I am a civilian but flew on a number of these boxcar aircraft in Alaska and Africa. I flew in a C-119 Boxcar in Alaska delivering supplies in the arctic. Years later I flew for 12 hours with a large group of people being evacuated in Africa to Europe. Metal seats, portapotties, and no food for 12 hours. The noise was terrific and there were no windows. We gave our earplugs to the children in the plane so they could hear as adults. My love affair with the C-130 started in Alaska where they delivered supplies to remote work sites in the oil field. I have loved that plane for 50 years.
I've logged thousands of miles as a passenger on the herk. Uncomfortable, loud, cold, hot, but goes anywhere, can carry half of Rhode Island, and has that greatest of abilities--availability. Whenever I saw that we were going to ride a herk, I knew we were in good hands.
really interesting how C-130 design as a more local used transport become many country's only large transport, and it still work quite well in Taiwan we call it the old hen, which is a nickname inherit from C-119 and C-47, because when it was dropping troops or cargo it looks like it is laying eggs
In 1981, at an airshow at our base, my flight were standing together to watch the C-130 depart Eastside, a 5,000 foot runway. The Herk taxied to the runway at midpoint, ran up engines, and released brakes. The Herk was airborne before the next taxiway. Our flight lead turned to his wingman and asked, "How far is it from the midpoint to that taxiway?" "Five hundred feet." We all nodded slowly and silently.
I did a three-week tour at Little Rock AFB in 1975 working with enlisted airmen. I got to ride on a C-130 doing LAPES (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) and they really meant low - if the landing gear were extended it would have been a landing. I also got a flight that did a Fulton surface-to-air recovery. About eight years later, I worked with a senior NCO who had been a gunner on AC-130s. He said that North Vietnamese AA guns would not shoot if they thought the Spectre had found them which was indicated by tracer fire from the aircraft to the AA guns. For that reason, he would wear a safety strap while on the lowered ramp holding a pistol. When an AA gun fired at the Spectre, he fired tracer back out of the pistol. The Surprise Package cannons would spit out the fired brass into wood bins. The primary job of the gunners was to use snow shovels to move the brass out of the immediate bins into other bins. They thought of the brass as an annoyance, but when they landed at Da Nang the Marines would barter for the 20 and 40 mm brass. My friend traded the brass he hated for grenades, which he put in the 24 bottle slots of a Coca-Cola wooden carrier. He supplemented his tracer pistol by pulling the pins on the grenades and kicking the crate out the ramp.
Transports rarely get the fame and love that fighters do, but they’re still epic in their own right! I’d love to see you do a video on the C-17, a big sucker that has a foot in both the strategic and tactical airlift missions. Maybe the HAW could let you visit!
The A-400M requires longer runways than the C-130 or C-160, which is the very reason why the German Luftwaffe has acquired the C-130 as there was a gap in cabailities to operate from very short fields when the C-160 was retired.
When I was a kid back in the 70's, I had a walkthrough a RAF Hercules, that was fitted with stretchers.I remember being amazed at its interior size.I then decided that this was going to be my next model kit .
An amazing evolution of a 70 y/o air frame! The J version show here (with combat drops indicated under the cockpit) shares little with the original A-models but with modifications remains among the best in class today. Note: the weaponized versions of the C-130's (as illustrated by outboard Hellfire missiles at the 00:57 mark) are terrifying 😬. Still interesting that the Germans adopted this aircraft with the A-400 in service with the German Air Force that serve very similar role.
I was born the same year as the Hercules and I have to admit that its in a lot better shape than I am am. Its definitely going to have a longer life span. What a brilliant design from the House of Kelly Johnson. There are modern tactical transports on the market that carry heavier loads, farther and faster. There are none that are as versatile.
I crewed worked on US Coast Guard HC-130H models for 16 years, 1976 through 1992. Good times, bad times, boring and pucker-factor times, too. Including CG number 1453, the 1,000th Herk. Some of the 1700-series are now serving CalFire as fire tankers.
