A common noncombat mission for C-130 aircraft is firefighting. Here, a Hercules from Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., drops water during a training exercise over New Mexico in May 2007. Each plane can drop up to 3,000 gallons of retardant on an area that measures a quarter-mile long by 60 feet wide.
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- C-130 = Super Spooky?
- IIRC, before the end of the Vietnam fiasco the C-130 gunships were flying although they weren't nearly as potent or as accurate as what flies today. This would have been in the '68 period. The old AC-... (Read the rest)
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 Puff the Magic Dragon mgkdrgn | 01/02/08 |
 "Puff" was NOT a C-130 Dr_Zinj | 01/02/08 |
 They're loud... Dr. John | 01/02/08 |
| "Puff" was a "gooney bird" silvertip@... | 01/05/08 |
| C-130 Hercules gregory-wheeler@... | 01/02/08 |
| C-130 = Super Spooky? bodger@... | 01/07/08 |
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