Hình đẹp kỹ thuật hải lực và không lực trên thế giới - Phần 1

Maintainers from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force''s Iraq Reconstruction Support Airlift Wing tow one of their C-130s from the flightline at a forward operating base in Southwest Asia.

Airman 1st Class Michael Wilson waits for passengers to board a C-130 Hercules at Ramstein Air Base on Monday, June 5, 2006, for the day''s mission to Stuttgart and Grafenwoehr, Germany. Airman Wilson is a loadmaster with the 37th Airlift Squadron at Ramstein.

C-17 Globemaster III aircrew members prepare the rigging for parachutes for an upcoming airdrop training mission May 16, 2006, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The aircrew members are from the 535th Airlift Squadron. The training provides multi-element training for the pilots enables users to get larger amounts of equipment in a short period of time and maintains aircrew proficiency.

Lightning strikes near the control tower and a taxing C-130 Hercules at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Balad handles more than 750 cargo flights each month and is the Department of Defense''s busiest single runway. Using C-130s to fly in-theater airlift missions has reduced the number of ground convoys and troops exposed to roadside bomb attacks.

A C-130J Hercules from the Air National Guard''s 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Island ANG Base, Calif., flies along the coast of Santa Cruz Island near California.

Tech. Sgt. Charles Franks observes and instructs an Iraqi crew chief performing an inspection on the propeller of an Iraqi C-130E Hercules cargo aircraft at New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. Sergeant Franks is part of the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, Coalition Air Force Transition Team. The Iraqi trainee is with the 23rd Squadron.

An Iraqi C-130 Hercules taxis onto the runway shared by Baghdad International Airport and New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. The aircraft, YI-303, is one of three cargo aircraft at the new air base.

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- C-130 Hercules from various Air Force units sit on the flightline at a deployed location Feb. 5.

Richard Rivard taxis the final WC-130H aircraft out on the runway on its way to Willow Grove Air Reserve Station, Pa. Aircraft No. 980 was the last H-model aircraft to depart the 403rd Wing after its complete conversion to the WC-130J. Sergeant Rivard has served more than 20 years as a crew chief, mostly servicing H-models. He is an air reserve technician with the 403rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan (AFPN) -- C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 36th Airlift Squadron taxi out for a mission during a six-ship sortie. The squadron is the only forward-based tactical airlift squadron in the Pacific region. They provide C-130 aircrews to conduct theater airlift, special operations, aeromedical evacuation, search and rescue, repatriation and humanitarian relief missions.