Japanese Lockheed C-130H Hercules Registration: 05-1084 The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a medium-range transport aircraft from Lockheed. It is a four-engine turboprop aircraft in use by many NATO forces. The aircraft was designed in the 1950s and in 2006, after the English Electric Canberra (2001) and B-52 Stratofortress (2005), became the third military aircraft to fly for more than 50 years with its first customer (in this case, the U.S. Air Force). In all those years, more than 40 different models have been sold to more than 50 countries. This picture was taken on 16 April 2015 at Nagoya Airport (Japan).
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…