Though I love older aircraft and even jet fighters from this era a little more, I will always have a soft spot for the C-130. My late grandfather always pointed them out to me as a kid, and whenever I saw one I would call them out for him, "just like the ones you worked on in Vietnam!".
I've listened several times, and at 1:55, it sounds like you said, "... and with over 500 units built ...", which is also what the closed caption says as well. You must have dropped the "2" that goes in front of the "500", because, as I'm sure you know, more than 2,500 have been built, according to Wikipedia.
@@ValaltaFishbone Are you really *that* oblivious to the point? So, from now on, all Chris has to say is, "There was more than one built" and he will always be correct, and that will please you? Either you are simply being snarky, or you might need to get back on the short bus.
Super interesting. You have superb access to these great aircraft and crews as a result of your hard work an professionalism over the years. Credit is due. Edit: spelling
Great Chris! I love these walkarounds…so cool. Wondering why Bernd talks in “pounds”. As an Aussie I have grown up talking metric and would’ve thought the Luftwaffe was also metric. My uncle was a pilot for the Aussie RAAF No 36 squadron and was involved in the delivery flights for the DeHavilland Hercs in 1958, and the RAAF still flies newer C-130s. So the fact the airframe has outlived so many contenders is kind of nice :)
Good to see the export variant C-130 has so many more cool options. German Loadmaster guy looks like his side job is WWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation) [that's a complement]. Ooorah.
I've worked closely with a C-130j Crew chief, a landing gear/brakes technician, and in a school with 3 former crew men USAF. Lastly, my mom worked closely at Little Rock AFB for thousands of NATO, Japan, many others, all USA operators of Lockheed's home-run airplane. I could sleep easily with hundreds flying off in 2003 to somewhere...
We used to get them zooming around where I live next to Sainsbury's plain (millitary training area) now it's a400s as the UK has stopped using this platform
Used to see these flying in and out of RAF Coltishall when I was a lad. We lived within aa kilometre of the end of the runway. They were a lot quieter than the Jaguar fighters.
My cousin flew the Shorts Belfast and two versions of the C-130 in the RAF. His opinion was that the Belfast was fundamentally superior and had greater potential. Unfortunately it got no investment. I wonder what the Belfast could have been today if it had received the development the C-130 has had.
I'd like confirmation that there's at least a plan for replacing existing C-130 airframes. I'd guess that there is a plan, but I don't really know. In my mind, the way it would work is we'd have a production line that makes new ones on a slow and steady pace.
Damals hat man uns erzählt, die A400M würde das auch alles können und noch viel mehr. Das hat so gut geklappt, dass wir jetzt auch die C130 fliegen. Aber schon interessant, was die alles erzählt haben. Mal ne KC130 zu sehen wäre interessant gewesen.
@@jameson1239 What prompts people to say this stuff? Stall speed of a C130 is 120 mph? Try taking a semi over a kilometer long farm field at 120 mph dude. Now multiply the damage times 120.
@@ejt3708 Well, it wasn't exactly just 'flat ground' but on one occasion in 1992 or '93 my USMC KC-130F crew spent most of the day practicing landing on a 'strip' that was essentially a packed dirt road (with wide, flat shoulders, but still pretty much a dirt road). I could almost swear we were stopping well short of 1km. I wish I could remember the actual numbers to tell you, but you still wouldn't believe something the size of a Herc could do that without seeing it. Full reverse thrust on all four engines slowed us down QUICKLY. I was very surprised to hear the copilot in this video talking about using primarily the brakes to stop in this short distance; I am guessing that must be a limitation of those new curved, six-bladed props- probably the curvature that optimizes their efficiency for forward thrust, impairs their ability to provide (or withstand?) reverse thrust like the straight, four-bladed ones.... I wonder what airspeed they get out of those new props, too. We used to always cruise at 290KIAS. I wonder if the props primarily give faster cruise speed, greater takeoff thrust, better climb rate, or reduced fuel burn? CHRIS_____CHRIS____CHRIS- can you help me out here, PLEASE?
