Hail the Hercules
The title of this post is pinched from The Meccano Magazine of the 1950s. I used to get it every month and it was very much part of my education. As an aside here, does anything similar still exist? I doubt it and could this be why our engineering and scientific education perhaps isn’t what it should be.
One particular edition described the then new Lockheed Hercules or C-130 to give it, its US military designation. This was probably in about 1954, as the Hercules made its first flight in that year.
Today it is reported that the UK government has some RAF Hercules in Malta to extricate British nationals from Libya. So yet again, a nation is turning to an ageing design for its emergency transport needs. The RAF used them in Dhaka to get British nationals out during the war that saw the birth of Bangladesh, get people and supplies to the Falklands and into Sarajevo and the Israelis famously used them at Entebbe.
There are some designs that are timeless and will probably always be with us. The Hercules is definitely one.
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February 24, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | News, Transport/Travel | Aircraft, Engineering, Flying
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