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frequency radio and other sensing devices and is released from the aircraft over water. As the instrument descends to the sea surface, it measures and relays to the aircraft a vertical atmospheric profile of the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure and wind data. The dropsonde is slowed and stabilized by a small parachute. Through use of the Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), the Dropsonde System Operator generates the "vertical data" (also referred to as "Drops") needed by the NHC, receiving, analyzing and encoding the data for transmission by satellite.
208: 40: 317:. They penetrate tropical cyclones and hurricanes at altitudes ranging from 500 to 10,000 feet (150 to 3,050 m) above the ocean surface depending upon the intensity of the storm. The most important function of these reconnaissance aircraft is to collect high-density, high-accuracy weather data from within the storm's environment. This includes penetration of the center or hurricane eye of the storm. This vital information is instantly relayed by satellite to the National Hurricane Center to aid in the accurate forecasting of hurricane movement and intensity. 557:, aerial reconnaissance weather officer and weather reconnaissance loadmaster. The 53d WRS maintains twenty air crews (ten full-time and ten part-time) to meet its capabilities obligations in support of requirements for the National Hurricane Operations Plan of five sorties per day from Keesler AFB and two from deployed locations. Weather data instrumentation and the dropsonde delivery and recording systems are mounted in the aircraft on removable pallets at the front end of the cargo compartment, giving the aircraft a standard cargo mission capability also. 484:) became excess because of budgetary reductions. With Hurricane Camille still fresh in the minds of Congress and the American public and retention of the AWS flying mission still strong in MAC Headquarters, AWS proposed to Headquarters Air Force in March 1972 that its 16 WC-130Bs be replaced by a like number of the available HC-130Hs. The request was approved in December 1972 but altered a month later. AWS was ordered to retain three of the Bs and could give up the other 13 in return for 11 HC-130Hs. $ 4.5 million was budgeted for WRAMA to transfer the 975:; an AN/AMQ-29 Dropsonde Data Recording System; a Hewlett-Packard 9100B Desktop Programmable Calculator; an AN/AMQ-34 Cambridge Optical Dewpoint Hygrometer; a Barnes Engineering PRT-5 Infrared Sea-Surface Temperature System; three strip chart recorders (for recording wind speed and direction data, ambient dew point, sea-surface temperature, pressure altitude and radar altitude); and a AN/AMQ-31 Dropsonde Dispenser and AN/AMT-13 Radiosonde. All but the dropsonde dispenser were installed with their controllers in a new console on the flight deck. 634: 530: 424:(TAC) and three obtained new. All were modified with the AMT-1 dropsonde system and assigned to the 54th WRS, where they remained until 1972. From then to 1987, when they were assigned permanently to the 53d WRS, the E-models were assigned to the operational demands of all the operational weather reconnaissance squadrons. In 1989 they were upgraded with the Improved Weather Reconnaissance System ("I-Wars") utilizing the 262:
created in Southeast Asia in 1967 and 11 more WC-130Bs were added in 1970 to replace the WB-47s, which had been abruptly retired from service in September 1969. The first of 15 WC-130Hs was converted in 1973 from rescue command and control aircraft (that had themselves been modified from C-130Es). Service life of some of these variants over-lapped as they operated with the 53rd,
564:, but with wing-mounted auxiliary fuel tanks is capable of staying aloft almost 18 hours at an optimum cruise speed of more than 300 mph (260 kn; 480 km/h). An average weather reconnaissance mission lasts 11 hours and covers almost 3,500 miles (3,000 nmi; 5,600 km). The crew collects and reports weather data as often as every minute. 258:, approved the plan on 31 August 1961; the next day the Soviet Union resumed nuclear testing. Headquarters Air Force authorized the acquisition of five new C-130Bs factory-configured for the sampling mission to be delivered in April 1962 when AWS would become the air sampling single-manager. These became the first weather-mission C-130 aircraft. 568:
as turbulence, icing, visibility, cloud types and amounts, and ocean surface winds. The ARWO uses the equipment to determine the storm's center and analyze atmospheric conditions such as pressure, temperature, dew point and wind speed to create a Vortex Data Message sent to the National Hurricane Center.