@@thekinginyellow1744 Always been like that. When SAAB began their NATO Gripen sales drive in the early 2000s, a decision was made to convert the Gripen's metric instrumentation to imperial units to align themselves with the rest of NATO.
We all know that the Embraer C390 Millenium is better than the Herc, but still for the availability of logistic for the plane, C390 still got to proof that it can do better than the mighty Herc
C390 is a turbofan aircraft. Its better for high and fast transport, but that's not all the herc is designed to do. Down low and slow, turboprop is better.
@@OldieBugger There are actually people living in Gaza. Not only terr*rists but ordinary civillians that are caught up in the fighting and of whom about 40,000 were already killed.
The Herc will outlast the B-52, because it can land in places bigger and faster planes cannot (so says I, anyway, with 800+ logged flight hours as USMC KC-130F Navigator from 1990-1993).
Is this the GOAT of Transportation? Such a legendary plane
Especially with a 105mm howitzer
No, the DC-3 is still the GOAT. The C-130 is definitely its successor, but the old DC-3 is still in operational use, even as a gunship
duce and a half still running
This & the DC-3.
Its cargo capacity is amazing. It can carry multiple tanks or up to 3 Americans at once! - An American
I am a civilian but flew on a number of these boxcar aircraft in Alaska and Africa. I flew in a C-119 Boxcar in Alaska delivering supplies in the arctic. Years later I flew for 12 hours with a large group of people being evacuated in Africa to Europe. Metal seats, portapotties, and no food for 12 hours. The noise was terrific and there were no windows. We gave our earplugs to the children in the plane so they could hear as adults.
My love affair with the C-130 started in Alaska where they delivered supplies to remote work sites in the oil field. I have loved that plane for 50 years.
I've logged thousands of miles as a passenger on the herk. Uncomfortable, loud, cold, hot, but goes anywhere, can carry half of Rhode Island, and has that greatest of abilities--availability. Whenever I saw that we were going to ride a herk, I knew we were in good hands.
Hot and cold at the same time mind you.
@@thelandofnod123 hot above and freezing below when you are sitting in the cargo hull
Von seinen Fähigkeiten her schon ein sehr beeindruckendes Flugzeug. Fast schon das Schweizer Taschenmesser unter den Flugzeugen.
really interesting how C-130 design as a more local used transport become many country's only large transport, and it still work quite well
in Taiwan we call it the old hen, which is a nickname inherit from C-119 and C-47, because when it was dropping troops or cargo it looks like it is laying eggs
In 1981, at an airshow at our base, my flight were standing together to watch the C-130 depart Eastside, a 5,000 foot runway. The Herk taxied to the runway at midpoint, ran up engines, and released brakes. The Herk was airborne before the next taxiway.
Our flight lead turned to his wingman and asked, "How far is it from the midpoint to that taxiway?"
"Five hundred feet."
We all nodded slowly and silently.
I did a three-week tour at Little Rock AFB in 1975 working with enlisted airmen. I got to ride on a C-130 doing LAPES (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) and they really meant low - if the landing gear were extended it would have been a landing. I also got a flight that did a Fulton surface-to-air recovery. About eight years later, I worked with a senior NCO who had been a gunner on AC-130s. He said that North Vietnamese AA guns would not shoot if they thought the Spectre had found them which was indicated by tracer fire from the aircraft to the AA guns. For that reason, he would wear a safety strap while on the lowered ramp holding a pistol. When an AA gun fired at the Spectre, he fired tracer back out of the pistol. The Surprise Package cannons would spit out the fired brass into wood bins. The primary job of the gunners was to use snow shovels to move the brass out of the immediate bins into other bins. They thought of the brass as an annoyance, but when they landed at Da Nang the Marines would barter for the 20 and 40 mm brass. My friend traded the brass he hated for grenades, which he put in the 24 bottle slots of a Coca-Cola wooden carrier. He supplemented his tracer pistol by pulling the pins on the grenades and kicking the crate out the ramp.
