[Avionics Magazine 06-22-2016] In a ceremony yesterday at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics site, Lockheed Martin celebrated the groundbreaking of the Hercules Training Center (HTC), a facility slated to open in 2018. The HTC will train the next generation of air mobility pilots and crews for the C-130J airlifter and LM-100J commercial freighter.
From l to r: George Shultz, vice president of Air Mobility & Maritime Missions, and Sandy Samuel, vice president, Training Simulation Solutions, break ground for the new Hercules Training Center at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Georgia, facility. Photo: Lockheed Martin.
The HTC will include classroom space, training devices and a new, reconfigurable C-130J/LM-100J full mission simulator.