First production C-130 set for retirement
The first production standard C-130 airlifter retires from active U.S. Air Force service Sunday, some 40 years after making its first flight. Over its career the plane, named The First Lady, has carried cargo, tracked rockets and snatched satellites returning to Earth by parachute, all before being...
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