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The last of ’em is a C-130 with an entirely new wing, large enough to fit four sizable lift fans. The fans would be driven by high-pressure gas tapped off of the six turbojet engines mounted atop the wings.
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That one looks very expensive to develop.
It’s getting modified so radically by this design concept that they might want to consider starting over with a whole new design rather than basing it on the C-130 at all.
Then you end up with this; though it was closer to the Provider than Hercules in capabilities:
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/ling_xc-142.php
I always wondered where the fuel would go…