If the cargo was ready, Dolney said, the Air Force was prepared to send up to one C-141 plane and one C-17 plane each hour.
So, one day I had a wild dream about having a C-130 plane with all these materials and props inside, all ready to go!
In early June Oman signed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the purchase of a C-130 Super Hercules plane, which will join the three C-130Hs that were purchased in the early 1980s.
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Gassing up the C-17 cargo plane with a coal-based synthetic fuel could begin soon, according to an Air Force representative.
He has harnessed himself to fire engines, Mack trucks, and a Lockheed C-130 transport plane and dragged them hundreds of yards.
It takes less than an hour to fly aboard a C-130 cargo plane from Kandahar to the main British military base in Helmand province.
Up to 1, 700 jobs in Northern Ireland depend on the C-series, a plane with more than 100 seats, going ahead.
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The country would continue the loan of a C-17 military cargo plane to France's military operations, "as long as we feel there is a need, " Mr Harper said.
On Monday, troops from the Indonesian Air Force's special forces, the Paskhas, herded goats off the Dili tarmac and watched curiously as a C-130 Hercules transport plane brought in a unit of Australian commandos.
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Instead, another plane -- probably the smaller C-17, with its short landing and takeoff characteristics -- would be the likely choice for the first hop out of Afghanistan.
The 330 military personnel comprise 200 soldiers going to West African nations, 40 military advisers to Mali, and 90 support crew for a C-17 transport aircraft and a Sentinel R1 surveillance plane.
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The plane selected for the main part of the mission is the aging C-141, an aircraft with intercontinental range.
As it was, when an airline canceled a flight from Point A to Point B, it had no plane available at Point B to fly the scheduled continuation to Point C.
The first officer saw a bright object ahead of the plane -- the planet Venus -- and mistook it for the approaching C-17.
Thus, since the military would no longer require any new C-17s, the one active American manufacturing line that is capable of building wide body military transport plane would be allowed to go dormant - possibly forever.
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