Lockheed C130 Hercules [Hardcover]

Peter C Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 7, 2001

The Hercules has served many countries in peace and war for more than 30 years. It continues to be modified and sold internationally. This tribute takes you all around the world to show its many roles and variants. Superb and unique photographs accompany specific design and production records.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Crowood (December 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840371978
• ISBN-13: 978-1840371970
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,933,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another Profile Book, October 22, 2002

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S. E MCGOWAN "Sam McGowan" (Missouri City, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lockheed C130 Hercules (Hardcover)

This is another airplane profile book, with a lot of pictures and little substance. Why is it that aviation writers have the idea that the people who buy their books can't read, but like to look at pictures? However, if you want a profile book, this is the one to have. It has the best information related to the various models of the airplane. But if you want to find out what C-130s have done, look somewhere else.

Sam McGowan
C-130/Vietnam Veteran, author "The Cave", a novel of the Vietnam War.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Can you judge a book by it's picture captions?, June 23, 2002

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Craig S Landefeld (Riverview, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lockheed C130 Hercules (Hardcover)

After picking up Mr Smith's latest work titled after an airplane that I spent most of my 20yrs in the military on or working with I was pretty excited. I saw pictures inside that I hadn't seen before and a format that I enjoyed.
Then, I started reading the captions under the pictures. Bare in mind I have read a mistake or two in books I liked and they did little to distract from the overall impression of what was published but I kept finding more and more mistakes I felt something was wrong. Please, perhaps Mr Smith was not aware these were mistakes and took face value what someone told him. An example of such a mistake is page 52, which we are told is an aircraft that crashed in 1969 in a paint scheme not used until the late 80's, early 90's. Page 57 is captioned as a JC-130B, when in fact it is a EC-130H.
Perhaps the facts outside the pictures are more acurate but I would invite other aviation enthusiasts to check more closely before purchasing this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Concept, January 13, 2002

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Don Rogers (Valrico, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lockheed C130 Hercules (Hardcover)

This is a very interesting book about an exceptional airplane. So many books have been written about the C-130, both the military and commercial versions, that it's difficult to come up with a new way of doing it. Mr. Smith has done just that. He covers every single variant of the airplane and freely uses the msn (manufacturer's serial number) of particular Hercs; a feature missing from most other books about this airplane. Although there are quite a few errors in the background of some of the many different models and the companies operating the commercial models, a redeeming factor is the many, never before published photos. In a book of this magnitude, it's almost impossible to have it 100% correct. A must for any Herc enthusiast.