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(•) – The-Lockheed-Martin-HC-130-P-Hercules-The-Combat-K.I.N.G-1-I-is an extended-range version of the C-130 Hercules transport. HC-130 crews provide expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery capabilities to our Combatant Commanders and Joint/Coalitions partners worldwide.
Mission
The mission of the HC-130P/N "King" is to rapidly deploy to austere airfields and denied territory in order to execute , all weather personnel recovery operations anytime...anywhere. King crews routinely perform high and low altitude personnel & equipment airdrops, infiltration/exfiltration of personnel, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area refueling point missions.
When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, casualty evacuation, noncombatant evacuation operations, and, during the Space Shuttle program, space flight support for NASA.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130P/N are improved navigation, threat detection and countermeasures systems. The aircraft fleet has a fully-integrated inertial navigation and global positioning systems, and night vision goggle, or NVG, compatible interior and exterior lighting. It also has forward-looking infrared, radar and missile warning receivers, chaff and flare dispensers, satellite and data-burst communications.
The HC-130 can fly in the day; however, crews normally fly night at low to medium altitude levels in contested or sensitive environments, both over land or overwater. Crews use NVGs for tactical flight profiles to avoid detection to accomplish covert infiltration/exfiltration and transload operations. To enhance the probability of mission success and survivability near populated areas, crews employ tactics that include incorporating no external lighting or communications, and avoiding radar and weapons detection.
Drop zone objectives are done via personnel drops and equipment drops. Rescue bundles include illumination flares, marker smokes and rescue kits. Helicopter air-to-air refueling can be conducted at night, with blacked out communication with up to two simultaneous helicopters. Additionally, forward area refueling point operations can be executed to support a variety of joint and coalition partners.
Background
The HC-130P/N is the only dedicated fixed-wing combat search and rescue platform in the Air Force inventory. The 71st and 79th Rescue Squadrons in Air Combat Command, the 550th Special Operations Squadron in Air Education and Training Command, the 920th Rescue Group in Air Force Reserve Command and the 106th Rescue Wing, 129th RQW and 176th Wing in the Air National Guard operate the aircraft.
First flown in 1964, the aircraft has served many roles and missions. It was initially modified to conduct search and rescue missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range and increasing loiter time during search operations.
In April 2006, the continental U.S. search and rescue mission was transferred back to Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va. From 2003 to 2006, the mission was under the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Previously, HC-130s were assigned to ACC from 1992 to 2003. They were first assigned to the Air Rescue Service as part of Military Airlift Command.
They have been deployed to Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in support of operations Southern and Northern Watch, Allied Force, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. HC-130s also support continuous alert commitments in Alaska and the Horn of Africa.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Rescue platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,910 shaft horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 98 feet, 9 inches (30.09 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 6 inches (11.7 meters)
Weight: 83,000 pounds (37,648 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 155,000 pounds (69,750 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 73,000 pounds (10,724 gallons)
Payload: 30,000 pounds (13,608 kilograms)
Speed: 289 miles per hour (464 kilometers per hour) at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, navigator) and four enlisted (flight engineer, airborne communications specialist, two loadmasters). Additional crewmembers include a Guardian Angel team consisting of one combat rescue officer and three pararescuemen
Unit Cost: $77 million (fiscal 2008 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 1964
Inventory: Active force, 13; ANG, 13; Reserve, 10
The Topsfield Fair is America's oldest agricultural fair dating back to 1818.
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was new to the Topsfield Fair this year. They are a professional stunt team that astound audiences with their high flying, thrilling stunts of freestyle BMX bicycling.
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A photo of teenagers jumping in the Neuadd reservoir taken from Graig Fan Ddu. This was taken using maximum zoom on a Canon power shot A720 IS.
Built in 1851, this Greek Revival-style three-bay townhouse was constructed for John Hall along the then-fashionable residential street known as Lucas Place, and was sold to Cornelia Hempsted Wilson in 1853. In 1854, the house was sold to Robert Campbell and Virginia Kyle Campbell, and remained in the Campbell family until the last daughter of Robert and Virginia, Hazlett Campbell, died in 1938. After Hazlett’s death left no clear heir, members of the extended Campbell family disagreed on who should inherit the house and its contents, which led to experts being called in to evaluate the property, which led to the house’s significance as a Victorian time capsule becoming known. The house was subsequently extensively documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). The house was given to Yale University as part of the terms of the will of Hugh Campbell, meant to honor his brother, James Campbell who had died decades prior at age 30, and had attended Yale University. The William Clark Society, a local history group, organized efforts to preserve the house, and managed to secure most of the house’s contents at an auction in 1941, with other belongings that had previously been removed from the house being donated by other buyers. The Campbell House Foundation was incorporated in 1941, and through a generous gesture by the Stix Baer and Fuller Company, a local department store, the house was procured from Yale University and presented to the Campbell House Foundation. Following the acquisition of the house, the Campbell House Foundation began a lengthy “restoration” that involved modifying many historic features in favor of an idealized 1940s version of what a proper Victorian dwelling should look like, with new wallpaper, paint, and carpeting being installed, and the house was first opened as a museum in 1943. A further renovation in 1967 altered the 1940s renovations. In 1973, a series of photographs of the house, dating to 1885 and documenting the interior rooms and the exterior, were discovered in the trash of the law firm that handled the Campbell Estate in 1938, and were donated to the museum, allowing for a more accurate restoration to take place beginning in 1980. Between 2000 and 2005, the interior and exterior of the house were restored to their circa 1885 appearance with the assistance of the photographs and evidence of original finishes uncovered during careful examination of the house.
The house features a heavily restored and ornate Victorian-era interior with period-appropriate furnishings, decorative objects, and fixtures that were either in the house when the Campbell House Foundation acquired it, or were acquired from the auction of the Campbell family’s belongings in the 1940s. The house is a three-bay Italianate and Greek Revival-style townhouse, with two-over-two double-hung windows, a side-gable roof with a cornice featuring modillions and dentils on the front, cast iron railings and a cast iron front balcony, large windows on the ground floor for maximum ventilation, two one-story bay windows on the east facade, a decorative stone surround at the front door with corinthian pilasters and an entablature featuring a cornice with dentils, a series of rear ells, constructed of brick masonry, which stretch to the south and east of the house, which feature bracketed eaves, and several modern additions along the alley to the rear of the house, which were added in 2019 to house educational classrooms, a gift shop, an accessible entrance, and a lobby, a red brick carriage house along 15th Street with a front-gable roof, paneled wooden doors, and arched double-hung windows, and a garden to the east of the house with a decorative wooden gazebo and arbor, reconstructed using the 1885 photographs, a cast iron and wrought iron fence, and brick walkways. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and is today the only remaining house of its type in Downtown West St. Louis, which was a fashionable residential district in the 19th Century, but became dominated by commercial development and industrial operations around the turn of the 20th Century, leading to the loss of many similar houses. The house is one of the oldest Victorian house museums in the United States, and features one of the most intact original collections of items and interiors of any such museum.