one of the most important planes in the U.S. Air Force's entire inventory isn't a fighter. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is one of the most crucial aircraft used by the Air Force, and the service ...

The biggest of these — and to date the biggest aircraft to ever land and take off from a carrier — is the C-130 Hercules, which stands at 97 feet long, and 132 feet wide in wingspan.

Military personnel and their family members, students and other civilians were among those on board the C-130 Hercules plane that went down shortly after takeoff Tuesday in Medan, on the ...

The U.S. Air Force believes it can sustain and upgrade 92 of its oldest C-130 military transport aircraft even as it aims to downsize the overall Hercules fleet over the next few years ...

A Lockheed C-130 transport plane made an emergency landing, crashed and caught fire at the Santa Barbara Airport in Southern California late Sunday night, but the seven people on board escaped ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops crashed in a southern province Sunday after missing the runway and at least 40 people on board were rescued ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has received its second C-130 cargo plane acquired from the United States through the Excess Defense Articles Program. Bearing tail No.

MANILA, Philippines — No single factor led to the crash of a C-130 plane in Sulu in July as well as a Black Hawk helicopter in Tarlac in June, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

The C-130 military transport is just one example. The C-130 Hercules, as its name suggests, is a hefty, powerful aircraft, ...

James H. Flatley III aimed his C-130 Hercules, America’s massive cargo-carrying workhorse plane, toward the USS Forrestal, one of the Navy’s largest aircraft carriers. The ship powered through ...