Lockheed Martin LM-100J Does a Loop in its Flying Display at Farnborough Airshow - AIN 

It takes a lot to impress me when I look at flying displays. The flight routine by this Herc driver is very impressive. Nicely done.

Wayne Roberts chief LM test pilot. I'm proud to say I was his flight engineer in VP9 almost 40 years ago. He was this good then!

Absolutely fantastic! I've flown many times on Hercs in the military and they're as incredible as you see in this vid - a fantastic airplane, and many thanks to the designers, builders and pilots and crews, they always brought us home!

Guess I’m from a different generation , and have to beg to differ with people’s comments stating the plane didn’t loop. At time frame 2:00 the big gal loops !

Awesome! I flew the E-model three decades ago, and it never crossed my mind that a Herk could loop! Simply amazing!

Awesome. Absolutely amazing aircraft!

Outstanding performance and airmanship!

Hell Yeah! Proving once again that this is my favorite plane!

Paging Mr. Johnson, Mr. "Tex" Johnson, please come to the red courtesy phone. This sold a lot of 707's for Boeing. Hope it does the same for Lockheed. Awesome flying demo.

That's a great air show! Incredible.

Amazing loop

The pilots have balls of steel

INCREDIBLE!!!!

One of the greatest aircraft ever.

Flew from Ft Lee Virginia to CamRhan Bay, Vietnam in one of these via California, Hawaii, Wake, Guam and Phillipines. Took about 43 hrs. I think. Hard to remember exact numbers from 1966. Glad to see they are still flying and proving their worth!

I was studying the video to see if it was a simulator. No signs of that. Very impressive. The pilot really knew how to showcase the aircrafts capabilities.

Brilliant display!Should get a few orders on the strength of this❤❤😎👍.

Impressive!

incredible

Awesome!

Simply Amazing

Seen the Mighty Herc do a lot of things but this is a first. Most beautiful and versatile plane in the skies.

Amazing to see the old Hercules still going strong after all these years. It's been landed on an aircraft carrier . Landed and taken off in an American football stadium. ..

I had to watch this twice....

...amazing...

An absolutely execelent video.

Amazing aircraft.

Amazing pilot and airplane

Love the Herc!

What a ridiculously capable airplane!!!

Impressive for such a large aircraft.

I love that plane.

awesome i can't believe aircraft and pilot.

That's one powerful ship.

That’s insane.

Pretty amazing.

Kinda want to see two Hercs in a mock dog fight now.

very impressive

Impressive

My grandfather worked on the c130 design team and I'm pretty sure that never thought in a million years it would ever be able to do a loop

Right there, that was something.

Wow!!

wow that was awesome i guess they call her super for a reason my grandfathers favorite in the AF was the 130 and he still likes planes and airshows he would love this video

This is an INCREDIBLE display! I never knew that the "Herky" was that agile, at all!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱

Epic

That's BAD ASSNESS right there! The brass kahoonas for this stunt extend from flight crew all the way back to the drawing board engineer. I would have bet money (and lost!) that that particular plane could not perform such a maneuver. Or those stepped climbs - AWESOME! Thumbs up for posting this, two thumbs up for the stunt.

Man that thing is flying around like it's a miniature remote Remote airplane amazing

Nice!

Who cares if the loop was pretty or not? A loop of any kind in a plane like that is pretty damn incredible imo.

Anything that can Takeoff & Landing Shortly is awesome

wow impressive

The modern day DC-3....! A fantastic tactical aircraft....!

I'm surprised they allowed it at all these days in our Wet Lefty- Liberal England (at least in the North) , but just a fabulous plane and love to see its still a viable buy !

Allmmmmmooostt a real loop. He bailed on it towards the end. 90 degrees off original heading at the end. More like a HUGE a huge barrel role. Everyone inside definitely getting negative g time though. Fun. Glad he didn’t break the wing like that firefighter C130 did a few years back.

Bet the 'Loadie' had fun in the back!

Clucking Bell, mighty herkybird.

Holy shit!!!!!!! Nuff said

Ok... that was like really cool.

Pilot got skills

Incrível !

Wow

LM-100J? Oh, a Herc! Well of course its amazing. Best airframe ever designed.

I can't wait for the next time the Blue Angels are in Spokane. I hope that Fat Albert will add a loop to its routine. That was super cool.

Hello nice video looking to view you next saludos

Now I know what heads my Power Ball lottery dream buy list.

Remember the barrell roll of the RNLAF F-27 Troopship, during which they even shutdown an engine?

