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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

Like a whale in a tanning salon, a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy bakes under a 
bank of heat lamps in the main chamber, which was enlarged in 1968 to accommodate the Air Force

Torture Chamber

Because airplanes must fly in the real world, the Air Force built a fake one.
May 2006 | By Ed Regis

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

Chief technician Hanspeter Sennhauser smiles through the cockpit’s spacious greenhouse windscreen.

Alpine Air

The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
May 2004 | By Linda Shiner

The author surveys the forbidding Laotian terrain from a C-46.

Above & Beyond: Ration of Luck

November 2002 | By Donald V. Courtney

Moments & Milestones: Low and Dark

March 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

Above & Beyond: Man Overboard!

May 2000 | By Keith Monroe

Extreme Machine

The U.S. Marine Corps' sword gets a brand-new edge.
November 1998 | By George C. Larson

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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