Beautiful site as C-130-E goes airborne on a hot sunny day at DaNang Airbase in Vietnam - 1972. Notice that the main landing gear already almost fully retracted, and the nose gear in transient with the nose gear doors still open ... copilot hot on the landing gear level. Getting landing gear retracted quickly important on takeoff with heavy loads in order to reduce drag and allow for much improved climb performance. For C-130 tail number followers I think this is 63-811. Typical low wooden airbase structures line the far side of the runway as the photo taken from the main parking ramp.
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