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The Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer operates the computerized weather reconnaissance equipment, generates the "horizontal data" measurements (also known as "Recco"), and acts as flight director inside the storm environment. The weather officer also evaluates other meteorological conditions such
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In the meantime a bilateral moratorium with the Soviet Union on the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons was starting its third year when a suggestion was made that the classified air sampling program monitoring the moratorium and being conducted by at least five USAF commands be consolidated under
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in 1992 again demonstrated the need for "hurricane hunting" and state-of-the-art equipment to accomplish it, and the 53d was resurrected as a full-time unit of AFRC in 1993. The WC-130s were transferred back to it but the H-models were showing their age and between 1999 and 2005 all were replaced by
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A critical piece of weather equipment on board the WC-130J is the GPS Dropsonde Windfinding System, a cylindrically-shaped instrument about 16 inches (41 cm) long and 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) in diameter and weighing approximately 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg). The dropsonde is equipped with a high
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The WC-130J was the first variant obtained new from the factory since 1965. Ten were procured and assigned to the 53d WRS, now the only manned weather reconnaissance unit in the Department of Defense. The new model encountered teething problems that delayed its Initial Operational Capability until
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on 29 September 1987 to build and install 20 IWRS suites but two days later the 54th WRS was inactivated, leaving only ten WC-130s in service, seven with the 53d WRS and three in the Air Force Reserve. Even so, the IWRS system went operational in the WC-130H in 1988 and remains standard equipment.
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rated at 4,910 shaft horsepower (3,660 kW) and had wing-mounted fuel tanks that provided an additional 2,720 US gallons (2,260 imp gal; 10,300 L) of fuel, extending the WC-130H's radius of action at maximum cruise speed (230 knots (260 mph; 430 km/h) (KIAS), 350 knots
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After the five C-130Bs became operational with AWS, conversions of six C-130Es followed in 1965 but as weather platforms. A dropsonde system was installed in all the C-130Bs and the designation of all C-130 weather variants was permanently changed to "WC-130" on 25 August 1965. Three WC-130As were
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AVAPS is a self-contained system installed in two standard 19-inch racks that records current atmospheric conditions vertically below the WC-130J aircraft as a deployed sonde falls to the surface. AVAPS consists of expendable sondes, a Dropsonde Telemetry Chassis, high power computer, and a color
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The WB-47s had never been popular in their weather reconnaissance role, primarily because their Bendix-Friez data processing and communications system had not been fully tested and rarely worked, and were far from optimal since they were forbidden for structural reasons from penetrating tropical
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deterrent force resulted in the shutdown of two AWS squadrons, followed by three more in March 1960. The problems with the WB-50, brought to a head in May 1960 by fuel leaks that grounded the entire 66-plane fleet, accelerated the process, which scheduled a complete phaseout by 1963. AWS fought
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northeast of The Philippines. A former weather recon aircraft, H-model 65-0968, was lost on 2 May 2018 while serving with the Puerto Rico Air National Guard on its final ferry flight to retirement. Two WC-130B models were lost to crashes after being sold to international customers, and another
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weather satellites at Headquarters AF and in the AWS. A "selective" tropical storm reconnaissance program was instituted in the Western Pacific in 1971 after TIROS was introduced, reducing the number of sorties flown and their associated costs, while the U.S. Navy had withdrawn from the manned
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Between May 2007 and February 2008, all ten WC-130J were equipped with the Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR or "Smurf"), which continuously measures the surface winds and rainfall rates below the aircraft, mounted in a radome on the right wing outboard of the number four engine.
