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I'm staying at home to avoid the plague so I thought I'd upload some memories. This was taken at a gas station on our way to the Uwharrie River for a canoe ride. The Hercules beetle was on the island with the gas pumps. After taking some shots I took him to a field and released him.
Eastern Hercules Beetle - Dynastes tityus (male, 40-50 mm, up to 60 mm with horns)
Found at a lighted wall in the morning. I had found them dead a few times at this site, but this one was uninjured. When I tried to manipulate it for photography, it backed onto my hand and would not let go. I had to drive home (a couple of miles) with it attached to my hand. Later I was able to coax it onto a stick for photography. A polarizing filter was used here to reduce reflections.
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More than 500 students from around the world competed in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, at the Aviation Challenge camp of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
NASA hosted 48 teams from 16 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, India, Mexico, Peru, and Singapore.
Throughout the nine-month challenge, each team will attempt to design, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing a challenging half-mile obstacle course that simulates the terrain of the Moon, Mars, or other rocky bodies in our solar system. In addition, students must also design and demonstrate a unique tool capable of completing various mission tasks.
HERC is one of NASA's nine Artemis Student Challenges - a variety of activities providing students access to the knowledge and technology required to achieve the goals of the Artemis Program.
Replays of the competition are available on NASA Marshall YouTube and NASA's HERC Facebook page.
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
More than 500 students from around the world competed in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, at the Aviation Challenge camp of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
NASA hosted 48 teams from 16 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, India, Mexico, Peru, and Singapore.
Throughout the nine-month challenge, each team will attempt to design, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing a challenging half-mile obstacle course that simulates the terrain of the Moon, Mars, or other rocky bodies in our solar system. In addition, students must also design and demonstrate a unique tool capable of completing various mission tasks.
HERC is one of NASA's nine Artemis Student Challenges - a variety of activities providing students access to the knowledge and technology required to achieve the goals of the Artemis Program.
Replays of the competition are available on NASA Marshall YouTube and NASA's HERC Facebook page.
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
have to be honest and say I'm glad they haven't been able to squeeze the herc inside yet..the chances to get light like this would vanish..still one of my top ten aircraft,always will be..
Royal Air Force, Lockheed C130J Hercules, ZH889
Bwlch, Mach Loop, 26/1/23
Training flight from RAF Brize Norton, callsign ZORRO43
Looking sorry for itself at the side of the Georgia Air National Guard ramp at Savannah's Hilton Head Airport is this former USAF Lockheed C-130A Hercules reputed to be serial number 57-0477
With c/n 3184, according to the late Lars Olausson's excellent 13th Edition 'Lockheed Hercules production list 1954 - 1996',
she was delivered in June of 1958 to the 483rd TCW and after service with the 81sth TAS, 96th TAS and the 358th TAS ended her days as a Repair Training Airframe with the 158th TAS here at Savannah
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Lockheed C-130H Hercules 93-1456 of the 103rd Airlift Wing in special markings to celebrate the centennary of the Flying Yankees. One of the squadrons in the wing (named the "Flying Yankees") was formed on 1 November 1923, as one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard established before World War II. The 103rd AW is a unit of the Connecticut Air National Guard, stationed at Bradley Air National Guard Base at Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
AirVenture 2024 at Oshkosh.
Four C-130 Hercules on the MIL West apron of Eindhoven air base / airport in The Netherlands: USAF AMC 65834, USAF AMC 15748 and USAF AMC 55826 together with Dutch Air Force G-781. These are all used for para droppings during Falcon Leap and the Operation Market Garden memorial flights.
The USAF Hercs came from Dyess AFB, Texas. They are of the new J-model, recogniszable by the six instead of four prop blades. Full military serials:
16-5834
11-5748
15-5826
The Dutch Herc is about 30 years older than the USAF's. It was delivered in 1978 to the US Navy as an EC-130Q with registration 160608. The Dutch air force bought and upgraded the airframe to C130-H standards and started to use it in 2010. It has only four prop blades and also a much shorter fuselage.
8th February 2013 - C-130H 382-5269 (1625) of the Royal Saudi Airforce departs Warton on its 2nd attempt after unloading its cargo to depart for Brize Norton for maintenance on an under-carriage issue.
Here I am with our trusty Iroquois A2-1022 on arrival at Learmonth for Search And Rescue duties. On the 01OCT80, 36 Squadron Hercules A97-007, seen here in the background, under the command of F/L R L Allchin, had flown us across Australia from Fairbairn that day.
We had deployed one of our two SAR aircraft from Williamtown for Exercise Western Reward. Our Iroquois people were very used to loading our aircraft into Hercules for transport anywhere in the world. Photo via William Noble.