The search continues for a missing engine from an Air Force C-130 airplane. The 3,500 pound engine caught on fire last night during a flight, then fell off. No one on the ground was hurt, and the ...

The U.S. Air Force’s Air National Guard has built a new and upgraded T56 3.5 turbo engine for its C-130 cargo plane to increase fuel efficiency, increase propulsion and thrust in cold weather ...

An engine upgrade that could reduce fuel burn by 8% on hundreds of Lockheed Martin C-130Hs will soon enter flight test, Rolls-Royce says. The engine maker has completed development of the series 3.5 ...

Rolls-Royce has received a $96.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to extend by five months the company’s engine repair and sustainment support for the C-130 military transport ...

Marshall Aerospace of the UK has begun preparing a company-owned Lockheed Martin C-130K transport to support flight testing of the Airbus Military A400M’s Europrop International (EPI) TP400-D6 engine ...

Flying into Camp Duck was a death-defying mission, but Lieutenant Colonel John Delmer made the attempt in his C-130. On approach, the aircraft took heavy fire, with the bullets sounding like ...

The C-130 was built with longevity in mind. The airframe was over-engineered to be tough. The skin is thick. The frame is stress tolerant. Four robust turboprop engines deliver thrust and control ...

Lockheed Martin's C-130 Hercules has been defying physics since taking its first flight in 1954. The Air Force began flying the C-130 on a regular basis in 1956, and the plane, known affectionally as ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year contract worth as much as $668 million to help maintain its fleet of C-130 aircraft at the company’s 1.1 ...

You can't fly to low-Earth orbit on a government-surplus Space Shuttle Atlantis. But what you can do, if you're wealthy and fortunate enough and wealthy enough, you might be able to buy some genuine ...