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Table of Contents VOL. 26, NO. 1 January - March 1999 Service News Table of Contents A SERVICE PUBLICATION OF LOCKHEED MARTIN AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS SUPPORT COMPANY LOCKHEED MARTIN Service News Customer Operations and Support A SERVICE PUBLICATION OF hrough the years, one of the hallmarks of Lockheed Martin’s continued suc- LOCKHEED MARTIN AERONAUTICAL cess has been our outstanding relationship with you, our customer. In an SYSTEMS SUPPORT COMPANY T effort to refocus our attention, our Product Support organization is now Editor Customer Operations and Support. Traditionally, Product Support has consist- Charles E. Wright, II ed of Field Service, spare parts, manuals, etc. with the focus primarily on the E-mail: [email protected] equipment. The new organization, while still offering the previously mentioned Telephone: 770-431-6544 products and services, will focus on the customers and the things that are impor- Facsimile: 770-431-6556 tant to them. We want to provide complete cradle to grave support for our prod- Vol. 26, No. 1 January - March 1999 ucts, including full Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) if desired. Our goal is to be a one-stop shop - the overall programatic source for C-130J, airlift, F-22, CONTENTS and our other products. We will accomplish this by using the most economical sources within Lockheed Martin and externally while maintaining oversight to 2 Focal Point ensure the highest quality. Terry A. Graham Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer John Gaffney, who has so ably led Product Support in the past, recently announced his plans to 3 Low Power Color Radar retire. As we looked for someone to lead this new Lyle H. Schaefer organization, we knew that it was imperative to Chief Experimental Test Pilot apply the best talent possible to this opportunity. Bill 8 Hercules Operators Conference Bernstein has agreed to take on this exciting new Working Group Summaries task and is now Vice President of Customer Operations and Support. Bill has extensive progra- 11 The C-130J Fuel System and matic experience with both the C-130 and the P-3 as Test Equipment well as an extensive Product Support background. David R. Ramos Terry A. Graham Field Service Representative As our customer, you can expect to see improved response times to your 14 U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 inquiries and more comprehensive solutions to your problems. We want to Engine Conversion understand any problems you may encounter and work with you to find the best CWO3 Alan J. Larkin solution. We want to help you keep your aircraft performing your mission ARSC Elizabeth City, NC requirements by providing broader, more integrated customer support. We firmly believe that our relationship with you is the key to our continued long Just a Reminder... term success, and we are committed to making that relationship the best that it can be. Contact information for the Hercules Sincerely, Support Center is as follows: E:mail: [email protected] Telephone: 770-431-6569 Terry A. Graham Facsimile: 770-431-6556 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Front Cover: The C-130J demonstrates a maximum effort take-off at the 1998 LOCKHEED MARTIN AERONAUTICAL Farnborough Air Show. SYSTEMS SUPPORT COMPANY Back Cover: The C-130J flies against the backdrop of the beautiful English countryside. Service News is published by Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Support Company, a sub- PRESIDENT sidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation. The information contained in this issue is considered to J. L. GAFFNEY be accurate and authoritative; it should not be assumed, however, that this material has received approval from any governmental agency or military service unless specifically noted. This publi- FIELD SUPPORT cation is intended for planning purposes only, and must not be construed as authority for making J. D. ADAMS changes on aircraft or equipment, or as superseding any established operational or maintenance AIRLIFT FIELD SERVICE procedures or policies. F. D. GREENE Copyright 1999, Lockheed Martin Corporation. Written permission must be obtained from Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Support Company before republishing any material in this periodical. Address all communications to Editor, Service News, Lockheed HERCULES SUPPORT Martin Aeronautical Systems Support Company, 2251 Lake Park Drive, Smyrna, GA 30080-7605. Telephone 770-431-6544; T. J. ZEMBIK Facsimile 770-431-6556. Internet e-mail may be sent to [email protected]. Front Cover Next Page Low Power Color by Lyle H. Schaefer, adar R Chief Experimental Test Pilot s long as aviators have taken to the air in their tinued to expand and improve its capabilities through flying machines, they have wanted to extend the infusion of digital technology. Athe capability of the naked eye to view the world around them. Whether because of darkness, In order to capitalize on the current radar technolo- weather, or distances beyond the visual range, the limi- gy and enhance overall Hercules mission