The C-130 features a loading ramp and door in the tail that can accomodate palletized loads, vehicles and troops. The aircraft can airdrop up to 42,000 pound loads or land on short, ...

Legacy C-130 models and C-130Js delivered humanitarian aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017. The tail of the C-130J30. The C-130J-30 at the Paris Air Show, June 2019.

The C-130 is a time-tested masterpiece of making a design fit its purpose. It may not have the sleek lines and stealthy performance of a jet like the F-22 Raptor, but that isn't the point.

The C-130 botched the 100-mile buffer, however, crossing right into Soviet airspace. Why this happened remains unclear, all these decades later. The C-130 crew may have misidentified a radio ...