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...Guard.Operation Santa Claus relies on dozens of soldiers and citizen volunteers. Instead of a sleigh, he enlists a C-130 Hercules cargo plane, packed full of food and presents for Alaska's rural villages.Some years, Operation Santa Claus...
...final flight Sound off on the important issues at ANCHORAGE - Elmendorf Air Force Base is bidding farewell to the C-130 Hercules, a military workhorse cargo plane that first arrived 43 years ago. A crew took one of the last two C-130 flights...
...cooperation with several scientific agencies and the International Ice Patrol to place the buoy Wednesday from the back of a C-130 Hercules airplane. The buoys are typically deployed by ship or aircraft during iceberg reconnaissance. Many changes in Arctic...
...harass these guys," he said of the grinning friends who surrounded him. Day began his career in 1966 flying the C-130 Hercules. He served as a flight instructor for 19 years on 737-200s and 737-400s, McNamara said. Lately, he has been...
...19th Fighter Squadron at noon flew over the Anchorage town square a thousand feet off the ground. In the evening, a C-130 Hercules from Elemendorf's 517th Airlift Squadron was to fly over Eagle River's town square, where a candlelight memorial...
...harass these guys," he said of the grinning friends who surrounded him. Day began his career in 1966 flying the C-130 Hercules. He served as a flight instructor for 19 years on 737-200s and 737-400s, McNamara said. Lately, he has been...
...quickly called her husband asking for the Air Station operations officer's phone number. Her thought was if a C-130 Hercules aircraft was going to Anchorage anyway, maybe they could help this family out. A GLIMMER OF HOPE Coast Guard Cmdr...
...off of - the two controllers ensconced in the window-lined tower keep in contact with everything from a wide-body C-130 Hercules to a homemade single-engine plane by radio and by sight. ``Radar makes it a lot easier to see traffic, but...
...from about 15 miles out on the ice, but it took them two days to cover the distance. A patrolling Coast Guard C-130 Hercules flew over as the men closed in on the coast, Matvey said. He raised it on the VHF radio the Russians carried...