What did the marines use the brass for?
This is getting a design right. The Herc is a masterpiece.
Thrilled to be a part of the initial C130J-30 course at Marietta, Georgia for the Royal Australian Air Force 25 years ago. Wonderful memories.
Transports rarely get the fame and love that fighters do, but they’re still epic in their own right! I’d love to see you do a video on the C-17, a big sucker that has a foot in both the strategic and tactical airlift missions. Maybe the HAW could let you visit!
I was the crew chief on C-130 A/B/E models for 9 years (1964-73) in the USAF.
The C160 Transall and the A400M also land everywhere ;-)
By the way like every time with this channel very nice video! Thank you !
It's not impossible, but some additional rockets need to be bolted on the C-130 if it is going to land on a stadium, however.
Both have a better main landing gear than the C-130.
The A-400M requires longer runways than the C-130 or C-160, which is the very reason why the German Luftwaffe has acquired the C-130 as there was a gap in cabailities to operate from very short fields when the C-160 was retired.
@@realQuiGon C-130 takeoff 3,000ft & landing 2,500ft A400M takeoff 3,215ft & landing 2530ft. Marginal difference
Great to see a mixed crew
Up here in Canada, we love the Herc. Arctic, small airfields, cold, summer heat, it handled it all for decades.
When I was a kid back in the 70's, I had a walkthrough a RAF Hercules, that was fitted with stretchers.I remember being amazed at its interior size.I then decided that this was going to be my next model kit .
Would you also do a video like that about the a400M ? I’m sure it can’t be to hard to find one at an European air show
An amazing evolution of a 70 y/o air frame! The J version show here (with combat drops indicated under the cockpit) shares little with the original A-models but with modifications remains among the best in class today. Note: the weaponized versions of the C-130's (as illustrated by outboard Hellfire missiles at the 00:57 mark) are terrifying 😬. Still interesting that the Germans adopted this aircraft with the A-400 in service with the German Air Force that serve very similar role.
It still blows my mind that C-130 and Mi-26 are basically of the same size and cargo capacity.
I was born the same year as the Hercules and I have to admit that its in a lot better shape than I am am. Its definitely going to have a longer life span. What a brilliant design from the House of Kelly Johnson. There are modern tactical transports on the market that carry heavier loads, farther and faster. There are none that are as versatile.
At Lockheed in nearby Burbank, California.
I crewed worked on US Coast Guard HC-130H models for 16 years, 1976 through 1992. Good times, bad times, boring and pucker-factor times, too. Including CG number 1453, the 1,000th Herk. Some of the 1700-series are now serving CalFire as fire tankers.
Though I love older aircraft and even jet fighters from this era a little more, I will always have a soft spot for the C-130. My late grandfather always pointed them out to me as a kid, and whenever I saw one I would call them out for him, "just like the ones you worked on in Vietnam!".
Wow, that cockpit sure looks different then the version I worked on back in the 80s. Thanks.
I've listened several times, and at 1:55, it sounds like you said, "... and with over 500 units built ...", which is also what the closed caption says as well. You must have dropped the "2" that goes in front of the "500", because, as I'm sure you know, more than 2,500 have been built, according to Wikipedia.
Correct, thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it now in the subtitles!
Well, to be exact, 2500 is more than 500
@@ValaltaFishbone more than 2,500 is more than 2,500 -- and is more than 500.
well there are more than 500 built so
@@ValaltaFishbone Are you really *that* oblivious to the point? So, from now on, all Chris has to say is, "There was more than one built" and he will always be correct, and that will please you? Either you are simply being snarky, or you might need to get back on the short bus.
