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C-130 Center-Wing Section Fatigue Test

Members of the 179th Airlift Wing Maintenance Group heat the four turbo prop engines of a C-130H Hercules in the cold, early morning Dec. 21, 2016, on the 179th AW flightline in Mansfield, Ohio, as part of daily winter operations. The 179th AW is always on a mission to be the first choice to respond to state and federal missions with a trusted team of Airmen.

old aircraft wing on the back of a trailer being brought into a garage

MERC tested redesigned structural components of the C-130 aircraft center wing. The redesigned center wing structural components were subjected to both fatigue loading under flight load spectra and static testing beyond the design ultimate load of the structure.

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