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It takes two people to put a key in two different places plus the same thing at another location to launch a missile.
(•) – The Lockheed Martin HC-130J Hercules The Combat King II is the U.S. Air Force's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). This C-130J variation specializes in tactical profiles and avoiding detection and recovery operations in austere environments. The HC-130J replaces HC-130P/Ns as the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory. It is an extended-range version of the C-130J Hercules transport. Its mission is to rapidly deploy to execute combatant commander directed recovery operations to austere airfields and denied territory for expeditionary, all weather personnel recovery operations to include airdrop, airland, helicopter air-to-air refueling, and forward area ground refueling missions. When tasked, the aircraft also conducts humanitarian assistance operations, disaster response, security cooperation/aviation advisory, emergency aeromedical evacuation, and noncombatant evacuation operations.
Features
Modifications to the HC-130J have 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, and the ability to receive fuel inflight via a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI).
The HC-130J 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-130J is a result of the HC/MC-130 recapitalization program and replaces Air Combat Command's aging HC-130P/N fleet as the dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery 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 will operate the aircraft.
First flight was 29 July 2010, and the aircraft will serve the many roles and missions of the HC-130P/Ns. It is a modified KC-130J aircraft designed to conduct personnel recovery missions, provide a command and control platform, in-flight-refuel helicopters and carry supplemental fuel for extending range or air refueling.
In April 2006, the personnel recovery 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.
General Characteristics
Primary function: Fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform
Contractor: Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Power Plant: Four Rolls Royce AE2100D3 turboprop engines
Thrust: 4,591 Propeller Shaft Horsepower, each engine
Wingspan: 132 feet, 7 inches (40.4 meters)
Length: 97 feet, 9 inches (29.57 meters)
Height: 38 feet, 9 inches (11.58 meters)
Operating Weight: 89,000 pounds (40,369 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 164,000 pounds (74,389 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: 61,360 pounds (9,024 gallons)
Payload: 35,000 pounds (15,875 kilograms)
Speed: 316 knots indicated air speed at sea level
Range: beyond 4,000 miles (3,478 nautical miles)
Ceiling: 33,000 feet (10,000 meters)
Armament: countermeasures/flares, chaff
Basic Crew: Three officers (pilot, co-pilot, combat system officer) and two enlisted loadmasters
Unit Cost: $66 million (fiscal 2010 replacement cost)
Initial operating capability: 2013.
Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), Edinburgh, 2/5/13.
Opening celebration for the new expansion.
Michael Hailu, Director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), at the launch of Climate-Smart Agriculture Success Stories, a book by CCAFS, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), a side event at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Photo by Neil Palmer (IWMI)
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August 4, 2024 - SpaceX Rocket Launch at 12:24 AM, as seen and photographed from my Home in Long Beach, CA.
The launch of the Atlas V that carried the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, to orbit and set it on its way to Mars.
Launch was at 10:02 AM on November 26, 2011. Curiosity is scheduled to arrive at Mars around August 5.
It will explore the area around Gale Crater for about 1 Martian year under its prime mission. If the rover continues to be in good health, the mission will be extended.
These photos were taken from the roof of the Launch Control Complex (LCC), right next to the VAB at Kennedy Space Center.
Balloon launch to commemorate Richard Crosbie’s flight in 1785 from Ranelagh Gardens. The weather was perfect for pilot Tom McCormack to take off. Special permission was required from the Aviation Authority and this flight is very unlikely ever to be repeated.
Photo (c) Daragh Owens
Our Corner Grocery Store
By Joanne Schwartz
Illustrated by Laura Beingessner
Blogged about here:
tundrabooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/launch-of-our-corner...
Link to The Globe and Mail article: www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090425.wENT...
This is actually a comp of six images. Five were taken about an hour before launch and are bent into a Mercatur projection showing the photographers on either side of me. Onto this pano I comp'd a single frame from my wide-angle camera roll of the launch itself.
Photoshop disaster? You tell me.
Soldiers of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 94th Field Artillery Regiment, load empty rocket packs from a M142 high mobility rocket system during a decisive action training environment exercise on Oct. 4, 2016 near Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The unit certified four HIMARS operator crews as well as a contingent of forward observers during the exercise (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Aaron Ellerman)
SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This was a 3 minute long exposure to capture the rocket trail, and the “star” is the full moon - this effect is due to the wide angle lens I was using and the camera settings. I was pleased with this one as it was a “one shot” deal - no second chances if you mess up the settings or the field of view or anything else! It’s also interesting to look at the people on the beach - there are hardly any “shadow” images from people moving, which shows that more or less everyone was still for that 3 minutes watching the rocket!
Balloon launch to commemorate Richard Crosbie’s flight in 1785 from Ranelagh Gardens. The weather was perfect for pilot Tom McCormack to take off. Special permission was required from the Aviation Authority and this flight is very unlikely ever to be repeated.
Photo (c) Daragh Owens
Vitamin Launch Party @ La Sexta House of Music en Tijuana, Mexico. Sabado, 31 de Enero del 2010. Checa las demas fotos en www.tjplebe.com
Vitamin Launch Party @ La Sexta House of Music at Tijuana, Mexico. Saturday, 31st of January of 2010. Check out the pictures at www.tjplebe.com
On June 16th 2018 Aerial Edge Launched Scotland's first full-sized flying trapeze rig in their venue at Kelvin Hall, the original home to carnival and circus in Glasgow's West End.
Photos by Richard Walker
Photo taken at the Launch Conference by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
Photo/image credit should read: (cc) Kenneth Yeung - www.snapfoc.us
Luncheon celebrating the launch of CMU's new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. September 22, 2012.
King Brown magazine Launch
(Issue 3)
Aerosol & Acrylic on plywood.
August 2007.
More photos:
blog.slamxhype.com/koan/2007/08/07/paper-shadow-launch-pa...
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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, with NASA’s Orion spacecraft mounted atop, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 at at 7:05 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Florida. The Orion spacecraft will orbit Earth twice, reaching an altitude of approximately 3,600 miles above Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean. No one is aboard Orion for this flight test, but the spacecraft is designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls via NASA 1.usa.gov/1vTIY6h
Photos from the “Enabling E-commerce” Launch event photo gallery may be reproduced provided attribution is given to the WTO and the WTO is informed. Photos: © WTO/ Cuika Foto
Danny Reed Vs Darius Knight, pictured at the Launch of Ping at St. Pancras Station, London, 22nd July 2010.
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