Managed to video and photograph this C130 super low through hills in wales during my visit to the Mach Loop summertime of 2021. It's always nice to capture a RAF C-130J Hercules ZH868 from RAF Brize Norton low level, it's such a manoeuvrable aircraft, it's size doesn't affect it going through the hills, of course most of that down to the well trained pilots who fly them. I must say some of the photos I took of it were very nice, some of them you can see at the end of the video.

In the Korean War that started in 1950, World War II such as C-119 Flying Boxcars, C-46 Commandos and C-47 Skytrains. Seeing that the World War II transport platforms were insufficient to meet the battlefield needs of that day, the US Air Force issued a General Operations Need (GOR) statement to Boeing, Douglas, Fairchild, Lockheed, Martin, Chase Aircraft, North American, Northrop and Airlifts companies in 1951. He stated that he needed a transport plane.

This new transport aircraft was required to be able to move from hastily prepared raw runways, to have a capacity of 92 passengers / 72 full-fledged soldiers / 64 paratroopers, to have a minimum flight range of 2,000 km and to continue flying even if one engine stopped.

Lockheed's Model 82 design was accepted from ten different designs submitted by the manufacturers to the US Air Force, and a development contract was signed with the company on July 2, 1951. Built by the Lockheed team led by Willis M. Hawkins and Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, the first prototype YC-130 (serial number #53-3397) made its first test flight on August 23, 1954. Kelly Johnson accompanied this successful flight between Lockheed facilities in California and Edwards Air Base, piloted by Stanley Beltz and Roy Wimmer and lasting 61 minutes, with a P2V Neptune aircraft.