A nice little cameo in a blockbuster Hollywood film isn’t a bad 60th anniversary present.
And that’s exactly what the C-130 Hercules got in its sixth decade of being around, with a role in the current box office smash Furious 7 … with a catch.*
The plane — part of the oldest continuously produced family of military planes in history — was “hired” by film producers to fly five cars 12,000 feet high and parachute them out the back for a daring high-altitude stunt.
Lockheed Martin designed the aircraft in the 1950s, and has been manufacturing them longer than famous superstar planes like the B-52 bomber and the U2 spy jet.
* – Okay, here’s the catch. In the film, they make it seem like another plane — the C-17 Globemaster — flies the cars and let’s them parachute out. However, only a Hercules was used to pull it off.
Check it out in the video above.