Saturday, March 31st, 2007
A March 31st Defense Daily article by B.C. Kessner reported that Israel has joined the list of countries interested in acquiring C-130Js.
“We’re expecting a decision in the next few months,” Bob Weiss, vice president business development for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, told reporters at a press conference here Wednesday. With a C-130J production backlog through the end of 2009 at the company’s facility in Marietta, Ga., and slots filling up through 2012, time is of the essence for the IAF’s decision, ... Read more
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
A March 26th article by Gayle Putrich in Defense News reported that US Air Force top brass told Congress they would prefer more C-130Js over other cargo lifters.
“If you gave me another dollar, I would know exactly where to spend it” – on C-130Js, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said at a March 20 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We would want to backstop tactical airlift with C-130Js,” he said.
The Hercules transport plane has become the workhorse in Iraq, ... Read more
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Heather Hartsell of the Arkansas Leader reports on the arrival of a new C-130J at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
Gen. Duncan McNabb, a four-star general and commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, said “What a difference the J has made with its capabilities in the global war on terrorism.”
Col. John Gomez, commander of the 463rd Airlift Group said the “quantum leap” in capability provided by the J model allows the Hercules to go higher, faster and ... Read more
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
KATV Arkansas reports on the arrival of a new C-130J Super Hercules at Little Rock Air Force Base.
Gen. Duncan McNabb, Scott Air Force Base said, ” What a difference it [C-130J] made in capability with the contribution to the war on terror. So I’m really excited.”
Text report here.
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Categories: Nouvelle
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Marietta, Georgia
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today delivered the first C-130J Super Hercules to an Air Mobility Command active duty combat delivery unit. After accepting the new C-130J, General Duncan McNabb, Commander of Air Mobility Command (AMC), personally flew the aircraft to Little Rock AFB, Ark., where it will operate as part of the 463rd Airlift Group.
“The C-130J is one of the crown jewels of air mobility and the workhorse of the fleet,” said General McNabb, during today’s ceremony. “I am ... Read more
Categories: Communiqué de presse
