USAF C-130 Photos

USAF C-130E baking in midday sun at Phu Cat Airbase 1971 located along the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. Coastal hills and blossoming thunderstorms in the background. You can see a crewmember seated on the ground in the shade of the wing … while parked on the ramp the inside of the aircraft was like an oven with temps well over 100 degrees. Same heat was true during taxi and takeoff as the air conditioning was ineffective until after liftoff when engines really got going to provide the AC energy. To the rear of the plane a tractor fork lift is moving a large pallet of cargo into position for loading. [photo by Robert D Young]