It takes a lot to impress me when I look at flying displays. The flight routine by this Herc driver is very impressive. Nicely done.

Absolutely fantastic! I've flown many times on Hercs in the military and they're as incredible as you see in this vid - a fantastic airplane, and many thanks to the designers, builders and pilots and crews, they always brought us home!

@justincase5272

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you included the crews. We kept the pilots honest and well-entertained!

@cataderian

6 жыл бұрын

VR-22 Out of Rota, Spain. Spent many hours keeping supplies flowing to the Mediterranean. NEVER thought I'd see a C-130 do that. Impressive!

@cataderian

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget our superior maintenance personnel that kept those old buggers in tip top condition!

@IncredulousIndividual

4 жыл бұрын

Banky braindead take

Wayne Roberts chief LM test pilot. I'm proud to say I was his flight engineer in VP9 almost 40 years ago. He was this good then!

Guess I’m from a different generation , and have to beg to differ with people’s comments stating the plane didn’t loop. At time frame 2:00 the big gal loops !

Awesome! I flew the E-model three decades ago, and it never crossed my mind that a Herk could loop! Simply amazing!

Hell Yeah! Proving once again that this is my favorite plane!

Awesome. Absolutely amazing aircraft!

@jasonmillard9975

6 жыл бұрын

Thought I'd seen everything but holy crap that is some awesome stuff

Outstanding performance and airmanship!

Flew from Ft Lee Virginia to CamRhan Bay, Vietnam in one of these via California, Hawaii, Wake, Guam and Phillipines. Took about 43 hrs. I think. Hard to remember exact numbers from 1966. Glad to see they are still flying and proving their worth!

The pilots have balls of steel

@Jon.......

6 жыл бұрын

Why do you say that? With light fuel, no cargo, operating within parameters ... should be no problem. If Boeing can roll a 707 ... aviationweek.com/blog/707-flight-testing-and-not-talking-about-rolls-1956 and Bob Hoover can do airshow maneuvers on one engine, I'm sure a Herc can perform some aerobatics.

@paulm1905

6 жыл бұрын

will parker CARGO PILOTS

@Padoinky

6 жыл бұрын

along with a parachute

@justincase5272

6 жыл бұрын

Not in a civilian bird.

@Jon.......

6 жыл бұрын

... and a sick sack, some Depends and a spare flight suit

That's a great air show! Incredible.

Amazing loop

Brilliant display!Should get a few orders on the strength of this❤❤😎👍.

Seen the Mighty Herc do a lot of things but this is a first. Most beautiful and versatile plane in the skies.

Paging Mr. Johnson, Mr. "Tex" Johnson, please come to the red courtesy phone. This sold a lot of 707's for Boeing. Hope it does the same for Lockheed. Awesome flying demo.

@MyCatInABox

6 жыл бұрын

Ha! Good one.... I'll NEVER forget that pic taken from the window seat inside that 707 looking out on the wing while the world is upside down.

@hotrodray9884

6 жыл бұрын

Tex barrel rolled the 707. No loops.

@Shadowfax-1980

6 жыл бұрын

“Selling airplanes.”

INCREDIBLE!!!!

Impressive!

Awesome!

That's BAD ASSNESS right there! The brass kahoonas for this stunt extend from flight crew all the way back to the drawing board engineer. I would have bet money (and lost!) that that particular plane could not perform such a maneuver. Or those stepped climbs - AWESOME! Thumbs up for posting this, two thumbs up for the stunt.

Simply Amazing

I was studying the video to see if it was a simulator. No signs of that. Very impressive. The pilot really knew how to showcase the aircrafts capabilities.

Amazing to see the old Hercules still going strong after all these years. It's been landed on an aircraft carrier . Landed and taken off in an American football stadium. ..

An absolutely execelent video.

...amazing...

This is an INCREDIBLE display! I never knew that the "Herky" was that agile, at all!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱

wow that was awesome i guess they call her super for a reason my grandfathers favorite in the AF was the 130 and he still likes planes and airshows he would love this video

Amazing aircraft.

incredible

Amazing pilot and airplane

Love the Herc!

What a ridiculously capable airplane!!!

My grandfather worked on the c130 design team and I'm pretty sure that never thought in a million years it would ever be able to do a loop

One of the greatest aircraft ever.

I had to watch this twice....

Impressive for such a large aircraft.

awesome i can't believe aircraft and pilot.

I love that plane.

Pretty amazing.

Nice!

That's one powerful ship.

Impressive

very impressive

That’s insane.

Man that thing is flying around like it's a miniature remote Remote airplane amazing

Right there, that was something.

Incrível !

