Lockheed's C-130 Hercules landed on an aircraft carrier in 1963, setting a record as the largest and heaviest aircraft to do so. The aircraft conducted 29 touch-and-go and 21 full-stop landings ...

The planes can “discharge their entire load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant in less than five seconds, covering an area one-quarter of a mile long by 100 feet wide, or they can make variable drops ...

The Department of Defense deployed modified C-130 aircraft and Navy helicopters to support efforts to contain the destructive wildfires burning in Los Angeles. A wildfire started in the Pacific ...

CAL FIRE's first operational C-130 Hercules appeared in the sky above San Jacinto on Monday, according to the agency. The massive aircraft, which began service as a U.S. Coast Guard search and ...

The C-130 features a loading ramp and door in the tail that can accomodate palletized loads, vehicles and troops. The aircraft can airdrop up to 42,000 pound loads or land on short, unimproved ...

Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying ... Wednesday shows a pilot’s point-of-view as the aircraft flies over and drops retardant on the Hughes ...

It takes, for instance, seven C-130J Super Hercules and C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft. And this weekend those large cargo planes came together on a runway in Guam for an “elephant walk.” ...

If you hear a new rumble from above or see another large plane overhead in the Valley, it could be another new C-130j-30 ...

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan ...

and other components required to support sustained operations — can be deployed quickly to any location using three C-130 Hercules aircraft. Short-duration operations require only a single C-130.

The Pentagon signaled earlier this week that Air Force C-17s could be used to fly deportation flights. That's happening now.