The C-130H is also starting to come into the glass cockpit era. Boeing is heading up the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program , in which H models are retrofitted with digital displays and more up-to-date communications, navigation, and air traffic management systems. The first C-130 AMP plane flew in September 2006, and the third was inducted into the program in November of this year; the upgrade is expected eventually to be applied to 200 aircraft. The cost per upgrade is roughly $10 million to $15 million, according to Boeing.
BAE Systems, meanwhile, is using the H model to test an autonomous landing system for large transport aircraft, a demonstration of which took place earlier this month at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The system uses millimeter-wave radar and infrared imaging to help pilots land in heavy fog, smoke, dust, or snow.
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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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