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engines rated at 4,050 shaft horsepower (3,020 kW), had a cruising speed of 350 knots (400 mph; 650 km/h), a radius of action of 1,200 miles (1,000 nmi; 1,900 km) with a payload of 25,000 pounds (11,000 kg), and a service ceiling of 30,000 feet (9,144 m).
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The WC-130J provides data vital to tropical cyclone forecasting. The WC-130J usually penetrates hurricanes at an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet (3,000 m) to collect meteorological data in the vortex, or eye, of the storm. The aircraft normally flies a radius of about 100 miles
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had incrementally reduced its reliance on WC-130 data until by 1986, although unquestionably more reliable than that from the satellites, it nevertheless made up less than 10% of the data used by JTWC to plot typhoons. The 53d WRS at Keesler was also a target, but it still had strong
274:. The -E and -H models have had the greatest longevity in service, 28 and 32 years respectively. Of the seven original weather reconnaissance squadrons, four of which received the WC-130 at some point, only the 53d WRS remains active, now assigned to the 444:, a rain-making operation in Southeast Asia. In early 1967 they were modified for an additional weather reconnaissance mission by installation of the AMT-1 dropsonde system. Two were based for the dual missions on a rotational basis at 224:
and other structural problems with the type was to end its service by 1965. The C-130 Hercules was desired by the AWS as the best alternative but budgetary limitations prevented the procurement of new aircraft for the mission.
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retrofits. Efforts to develop forward-looking and side-looking weather radars were unsuccessful. The second batch of C-130Bs were in service only a few years before all were de-modified and turned over to the reserve forces.
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Manned weather reconnaissance continued to be reduced when AWS finally divested itself of its flying mission in 1991 by inactivating the 53d WRS and transferring both the mission and its few remaining aircraft assets to the
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as its primary weather reconnaissance platform with a fleet of WB-50Ds deployed in seven squadrons. Between 1956 and 1960 six WB-50 accidents resulted in the loss of an entire crew and caused the deaths of 66 crew members;
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Manned weather reconnaissance for the second time faced a campaign to put it out of business to gain its funding, this time from supporters of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and its
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These were all built as standard C-130E transports and reconfigured as HC-130H. Their serial numbers were 64-14861 and -14866; and 65-0963 through -0969, and -0972, -0976, -0977, -0980, -0984, and -0985.
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The information collected makes possible advance warning of hurricanes and increases the accuracy of hurricane predictions and warnings by as much as 30%. Collected data are relayed directly to the
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had always considered aerial weather reconnaissance an expendable luxury when budget cuts were necessary or when funds were needed for expensive programs. In 1958 its desire to field a large
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gave his support for the proposal, modification of 34 WB-47Es in 1963 for the AWS was approved and the re-activation of three discontinued weather recon squadrons scheduled for 1962.
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against the decision, however, and the proposed permanent shutdown of AWS's flying mission alarmed high-level operational commanders worldwide, including the admiral commanding the
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suite consisted of an AN/APN-42 Radar Altimeter, AN/AMQ-28 Rosemount Total Temperature System, and AN/AMQ-19 Dropsonde receiver and control panel previously mounted in retired
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missions in Vietnam, but one of his first actions when he was appointed Air Force Chief of Staff in August 1969 was to order their immediate retirement. (Fuller 359)
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jets but by 1965 the AWS had decided it would better served by the WC-130 in the manned weather reconnaissance role. Since that year the Air Force and
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equipment and designated WC-130H, replacing all 16 WC-130Bs in the weather reconnaissance squadrons. The WC-130H was equipped with the more powerful
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equipment from the Bs to the newer Hs, and the changeover occurred between June 1973 and July 1974. Four additional HC-130Hs were converted in 1975.
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In 1998 the original Omega Navigation Equipment for the DWS was replaced by the GPS-based Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS).
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The second batch of veteran C-130Bs acquired were s/n's 58-0725, -0726, -0729, 0-731, -0733, -0734, -0740, -0741, -0742, -0747, -0752, and -0758.