Wow!!

Epic

Allmmmmmooostt a real loop. He bailed on it towards the end. 90 degrees off original heading at the end. More like a HUGE a huge barrel role. Everyone inside definitely getting negative g time though. Fun. Glad he didn’t break the wing like that firefighter C130 did a few years back.

@honey5bucket

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you refer to the C-130A which crashed in 2002 when cracks in the wing spar caused the wing to fail. An Airworthiness directive was issued on all C-130A aircraft detailing the problem and inspections required. None of which apply to brand new production LM-100Js.

Hello nice video looking to view you next saludos

Although it's a modernized civilian version of the C-130.....that was AWESOME seeing one do a loop like that.....next up, they need to try a C-17 Globemaster.....just a thought. Awesome video :)

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Capt speaking, we will interrupt our (boring) automated flight to make this a little more... fun! So please relax and enjoy the art of hand-flying! Then, looping and also zero-to-negatives G’s came up!.... amazing, tks for posting!

Anything that can Takeoff & Landing Shortly is awesome

wow impressive

LM-100J? Oh, a Herc! Well of course its amazing. Best airframe ever designed.

@superhero6297

2 жыл бұрын

No the dc3 :)

The modern day DC-3....! A fantastic tactical aircraft....!

I'm surprised they allowed it at all these days in our Wet Lefty- Liberal England (at least in the North) , but just a fabulous plane and love to see its still a viable buy !

Clucking Bell, mighty herkybird.

Kinda want to see two Hercs in a mock dog fight now.

Bet the 'Loadie' had fun in the back!

Ok... that was like really cool.

Wow

Excellent. In spite of the politicized commenters on KZread, who wrongly portray the super maneouverability displays of the Sukhois and Migs as useless circus stunts, this type of apparently useless display has a significant value. Just like Raptors doing Cobras; Ospreys and Harriers hovering, flying sideways, backwards and bowing to the spectators; and helicopters doing loops, this Hercules displays special abilities that open the door to new possibilities. Not that it will be looping around; but as a gunship it will have excellent agility for a cargo truck. That’s the whole point of all these “crazy” displays: to show possibilities for new capabilities. The loop was a classic loop abandoned at its last 1/4. It entered wings level, topped and dived wings “level” and recovered banking away. Very nice. If you use QuickTime, you can follow it by clicking second by second. This pilot is a true professional who, obviously learned the lessons from the accidents of a B-52 at Fairchild AFB and a Nimrod in a Toronto Air Show. Both, piloted by crowd pleasers, performed low altitude wing-overs, stalled and had no room to recover. I saw the Nimrod perform the stunt twice before the crash. On both occasions, when he reached the top of the maneouvre, his speed was so low that I (as a pilot) experienced the proverbial strong and sickening sensation of my testes sharply and literally raising to my throat. I was scared. This Hercules pilot wisely kept one eye on his speed/angle of attack as can be seen in his smart way of quickly reaching a safe display altitude, by steep climbing and lowering the nose to regain safe speed (zoom climbing). At no point during his display, my “gut indicator” was triggered. It was pure joy! Kudos.

Remember the barrell roll of the RNLAF F-27 Troopship, during which they even shutdown an engine?

@voornaam3191

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qZWesdSmaLjWnbw.html

@singel09

6 жыл бұрын

Hans Kooiman precies dat

Pilot got skills

It’s not like that has been done before but that size of plane wow Beyond impressive and I saw a comment that the pilot had balls of steel I think that’s an understatement

@apexxxx10

6 жыл бұрын

American Gooeyduck THAT WAS A STUPID STATEMENT and BAD USING BAD LANGUAGE!

@americangooeyduck5743

6 жыл бұрын

John K Lindgren i’m sorry I offended you put your big boy pants on and get over it was it 100% polite know but it wasn’t foul go find yourself a safe space and a coloring book and some coloring crayons And go see your counselor you’ve got to be kidding me the whole pie in my statement was that maneuver is not new but with that size of plain extremely impressive and for a pilot to do that yeah they would see how what I said and not offend you being a man oh wait that’s sexist

Deadly Super Impressive Loop -------> No Doubt Technologies Are Leading Towards Zero Errors. ♥♥♥

Now I know what heads my Power Ball lottery dream buy list.

Who cares if the loop was pretty or not? A loop of any kind in a plane like that is pretty damn incredible imo.

Holy shit!!!!!!! Nuff said

Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

Simply Awesome!!! Who would have ever thought an aircraft like the Hercules could actually loop and remain in one piece! Sure it was not carrying anything and it had the minimum amount of fuel necessary to safely preform the flight but WOW! I don’t think that Airbus would ever try that with their A400M, if they did the wings would probably fold. C-130s and LM-100s are the BEST!

