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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #100 on: December 30, 2018, 04:44:46 AM »
One to confuse people even though it is real:  C-130H with 8 bladed propellors (which you can get in multiple scales BTW):


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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #101 on: December 30, 2018, 05:47:54 AM »
Interesting --- but what does it do -- it's got bumps and scoops and radomes all over it

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #102 on: December 30, 2018, 06:26:58 AM »
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #103 on: December 30, 2018, 07:21:32 AM »
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #104 on: December 30, 2018, 08:49:18 AM »
I was reading the link about those, they had to do something because the NG had just about run out of the RATO units which were needed to get them off the ground when down under, and they're from the 50's and there's no more left, so they re-engined them plus the props.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #105 on: December 30, 2018, 01:29:16 PM »
Those props are definitely great whiff material.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #106 on: December 30, 2018, 07:33:42 PM »
Those props are definitely great whiff material.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #107 on: December 31, 2018, 03:20:12 AM »
You can get some in various scales here:  https://www.shapeways.com/marketplace?type=product&q=NP2000
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #108 on: March 05, 2019, 02:48:53 PM »
What about the C-130 Hercules having a Antonov An-32-type high engine nacelles arrangement above wing incorporated to allowed for larger diameter propellers to be fitted, so as to give an even better STOL capability??😯

Anyone up to having a crack at drawing a profile of this configuration?

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #109 on: March 06, 2019, 01:03:30 AM »
One might get a close approximation of that by fitting a P-3 wing to a C-130.
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #110 on: March 06, 2019, 03:03:56 AM »
One might get a close approximation of that by fitting a P-3 wing to a C-130.

Yes, of course Greg!!😯👍


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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #111 on: May 16, 2019, 08:20:00 PM »
Yet another nose job for the C-130.



Lockheed Martin has released a video showing one of the first MC-130J Commando II special operations transports equipped with the Raytheon AN/APQ-187 Silent Knight terrain-following/terrain avoidance radar.

Full story is here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28048/mc-130j-special-ops-transports-are-finally-getting-this-terrain-following-radar-they-badly-need
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #112 on: May 20, 2019, 09:30:38 PM »
Here's some of photos of Dave's (sandiego89 on the What If Forum) C-130 Vectored Thrust C-130

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #113 on: May 21, 2019, 02:03:49 AM »
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #114 on: May 21, 2019, 02:27:35 AM »
Here's some of photos of Dave's (sandiego89 on the What If Forum) C-130 Vectored Thrust C-130
Reminiscent of a Lockheed proposal I remember seeing at the 1972 Turin Air Show.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #115 on: May 24, 2019, 03:10:25 AM »
Are those Harrier fuselages for engines on the vector thrust herc?

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #116 on: May 24, 2019, 04:03:49 AM »
Are those Harrier fuselages for engines on the vector thrust herc?

From the build thread:

I will cast 4 resin vectored thrust Pegasus engines using the mid body of a Harrier.  Sadly a Harrier has been sacrificed- chopped of the wings, nose and tail. Re-positioned the side intakes to form a single intake 


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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #117 on: May 24, 2019, 05:34:47 AM »
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #118 on: May 24, 2019, 07:51:03 AM »
Nice, though if I remember correctly (after 47 years) the back ends of the nacelles were rounded off like those on the Do-31.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #119 on: May 24, 2019, 07:57:43 AM »
Dave finished of the nacelles like this Evan

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #120 on: May 24, 2019, 08:02:21 AM »
IIRC, the Lockheed drawing depicted them differently, but it's been a long, long time since I saw it.

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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #121 on: May 25, 2019, 02:15:23 AM »
Alternative approaches to the same:



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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #122 on: May 25, 2019, 05:33:27 AM »
Alternative approaches to the same:

A should-have-been  :smiley:  It's too bad that Dornier never tried a STOL Do 31 variant with longer-span wings.
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #123 on: May 26, 2019, 02:53:24 AM »
Perhaps a STOL optimized version of the 231M.
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Re: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
« Reply #124 on: May 26, 2019, 03:05:08 AM »
Ditch the lift engines and use two uprated Pegasus engines for the main engines?  I could see that working nicely as a stol transport and it would look very nice.  I wonder how a Do328 fuselage would compare to the Do31 fuselage for a cleaner nose and cockpit section for such a whif?