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  1. zudnic

    zudnic Formula 3

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    #1 zudnic, Apr 13, 2015
    A company local to me, does maintenance and upgrade work to a number of aircraft. One of them is the C-130 Hercules. Guess on Tuesday they delivered their 100th Hercules to the Canadian Air Force. My house is about 5miles to the airport and I saw this plane flying around last Tuesday. Now I know why a Hercules was flying over my neighborhood. Usually if its government flying overhead, its an RCMP Eurocopter or even a U.S Border Patrol Blackhawk helicopter. The Hercules was a nice rare sight.

    story here: Cascade delivers 100th Hercules - Abbotsford News
     
  2. Gran Drewismo

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    #2 Gran Drewismo, Apr 13, 2015
    Very cool planes. My grandfather was a Loadmaster/Instructor on one.
     
  3. zudnic

    zudnic Formula 3

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    #3 zudnic, Apr 13, 2015
    It is a pretty cool plane. Getting pretty old now. The contract to rebuild our aging fleet is several hundred million. Guess new ones the C135 Globemaster or whatever its called would be into the billions.
     
  4. MarkPDX

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    #4 MarkPDX, Apr 13, 2015
    The plane shown in the story appears to be what the USAF called the C-130E (or perhaps older) model from maybe the '60s or early '70s based on intake for the flight deck air conditioning pack. The USAF just quit flying them about three years ago, though they were old they were actually pretty reliable when I last flew them as an instructor at the schoolhouse. I have my name signed on one after delivering it to the boneyard. The new C-130J variant is a really nice and capable aircraft to carry the design forward.
     

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