{"id":79,"date":"2016-01-06T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-02-17T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:17:39","slug":"france-buy-4-lockheed-martin-c-130-transport-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"France to buy 4 Lockheed Martin C-130 transport aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment\">France has confirmed that it intends to purchase 4 new Lockheed Martin C-130 Super Hercules transport aircraft. This decision means that the French are bypassing the troubled Airbus A400M transport. This points to\u00a0trouble for the Airbus transport, as France is a major\u00a0stakeholder in Airbus, and home to its headquarters just outside of Toulouse. The\u00a0Airbus A400M Atlas was planned by Airbus to be\u00a0a strategic transport aircraft to\u00a0replace\u00a0the older\u00a0designed Lockheed Martin C-130\/C-160, and the Boeing C-17 transport, which\u00a0was recently discontinued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/c130-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"c130\" width=\"629\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/c130-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/c130-768x261.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/c130-1024x349.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/c130.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has confirmed that it intends to purchase 4 new Lockheed Martin C-130 Super Hercules transport aircraft. This decision means that the French are bypassing the troubled Airbus A400M transport. This points to\u00a0trouble for the Airbus transport, as France is a major\u00a0stakeholder in Airbus, and home to its headquarters just outside of Toulouse. The\u00a0Airbus A400M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}