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The system then in use consisted of the AN/AMR-1 Radiosonde Receptor manufactured by Landers, Frary and Clark, and the Bendix AN/AMT-6 dropsonde.
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a single manager and agency. AWS lobbied for the mission and submitted a plan in February 1961 naming itself the single manager. LeMay, now
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have operated a total of 50 WC-130s in five variants. The WC-130J Weatherbird is the current weather data collection platform for the
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wings for use again in their original tactical airlift role or as training aircraft, while others were sold to foreign air forces.
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The ARWO station is mounted on the port side facing aft and the dropsonde operator's position on the starboard facing forward.
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greatly enhanced the capability and safety of the WC-130 in its penetration of tropical cyclones on critical "fix" missions.
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The WC-130J model, introduced in 1999, is currently the weather reconnaissance platform for the 53rd WRS, part of the
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The WC-130 provides vital tropical cyclone forecasting information and is the primary weather data collector for the
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to all areas of SEA. All three reverted to C-130A standard in 1971 after their replacement by upgraded models.
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in August 1969 and the simultaneous shutdown of the WB-47 program, funds were appropriated to fund Project
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previously installed in WC-130H model and remained in regular operational service until retired in 1993.
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The Lockheed C-130 has been operated as a Weather Reconnaissance aircraft in the following sub-types:
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With the drawdown of U.S. participation in the war in Southeast Asia, a number of extended-range
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6-bladed propellers from hail and ice and a lack of sensitivity in its color radar images.
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1,600 nmi (1,800 mi, 3,000 km) with 35,000 lb (15,876 kg) payload
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has been lost during operational missions, H-model 65-0965, on 12 October 1974, flying in
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The six E-models were serial numbers 61-2360, 61-2365, 61-2366 and 64-0552 through -0554.
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and modified in 1970–1971 with the new equipment suite. One was soon transferred to the
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AF s/n 96-5300 through −5302, 97–5303 through −5306, 98–5307 and −5308, and 99-5309.
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in September 1961. The Air Force was then in the process of replacing its fleet of
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The WC-130J carries a minimum crew of five: pilot/aircraft commander, co-pilot,
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Five new C-130Bs factory-configured for air sampling were delivered to the
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28,000 ft (8,500 m) with 42,000 lb (19,051 kg) payload
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transport configured with specialized weather instrumentation including a
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Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937–1987
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The first group of B-models were AF serial numbers 62-3492 through -3496.
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operational WC-130B aircraft was destroyed on the ground by a hurricane.
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weather reconnaissance business entirely in 1975. As a consequence, the
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58-0731 was re-numbered with civil registration N8037 and nicknamed
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A total of 15 HC-130H rescue Hercules were eventually modified with
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In 1965 the Air Force procured six E-model variants to replace six
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Three C-130A transports were obtained from TAC in 1966 during the
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and winter storms to obtain data on movement, size and intensity.
