casey Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Air Force Reserve Citizen Airmen, assigned to the 910th Airlift Wing's Aerial Spray Maintenance Flight, ready one of the wing's modified C-130H Hercules tactical cargo aircraft for an aerial spray sortie here, March 17, 2015. The sortie over target areas on the nearby Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) was one of 24 sorties, or flights, applying approximately 32,075 gallons of herbicide to more than 1539 acres of ground to eradicate invasive weeds from the bombing ranges. As home of the Department of Defense's (DoD) only large-area fixed wing aerial spray capability and dedicated aerial spray maintenance flight, the 910th's Citizen Airmen are uniquely trained and equipped to complete the task of aiding Air Force pilots using the range and Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) personnel clearing the areas by eliminating the unwanted ground covering weeds which can obscure target sites and Unexploded Ordinance (UXO). View original article: http://www.youngstown.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123443719 View full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC10FE Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Reminds me of the C-123 sprayers at Langley AFB in the early 1960 spraying for mosquitos. Looking back, I imagine they were also training for the Ranch Hand missions in Vietnam.Don R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Podboy Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Business end of Modular Aerial Spray System (MASS) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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