Lockheed WC-130
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lockheed-wc-130-186-9309751
title:
Lockheed WC-130
text:
The Lockheed WC-130 is a high-wing, medium-range aircraft used for weather reconnaissance missions by the United States Air Force. The aircraft is a modified version of the C-130 Hercules transport configured with specialized weather instrumentation including a dropsonde deployment/receiver system and crewed by a meteorologist for penetration of tropical cyclones and winter storms to obtain data on movement, size and intensity. The USAF's Air Weather Service (AWS) received its first C-130 Hercul
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Weather aircraft series by Lockheed
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_WC-130
date created:
2004-02-29T21:08:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:55:04Z
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