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The three A-models were serial numbers 56-519, 56-522 and 56-537
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R391 constant-speed fully-feathering reversible-pitch propellers
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A WC-130H-LM from the 54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
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WC-130J on the ramp at Dobbins Air Reserve Base during
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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Archived from 560:The aircraft is not equipped for 44:A WC-130J Hercules over RIAT 2023 810: 749:155,000 lb (70,307 kg) 632: 321:Variants and operational history 38: 5181:Four-engined turboprop aircraft 1256: 1215: 1206: 1108: 1099: 1086: 1077: 1068: 1044: 1035: 1018: 1009: 1000: 991: 978: 961: 454:synoptic weather reconnaissance 446:Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base 351:Warner Robins Air Materiel Area 1176: 952: 943: 934: 914: 909:Military Air Transport Service 889: 544:2005 Atlantic hurricane season 202: 13: 1: 5171:Four-engined tractor aircraft 877: 236:United States Pacific Command 132:is a high-wing, medium-range 1058:Joint Typhoon Warning Center 895:The five commands were SAC, 615: 7: 5078:Non-sequential designations 3831:military transport aircraft 803: 10: 5212: 1173:Fuller (1990), pp. 234–235 1026:South Vietnamese air force 468:WC-130H Hercules in flight 345:, Alaska. In 1965 all had 300: 5136: 5105: 5077: 5040:Revived original sequence 5039: 4745: 3842: 3789: 2605: 2589: 2538: 2507: 2406: 2370: 2344: 2269: 2233: 2182: 2146: 2139: 2079: 2048: 2012: 1981: 1955: 1948: 1881: 1845: 1772: 1706: 1658: 1597: 1590: 1524: 1503: 1437: 1406: 872:List of Lockheed aircraft 649:Air Force Reserve Command 626:Air Force Reserve Command 585:National Hurricane Center 514:Air Force Reserve Command 349:systems installed at the 307:National Hurricane Center 287:Air Force Reserve Command 276:Air Force Reserve Command 112: 104: 99: 89: 81: 65: 54: 49: 37: 32: 5161:Lockheed Martin aircraft 1323:Fuller, John F. (1990). 1024:56-519 was given to the 831:Operation Christmas Drop 818:Tropical cyclones portal 684:403rd Wing, USAF Reserve 482:Military Airlift Command 339:McClellan Air Force Base 256:Air Force Chief of Staff 5196:Lockheed C-130 Hercules 3843:Army/Air Force sequence 1585:aircraft and spacecraft 1532:Accidents and incidents 1400:Lockheed C-130 Hercules 1299:m-selig.ae.illinois.edu 848:Lockheed C-130 Hercules 689:General characteristics 644:United States Air Force 622:United States Air Force 601:United States Air Force 591:Accidents and incidents 503:A contract was awarded 426:Omega Navigation System 414:Anderson Air Force Base 238:. The commander of the 142:United States Air Force 94:United States Air Force 1362:Tech Report: Dropsonde 555:combat systems officer 538: 525:WC-130J (1999–present) 469: 343:Eielson Air Force Base 309:, supplemented by the 227:Headquarters Air Force 212: 138:weather reconnaissance 59:Weather reconnaissance 1773:C-130 Hercules family 1640:8-D, E & G Altair 1212:Fuller (1990), p. 355 1161:Fuller (1990), p. 357 1030:Tan Son Nhut Air Base 757:Rolls-Royce AE 2100D3 532: 467: 240:Strategic Air Command 217:WB-29 Superfortresses 210: 121:C-130J Super Hercules 5106:Related designations 4746:Tri-service sequence 1982:Shooting Star family 1846:L-188 Electra family 1707:Constellation family 1028:and was captured at 860:Lockheed WP-3D Orion 624:, especially by its 546:. Conversion of the 422:Tactical Air Command 364:In the aftermath of 355:Ramey Air Force Base 928:Operation Arc Light 901:Air Defense Command 837:Related development 747:Max takeoff weight: 460:WC-130H (1973–2005) 432:WC-130A (1967–1970) 400:WC-130E (1965–1993) 329:WC-130B (1962–1973) 165:Air Weather Service 156:for penetration of 50:General information 5176:High-wing aircraft 2013:Starfighter family 1264:"WC-130J Hercules" 1094:composite material 921:cyclones. 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Index

WC-130

Weather reconnaissance
Manufacturer
Lockheed
Lockheed Martin
United States Air Force
C-130 Hercules
C-130J Super Hercules
aircraft
weather reconnaissance
United States Air Force
C-130 Hercules
dropsonde
meteorologist
tropical cyclones
Air Weather Service
Soviet Union
WB-50 weather reconnaissance aircraft
WB-47E
Air Force Reserve
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
one WC-130
Typhoon Bess

WB-29 Superfortresses
metal fatigue
Headquarters Air Force
ICBM
United States Pacific Command

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