Super interesting. You have superb access to these great aircraft and crews as a result of your hard work an professionalism over the years. Credit is due.
Edit: spelling
One of my all time favorite planes of all time.
As a kid I watched the Hercules & Caribous taking off from RAF Richmond.
Love the Hercs, but really miss the little Caribous.
Chriss is the BOSS
Great Chris! I love these walkarounds…so cool. Wondering why Bernd talks in “pounds”. As an Aussie I have grown up talking metric and would’ve thought the Luftwaffe was also metric. My uncle was a pilot for the Aussie RAAF No 36 squadron and was involved in the delivery flights for the DeHavilland Hercs in 1958, and the RAAF still flies newer C-130s. So the fact the airframe has outlived so many contenders is kind of nice :)
0:42 Can't help thinking of Grüber's "little tank" in 'Allo 'allo...
I would not have thought that I would ever see the C-130 in German Service.
Good to see the export variant C-130 has so many more cool options. German Loadmaster guy looks like his side job is WWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation) [that's a complement]. Ooorah.
I've worked closely with a C-130j Crew chief, a landing gear/brakes technician, and in a school with 3 former crew men USAF. Lastly, my mom worked closely at Little Rock AFB for thousands of NATO, Japan, many others, all USA operators of Lockheed's home-run airplane. I could sleep easily with hundreds flying off in 2003 to somewhere...
The French AND the Germans working together?!
@@spacebadger21 my thoughts exactly 😂
Surely there must be a war going on *inside* the plane
Plus each of the French and German crew were talking in pounds of fuel and cargo, and knots of speed.
Got a church buddy was a Load Master,"I love" this TRUCK!
We used to get them zooming around where I live next to Sainsbury's plain (millitary training area) now it's a400s as the UK has stopped using this platform
Used to see these flying in and out of RAF Coltishall when I was a lad. We lived within aa kilometre of the end of the runway. They were a lot quieter than the Jaguar fighters.
Primeiro vídeo que vejo desse canal que o TH-cam decidiu dublar em português com voz feminina😮. Achava que a dublagem por IA só tinha uma voz
@@paulomatheus_ top 😎👍
I’m interested from those in the know how the composite blades compare to the alloy ones with rough field landing?
Really nice glass ip!!!
My cousin flew the Shorts Belfast and two versions of the C-130 in the RAF. His opinion was that the Belfast was fundamentally superior and had greater potential. Unfortunately it got no investment. I wonder what the Belfast could have been today if it had received the development the C-130 has had.
8:40 How does the C-130 avoid stalling at helicopter speeds? Wow!
Flaps
Watch tv from the Vietnam war, that was when they perfected using the Hercules.
Ive yet to see one do well landing on water.
I'd like confirmation that there's at least a plan for replacing existing C-130 airframes. I'd guess that there is a plan, but I don't really know. In my mind, the way it would work is we'd have a production line that makes new ones on a slow and steady pace.
I’m pretty sure the C-130J is still in production
@@jameson1239 Searching the internet, it seems that you're right. Thank you. I might have been thinking of the B-52.
0:15 belgian flag hanging next to the german flag
And this is why France and Germany have always been such good allies.
C-130 can now serve as a strike platform, using Rapid Dragon palletized JASSM cruise missiles.
Know what else it can land on?
MY MO- aight bye.
man. you know that image of a C-130 refueling a V-22?
War is logistics by other means.
Damals hat man uns erzählt, die A400M würde das auch alles können und noch viel mehr. Das hat so gut geklappt, dass wir jetzt auch die C130 fliegen. Aber schon interessant, was die alles erzählt haben. Mal ne KC130 zu sehen wäre interessant gewesen.
Als ich zum ersten Mal vom A400M gehört habe, dachte ich mir: Warum kaufen die nicht einfach C-130...?!? Nun, Jahre und zich Mrd. € später....
Is variable pitch used for reverse. I don't understand this for prop plane.