effectiveness, tations placed on the aviator to utilize the airplane safe- Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse jointly took on the ly and effectively have been linked to his ability to task of developing a digital, low power, multimode develop a situational awareness of the environment out- color radar for the C-130. The requirements for the new side the machine. This capability has become an essen- radar were tough, but achieving the goals would result tial element of any airplane whose mission success as in a big payoff to the end user. Lockheed Martin tasked an airborne weapons system is dependent on its ability Westinghouse to develop a radar that possessed many to operate in an all-weather environment. innovative characteristics, including those shown in the box at the bottom of the page. Over the years, airborne radar has been the most effective sensor for bridging the gap between the naked As a pilot who conducted all the Lockheed Martin eye and the external world. It is true flight tests on the new radar, I can per- that radar has tactical limitations, Required Features of LPCR sonally testify that Westinghouse such as its vulnerability to jamming was able to accomplish every task and its overt radiation characteris- An order of magnitude more reliable than asked of them in record time, and tics, but no other sensor has been the former C-130 tactical radars they have produced an absolutely able to provide the breadth of capa- superior product. When combined Achieve the required performance but still with the Head Down Display on the bilities as has radar. However, great pose no hazard to ground personnel in progress has been made in the devel- the vicinity of the radome C-130J or the liquid crystal display opment of other sensors such as on the C-130H, crews flying this Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR), Be fully integrated with the aircraft new radar will take a back seat to no Low Light Level Television navigation system one. Not only was the new radar (LLLTV), and Night Vision Goggles designed to be retrofittable, it was (NVG). Unfortunately, as effective Include a number of different operating also developed with growth capabil- modes - some so innovative that they had ity in mind. Using the modular as these other sensors have become never before seen tactical applications on for specialized applications, they still a military airplane building block approach, there is cannot do what radar does because room for insertion of added capabil- they all possess some significant all- Have complete end-to-end Built-In-Test ity. The first C-130 to receive the weather limitations. Radar has con- capability new radar from the factory was Lockheed Martin SERVICE NEWS V26N1 3 Table of Contents Previous Next Page Serial Number 5310, a fiscal year 1992 C-130H air- Station Keeping Equipment (SKE) and Flight Plan. craft. Later C-130H aircraft introduced a Traffic Alert Next, items unique to the different installations will be and Collision Avoidance (TCAS) overlay capability discussed including user interfaces. Finally, informa- integrated with the Mode S IFF. The radar was also tion concerning retrofit kits will be presented. integrated into the C-130J. The features of the radar can best be described by So what does the Low Power Color Radar (LPCR) how they are utilized by the air crew. There are seven do for Hercules crews? Known initially only as the different modes as well as three display functions called LPCR, it received the designation of the AN/APN-241 “overlays.” The modes are Map (3), Weather, when it was officially installed in the first military Windshear, Beacon, and Skin Paint. The display func- C-130H. First of all, this is truly a multimode radar, tions are Flight Plan, Station Keeping Equipment, and possessing both tactical and air navigation modes with TCAS. many user specified features that make it particularly functional for the varied missions of the Hercules. As Map. There are three different ground mapping modes: stated earlier, Lockheed Martin began installing the monopulse ground mapping (MGM), doppler beam AN/APN-241 on the Hercules aircraft with Serial sharpening (DBS), and real beam ground map Number 5310. The basic radar installation on the (RBGM). MGM uses monopulse processing to C-130H and the C-130J is the same, however, the user improve mapping resolution in azimuth. The DBS interface is vastly different, both for the pilots and for mode uses doppler processing to generate a map with the maintainers. In the following paragraphs, the significantly better azimuth resolution than MGM. The modes of operation and display functions will be dis- RBGM is provided during degraded operations when cussed as they are implemented on the C-130H. The incomplete stabilization data is being received in the radar modes are common to the C-130H and the radar from the Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) or the C-130J, although the display implementation and infor- Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial mation is quite different in some areas, particularly Navigation System (EGI).
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