The historic Hercules C-130 continues to break records

El históI call my grandfatherón Hercules C-130 continues to break récord, now with the versionón más modern C-130J that surpassesó the 2 million flight hours.

Lockheed Martin announcedó that the global community of C-130J operators now called «Super Hercules» superó recently the 2 million flight hours. These hours were recorded beginning with the first flight of the C-130J on 5 april 1996, until the end of July 2019.

Hercules C-130 turnedón J

The C-130J Super Hercules demonstrates its ability to land in remote and austere conditions. The Hércules tested on operational missions recently exceeded the 2 million flight hours.

twenty-twoóoperators of 18 nations contributed to this achievement, adding hours throughés of múMultiple missions including combat, transport, refuelingéreo, special operations, medevac (evacuatedón aerométip), humanitarian aid, búsearch and rescue, weather reconnaissance, extinciónumber of fires and commercial cargo delivery.

The PAíses with the C-130J military variant that contribute to these flight hours include (in delivery order) to the UK, USA (Force AéUS area. UU., Marine Corps and Coast Guard), Australia, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Canadaá, India, Qatar, Iraq, Aboután, Túnez, Israel, Kuwait, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, France and Bahrain.

Spaghettién isán contributing to this éLockheed Martin Flight Operations flights succeed, whose crews are the first to fly each C-130J produced before delivery.

The United States maintains the C-130J fleet más biggest in the world, with Super Hercules flown by Mobility Command Aérea, Combat Command Aéreo, the Education Commandón and Training Aéreo, the Special Operations Command and National Guard Reserve units AéArea and Force Aérea. Además, Management Agency teamsóDefense Contracts support with C-130J test flights at the construction siteóLockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia, production headquartersón of C-130.

The C-130J Super Hercules is the production modelócurrent n of the legendary aircraftón C-130 Hercules which alsoén aún operates in many países in the world included Ecuador (versionónL-100), which incorporates endless improvements in both performance, Aerodámica and technologyía.

Son más de 400 C-130J that have been delivered to 21 operators, with 17 different different variants adjusted to specific missionsífigures of the operators in 18 países.

Characterístatic

• Operates on dirt tracks 2.000 feet long and tall.
• Bring tons of supplies to meás de 3,000 miles
• Perform in-flight refueling, ground fueling, weather reconnaissance, electro warónica, evacuatedón métip, búsearch and rescue, skydiving, missionón maríteam, special operations and many other missions.
• Generates much higher operational efficiencies.
• El C-130J supera al C-130 más old in combat operations at least by a margin 2:1.
• It operates with only two pilots and a loadmaster for the mainía of the missions, exposing less
• crew membersón of flight to possible combats and threats.
• Demonstrates reliability that far exceeds the highestíto other military aircraft.