C-130 Hercules

the reader on the C-130 Hercules. The first paragraph will cover the mission and characteristics of the C-130. The second paragraph will delve into the role of the aircraft in current missions. The third paragraph will cover the role that the C-130 played in the Vietnam War. 2. The C-130 Hercules primary role is to perform the tactical portion of the airlift mission, this includes airdropping troops and equipment into enemy territory.1 Due to the flexible design of the C-130, the aircraft can

important people, aircraft, and developments, which greatly contributed to aviation development, which ultimately impacted the World. Out of many aviation developments, I will write about an aircraft I take pleasure in seeing and hearing, the C-130 Hercules. I consider this aircraft has made a significant impact in the aviation industry, most in the dependability of the airframe and its illustrious design. Today, this aircraft is used for many organizations such as Military Ops, firefighting, and

the first U.S. Army Air Forces plane to shoot down a Nazi plane (Timeline,1). In 1943 The Lockheed Company’s Skunk Works started their secret work on the U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft that flew in 1955 (Timeline,1). In 1954 the Lockheed C-130 Hercules flew. The C-130 is the longest running military airlifter program in the world (Timeline,1). In 1958 Lockheed made the F-104 Starfighter which was the first plane to hold records in both speed and altitude at the same time (Timeline,1). Lockheed contributed

atmosphere, Operation CAREAM uses an aircraft to conduct its mission and achieve its goal. The main platform utilized in the mission is a C-130H Hercules, launched from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia (Craig, 2016). The mission type of Operation CAREAM is the same as CARVE and DISCOVER-AQ, since both were Airborne-Earth based missions (Jensen, n/a). Since the C-130H Hercules aircraft will conduct its research within the stratosphere and below, Operation CAREAM is an Airborne-Earth based mission. Operation

Milestone 2: Core Competencies, Key Strengths, & Key Weaknesses Lockheed Martin Corporation is the largest Defense Contractor in the world with $46 billion in net sales in 2015 (10-K, 2016). Has been the prime contractor in many of the Air Forces biggest projects in recent years. No other contractor has been awarded a fighter or attack aircraft contract since 1988. Strengths Market Leading Position. Lockheed Martin is the world’s leader in combat and logistical aircraft, anti-missile systems, maritime

crashing. These are over three and a half million dollar drones, which get either lost in Afghanistan or malfunction in our own lands. ”Military drones have slammed into homes, farms, runways, highways, waterways and, in one case, an Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane in midair. No one has died in a drone accident, but the documents show that many catastrophes have been narrowly averted, often by a

Three o’clock in the morning and I do not want to be here, sitting out on a concrete pad in the middle of the desert for the last two hours. I should be a little more specific; I’m on the flight line at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, waiting for my final flight into Tallil Air Base, Iraq. I grab my fourth bottle of water to quench my thirst; the dry heat killing me. I thought it would be cooler here in the evening, nope a nice 89 degrees. Feels more like 103 I contribute this to the fourty-pounds

Queuing Theory: Queuing theory is described as the study of waiting lines (Render et al, 2015). Believe it or not it is a theory we use daily. Some instances you may encounter applying this theory, could be when deciding on which line to wait on when making a purchase or when initiating a phone call for service to be placed on hold. Sometimes when being placed on hold in queue the company, for example Comcast, may tell that you are the fifth person on hold or in queue; they may even give you

Lockheed Martin is a global Aerospace, Defence, Security and advanced Technology Company that is a renowned specialist in the research, design, manufacture and development, of advanced technology systems, products and services. Lockheed Martin operates in five business segments; this is made up of Aeronautics, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Missiles and Fire Control, Mission Systems and Training, and Space Systems. However in 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales

“The airplane will take over both land and water travel. Flying has no barriers”, Allan Martin once predicted regarding the future of aviation. Expanding upon that, he made this predication when the industry was less than ten years old, a bold and defiant statement to those who believed aviation was only for the dare devils and dreamers. Lockheed Martin has over a hundred years of visionary leadership which has driven its company from the construction of planes in a small rented church to a place