I used to jump out of those C-130s, I knew those pilots were holding back. (cue the snicker)

Although it's a modernized civilian version of the C-130.....that was AWESOME seeing one do a loop like that.....next up, they need to try a C-17 Globemaster.....just a thought. Awesome video :)

Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

this needs to come to the southport or blackpool airshow

Excellent. In spite of the politicized commenters on RU-vid, who wrongly portray the super maneouverability displays of the Sukhois and Migs as useless circus stunts, this type of apparently useless display has a significant value. Just like Raptors doing Cobras; Ospreys and Harriers hovering, flying sideways, backwards and bowing to the spectators; and helicopters doing loops, this Hercules displays special abilities that open the door to new possibilities. Not that it will be looping around; but as a gunship it will have excellent agility for a cargo truck. That’s the whole point of all these “crazy” displays: to show possibilities for new capabilities. The loop was a classic loop abandoned at its last 1/4. It entered wings level, topped and dived wings “level” and recovered banking away. Very nice. If you use QuickTime, you can follow it by clicking second by second. This pilot is a true professional who, obviously learned the lessons from the accidents of a B-52 at Fairchild AFB and a Nimrod in a Toronto Air Show. Both, piloted by crowd pleasers, performed low altitude wing-overs, stalled and had no room to recover. I saw the Nimrod perform the stunt twice before the crash. On both occasions, when he reached the top of the maneouvre, his speed was so low that I (as a pilot) experienced the proverbial strong and sickening sensation of my testes sharply and literally raising to my throat. I was scared. This Hercules pilot wisely kept one eye on his speed/angle of attack as can be seen in his smart way of quickly reaching a safe display altitude, by steep climbing and lowering the nose to regain safe speed (zoom climbing). At no point during his display, my “gut indicator” was triggered. It was pure joy! Kudos.

Given the other maneuvers, a barrel roll would have been easy-peasey, and wildly impressive!

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Capt speaking, we will interrupt our (boring) automated flight to make this a little more... fun! So please relax and enjoy the art of hand-flying! Then, looping and also zero-to-negatives G’s came up!.... amazing, tks for posting!

It’s not like that has been done before but that size of plane wow Beyond impressive and I saw a comment that the pilot had balls of steel I think that’s an understatement

Incredible. A 1955 design.

dang dude

Holy shit! Never tried this with the H-version...

Deadly Super Impressive Loop -------> No Doubt Technologies Are Leading Towards Zero Errors. ♥♥♥

Landing gear as belly-side airbrakes? Damn! The loop, too!

Is there an in-cockpit video? surely.

Its like the guy who did a barrel roll in a 707

This isn't a loop, it's a wing over, but as it's almost directly above the camera, it looks like a loop. Still impressive though with at least 120° angle of bank, pilot has balls of steel.

That was just plain scary.

time 1:50

This pilot is good.With my help he could be the best.

Simply Awesome!!! Who would have ever thought an aircraft like the Hercules could actually loop and remain in one piece! Sure it was not carrying anything and it had the minimum amount of fuel necessary to safely preform the flight but WOW! I don’t think that Airbus would ever try that with their A400M, if they did the wings would probably fold. C-130s and LM-100s are the BEST!

WOW!! Old "fat Albert" can still dance around in the skies likes he's a teenager #impressive

And people say Lockheed have built a dog in the F35. These guys know how to build great planes. The Hurcules the best military transport plane since the Dak bar none.

Holy smokes.

Huevos grandes!!

0:30 lucky bird

A stretched out cork screw sideways circle thing is not a loop. A loop has to be wings level, perpendicular to the deck.

First-class aircraft with exceptional peformance characteristics long with a brilliant pilot at the controls....lovely video of a quality American aircraft!!!

The 1st RNZAF C-130H is still flying at the young age of 53.

mans playing GTA V in the titan cargo plane

Wow! What the fuck!!! That’s the real thing!

Wow. This was fantastic. Nicely filmed, too. The hubbub of conversation was a bit irritating given what was going on. What does it take to shut some people up?

It's been known that a C-130 and L-100 equivalent power, mechanically, and structurally can do a loop. But the reason why they were not done is the oil system. It's a scavenge system, which limits negative G's. Once the oil pumps start sucking air, that engine has to be shut down. Does anyone know if Lock-Mart modified the oil system. If they did, was it solely for this demo or all of the L-100J's modified?

Production ended in 1992? Are they starting it back up or why the first time airshow performance 26 years later?

There is a saying among the C130 fraternity. "If you don't have bullets, you gotta to have balls".