Danm, that's a lot of payload going to fuel, what can be done to improve it's capability?
What’s your opinion on the OA-1k sky raider? The air forces newest attack plane
Is it Monsieur Cules for the French crew? :)
Love the 4 fan shitcan
You missed a chance to title: Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime 👩🎤
Well, anywhere there is a kilometer long runway...
Or just 1km of fairly flat ground which is fairly common
@@jameson1239 What prompts people to say this stuff?
Stall speed of a C130 is 120 mph? Try taking a semi over a kilometer long farm field at 120 mph dude. Now multiply the damage times 120.
@@ejt3708 Well, it wasn't exactly just 'flat ground' but on one occasion in 1992 or '93 my USMC KC-130F crew spent most of the day practicing landing on a 'strip' that was essentially a packed dirt road (with wide, flat shoulders, but still pretty much a dirt road). I could almost swear we were stopping well short of 1km. I wish I could remember the actual numbers to tell you, but you still wouldn't believe something the size of a Herc could do that without seeing it. Full reverse thrust on all four engines slowed us down QUICKLY. I was very surprised to hear the copilot in this video talking about using primarily the brakes to stop in this short distance; I am guessing that must be a limitation of those new curved, six-bladed props- probably the curvature that optimizes their efficiency for forward thrust, impairs their ability to provide (or withstand?) reverse thrust like the straight, four-bladed ones.... I wonder what airspeed they get out of those new props, too. We used to always cruise at 290KIAS. I wonder if the props primarily give faster cruise speed, greater takeoff thrust, better climb rate, or reduced fuel burn? CHRIS_____CHRIS____CHRIS- can you help me out here, PLEASE?
Well, it's not really as good at the "anywhere" bit as the good old Caribou
I take your point in general yet the Caribou is a different class of aircraft, so I’d say it’s apples and oranges.
That’s like comparing a Ford ranger to a Pacific P12
I thought NATO was SI. Why is the loadmaster talking "pounds"?
Metric isn't used in Western aviation.
@@marcg1686 I knew it wasn't in civilian aviation, but I didn't realize that it extended to the military.
@@thekinginyellow1744 Always been like that. When SAAB began their NATO Gripen sales drive in the early 2000s, a decision was made to convert the Gripen's metric instrumentation to imperial units to align themselves with the rest of NATO.
Depending on who manufactures the aircraft affects the units. US aircraft use lb for fuel, European ones tend to use kg
Sound editing is terrible. Levels are unmanaged.
Sadly we had some trouble with ambient noise. It is an airshow, plenty of people shouting, speaker announcements, aircraft going full AB.
We all know that the Embraer C390 Millenium is better than the Herc, but still for the availability of logistic for the plane, C390 still got to proof that it can do better than the mighty Herc
C390 is a turbofan aircraft. Its better for high and fast transport, but that's not all the herc is designed to do. Down low and slow, turboprop is better.
Why supply the terrorists in Gaza?
Probably similar reason as to why the US is allowing funds to go to Iran.
@@OldieBugger There are actually people living in Gaza. Not only terr*rists but ordinary civillians that are caught up in the fighting and of whom about 40,000 were already killed.
Brings back fond memories…
Oldest of its kind. Hercules must have been long gone!
In a world where there are A400M and Embraer Jet cargo plane; Hercules is dead.
The Herc will outlast the B-52, because it can land in places bigger and faster planes cannot (so says I, anyway, with 800+ logged flight hours as USMC KC-130F Navigator from 1990-1993).
EMBRAER KC-390 IS MUCH BETTER !
Really? Anywhere any time? How about my backyard? 70 x 70 feet. Words mean things, but yours's are a bit unbelievable.
It's more of a slogan than a exact description...
Words mean things within their context of use.
It will land, will it be in one piece after landing is another question...
I can't tell if this is a joke or you're being annoying.
Your words don't mean a thing.
stop calling it the herculis lol