@artisanautobody3931

6 жыл бұрын

Surely they were able to do the math on wing loading and found that there was plenty of margin for this maneuver when unladen. The wing boxes on this beast must be awfully sturdy...

I used to jump out of those C-130s, I knew those pilots were holding back. (cue the snicker)

@C-130-Hercules

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Sgt D 👍🍟

@ivanlowjones

4 жыл бұрын

44 jumps at Ft. Bragg back when I was a young paratrooper in the mid '80s.

@Scott11078

4 жыл бұрын

A buddy of mine destroyed his back during his last jump. I don't remember the altitude just that he said it was way too low someone screwed up. All he remembered was an immediate and hard chute deployment one one thousand GROUND.

Is there an in-cockpit video? surely.

Holy shit! Never tried this with the H-version...

Landing gear as belly-side airbrakes? Damn! The loop, too!

dang dude

Production ended in 1992? Are they starting it back up or why the first time airshow performance 26 years later?

@josephmercer9576

6 жыл бұрын

The previous model with a shorter fuselage was last produced in 1992. the current J-model, as shown is still being produced to this day with upgraded Rolls-Royce engines and 6- bladed props as well as a lot of other modern upgrades.

Incredible. A 1955 design.

this needs to come to the southport or blackpool airshow

This isn't a loop, it's a wing over, but as it's almost directly above the camera, it looks like a loop. Still impressive though with at least 120° angle of bank, pilot has balls of steel.

I can't wait for the next time the Blue Angels are in Spokane. I hope that Fat Albert will add a loop to its routine. That was super cool.

time 1:50

@SimonPeel

6 жыл бұрын

Doing god's work.

@stevebroughton4787

6 жыл бұрын

1, the plane wouldn't be allowed over the crowd, so couldn't fly over the camera. 2, the angle of the wing looked level at the top of the loop before the roll out. Either way, very impressive.

@Motorman2112

6 жыл бұрын

You've replied to the wrong comment.

@rkan2

6 жыл бұрын

and almost at 2:20

WOW!! Old "fat Albert" can still dance around in the skies likes he's a teenager #impressive

@imbetterthanyouis

6 жыл бұрын

dancing , thats the term i was thinking too

@garrykennedy5484

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Hey Hey! It's FAAAAAAAAAAAT Albert!

@imbetterthanyouis

6 жыл бұрын

flying so fast the worlds a blur ,,,,,,,,,,, oh wait

@justincase5272

6 жыл бұрын

"Fat Albert" is the U.S. Navy's C-130B Blue Angels Support Aircraft. This is an LM-100J. Major difference.

@imbetterthanyouis

6 жыл бұрын

+justin case fat albert is a generic nickname for the herc, piss off you dont know what your on about

Wow. This was fantastic. Nicely filmed, too. The hubbub of conversation was a bit irritating given what was going on. What does it take to shut some people up?

@cedriclynch

6 жыл бұрын

What does it take to shut some people up? Engines that are not as quiet as these!

This pilot is good.With my help he could be the best.

Given the other maneuvers, a barrel roll would have been easy-peasey, and wildly impressive!

@ejcm55

2 жыл бұрын

The same loads.

Huevos grandes!!

Can it do a loop like that with an abrams tank inside? If so i hope they lash it properly because they forgot one the other day.

@FireAngelOfLondon

6 жыл бұрын

An Abrams would be far too heavy for any variant of the Hercules. Cargo weight limits are around 19-20 tons depending upon fuel load, the Abrams weighs 60-70 tons depending upon which version you are talking about.

What airline was that.

Its like the guy who did a barrel roll in a 707

Holy smokes.

Non-aviation person here (but I do qualify for AA Executive Platinum status, on a yearly basis LOL). What is the design rationale for using turboprop engines vs. jet engines? Thanks

@cedriclynch

6 жыл бұрын

Rationale for the turboprop engines vs. jet: much shorter take-off and landing distance, and lower fuel consumption. Take a flight in a turboprop airliner and feel the acceleration for take-off!

Would this be possible on a commercial jet or are Prop planes the only planes that can do stunts?

Can it do that with troops inside? :-)

Was the pilot serving tea in the cockpit while inverted? RIP Bob Hoover.

That was just plain scary.

The 1st RNZAF C-130H is still flying at the young age of 53.

I wonder what the loadmaster was doing in the cargo hold, lol.

And people say Lockheed have built a dog in the F35. These guys know how to build great planes. The Hurcules the best military transport plane since the Dak bar none.