Aug. 2 (UPI) --The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing is training with ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules cargo planes at Raven Camp, Greenland, for landing operations in remote snow and ice ...

Gone are the days when large formations of airplanes took to the skies to reach enemy targets and bomb them to oblivion. Despite a major war going on in Europe at the moment, and several others taking ...

STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Scotia, N.Y.--The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing transported 3,900 people, and carried 4 million pounds of supplies and 1.2 million pounds of fuel ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- LC-130 Hercules aircraft will have a smoother takeoff from Antarctica and Greenland thanks to the 109th Maintenance Squadron.

Standing in front of a decades-old LC-130H cargo plane at the Stratton Air National Guard base in Glenville on Monday, U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Charles Schumer called for $290 million in defense ...

Not that present in daily news, the military hardware designed to operate in harsh conditions such as in snow and ice sure come in the form of impressive machines. One needs to look no further than ...

NUNAVUT, Canada — Thirty-seven U.S. and Canadian soldiers were tactically inserted by way of an LC-130 Hercules on Arctic Ocean ice just east of Little Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada, during ...

An LC-130 Hercules “ski-bird” recently flew a heart attack victim from Antarctica to New Zealand for medical treatment, Pacific Air Forces announced this week. A civilian logistics specialist suffered ...

Maureen Baillargeon Aumand presents an excellent look at our government's use of drones in her commentary ("Drone strikes reveal a lost moral compass," Nov. 17). The ever-increasing number of drone ...

An LC-130 "Skibird" assigned to the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing between missions at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the National Science Foundation research center in Antarctica on ...

The U.S. Air Force is now being urged to enhance its skiplanes. A C-130 Hercules aircraft comes into land at the Townsville airport on September 11, 2020 in Townsville, Australia. Australian Defence ...

The Chilean air force is the first international customer to purchase upgraded, eight-bladed propellers for its Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transports. The propeller system, made by ...