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Three C-130 Hercules transport planes roared low across the Florida panhandle last week, two flying tightly as a pair, one trailing without its partner. This is the traditional "missing buddy" formation of the U.S. Air Force, a symbol of mourning for lost fliers. On the ground, in a green...
Two lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules...
Actually, two aircraft were ablaze. One of the helicopters had refueled on the ground from a C130. When the large plane's tank ran dry, the chopper lifted slightly to move toward another C-130 to pick up more fuel. But in doing so, the pilot turned his RH-53...
The legislators who attended the meetings with Carter revealed few of the details about the mission, and Secretary Brown was even more secretive on the subject at his press conference. Gradually, however, the outlines of the plan became clear. The helicopters were to have carried the commandos to a second...
July 1976: Pro-Palestinian gunmen hijacked an Air France jet to Entebbe Airport on the outskirts of Kampala in Uganda. Holding 106 people hostage, the terrorists demanded the release of 53 prisoners from jails in Israel, Kenya and several European countries. Israeli commandos aboard three C-130 Hercules transports swept...