Teeteringhead, 007 + certainly recovered that way in one of the Connery films (Thunderball?) - but was it a B-17 rather than a Herc? (Just when you want a Bond season, suddenly there isn't one!)
Remember watching an HC-130 demonstrating the system at Miildenhall - 1979? They also dropped a Ford Anglia several thousand feet from a HH-53!