HERCULES IN THE COMMERCIAL WORLD

David Willis examines the civil variants of the Hercules family and details the latest version being offered. Commercial aircraft dominated flying displays during the trade days at 2018’s Farnborough International Airshow. The demonstration by Lockheed Martin’s retiring chief test pilot, Wayne Roberts, wowed the crowd with a corkscrew manoeuvre that inverted the LM- 100J he was flying. The very first Hercules was known as the YC-130 and the type first flew 65 years ago. The majority of examples have been