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The US Air Force is decommissioning most of the C-130H aircraft due to problems with the propellers

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Air force (USAF) United States derive from the exploitation of most of the aircraft C-130 Hercules, due to problems with the propellers. In their cylinders cracks are detected.

This was reported in the American journal Defense News.

The air mobility command (AMC), the U.S. confirmed that most of the Park is a C-130H United States air force, which at the beginning of the 2022 fiscal year (started in October 2021) consisted of 128 units can't fly. And it is unclear how long it will take to replace all the faulty nodes propellers.

At AMC, said that 116 aircraft C-130H was decommissioned on Tuesday because of fears that their nodes propellers faulty. Checking scheduled for the coming days, will reveal how many of them are damaged.

In a statement to Defense News, the command of the air mobility announced that the team aviation and logistics facility in Warner Robins, Georgia has detected a malfunction in the propeller plane C-130H during the test running its engine. It happened after he passed maintenance. Further inspection showed that two node propellers had the same problem.

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This is the second time in the last three years, when a significant number of C-130H was decommissioned due to problems with the propellers. In February 2019, the U.S. air force for a few weeks stopped using 60 of these aircraft, which at the time accounted for almost a third of the Park. Commanders feared that the propeller blades are released until 1971, was able to crack, so to replace them.

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