Father, Like Daughter

January 2010 | By David Unekis

An Iraqi Air Force C-130 gets a thumbs-up from a U.S. Air Force crew chief during a July 2005 mission from Ali Air Base.

Iraq Air Force One

New pilots, new government.
July 2006 | By George C. Larson

Resplendent in U.S. Navy Blue Angels livery, a Marine Corps C-130T fires its jet-assisted takeoff bottles, which add 8,000 pounds of thrust for a super-short takeoff.

50 Years of Hercules

As utilitarian as a bucket and just as plain, Lockheed's C-130 has flown almost everything to almost everywhere.
September 2004 | By Carl Posey

South Vietnamese refugees walk across a U.S. Navy vessel after fleeing their homes in April 1975.

Getting Out

In April 1975, escaping Saigon meant crowding into a darkened C-130 in the middle of the night.
July 1992 | By Fred Reed


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