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With four 3,750-hp engines—soon to be uprated to 4,050 apiece—the C-130 was one of the most overpowered aircraft in the military inventory. It could literally fly on one engine.
An engine upgrade that could reduce fuel burn by 8% on hundreds of Lockheed Martin C-130Hs will soon enter flight test, Rolls-Royce says. The engine maker has completed development of the series 3 ...
C-130 engine repairs will continue at Rolls-Royce’s facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, through June 30. The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Robins AF Base in Georgia is the contracting ...
The search continues for a missing engine from an Air Force C-130 airplane. The 3,500 pound engine caught on fire last night during a flight, then fell off. No one on the ground was hurt, and the ...
C-130 engine repairs will continue at Rolls-Royce’s facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, through June 30.
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Air Force has funded flight tests of upgraded Rolls-Royce T56 engines on a Lockheed Martin C-130H aimed at increasing reliability and service life as well as cutting fuel ...
The story of how the Lockheed-Martin C-130 was gifted one of history's largest conventional bombs is one of military strategy and perhaps some morbid curiosity.
Europrop International's TP400-D6 engine - the principle cause of delays to the Airbus Military A400M transport project - has at last undergone its first ground run with a Marshall Aerospace-owned ...
Having never landed rough on an unpaved surface like so many C-130s, this Hercules is in much the same condition as it was the day it was mothballed.
The U.S. military made history Thursday when a C-130 aircraft landed on Highway 287 in Wyoming. The landing north of Rawlins, west of Laramie, was part of a joint training exercise.