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Check the prop fluid and brush blocks every 15 days. Or if you have a certain Pro Super, do 15 days 14 days early. Like Lkuest said, some situations you check it more often, usually when on the road a while, or the plane has been idle for a length of time.

Been asking that myself for a few years. Always wondered why it wasn't 1C-130H3-1. I'm guessing there's something in the numbering of TO's that they can't use a number there, they picked K since the brits were already using it. Odd's are I doubt we'd come out with a K-Model after them.

Any ideas on how long to make her airworthy again?

Maybe now she can get the attention she deserves and no one can steal any more parts off her.

If you need any parts, I can look around at depot and see if I can get some stuff sent to you. What kind of training aids are you looking for exactly?

My buddy said check the amplifier and change out with known good comm cords. The only thing he can think of other than those are bad wires somewhere.

We had a Wombat with a similar problem, the refuel lights would not turn off, even with breakers pulled. Someone used bad wiring on the FE's interphone box and the lights were picking up power from the wires. Maybe there's some bad wires around where all three boxes head back to the rest of the system that is causing it. When you transmit, it's enough power to override the bleed through. Not sure where it could be, but that's my best guess. I'll talk to my buddy tonight, he's a Comm Nav guru.

Looks like fun stuff. I miss having an old house like that to play with. Are you guys living there during the restore?

Actually, down here in middle Georgia, turn signals are optional.

Dude, where did the fenders go? I can't see them. We have stuff like that up here in Warner Robins all the time. I saw a Mustang a few months ago with a 4x4 badge on the back.

Tiny, I hate to say it, but your plane appears to be missing some tires.

I know that there are two seperate wing boxes. Apparently there's an upgraded box and a J specific box. Pretty much all I know on the topic.

According to my book of many things, the ramp from Ramp station 0 to Station 10 lock is 119.9 Inches. It's probably another foot past there. I would check at work tonight, but the ramp is still in backshop. I'll get into some more books or measure the opening if I can get a chance tonight.

That's what a scrounge bag is for. I've used a pen with a couple small washers on the string with it a few times.

Couldn't figure out which forum to put this in, so I clicked a random button and hit post. I'm curious about the governing regulations for AF Quality Assurance. Been wanting to look them up for a while.

Wow, B's to J's. Little bit of a culture shock there.

Looks good, beautiful job. Though the Crew Chief in me noticed the props aren't tee'd.

Stupid question, how does it work? I've typed in a few tails and nothing came up.

They actually have several Herks in Top Gear. I forgot which episode, but they have a car their testing delivered by a Herc. They have a real close relationship with the RAF.

Where are they gonna put her? I saw the F-86 last time I was home, very nice. I remember her sitting in 51 for the entire time I was there.

My buddy in A$$krakistan sent me this, figured it might get a chuckle or two in the 130 world. THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different...... Two Different Versions.... .............. Two Different Morals _____ OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself! _____ MODERN VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.†Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper. The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Thanks to Facebook, damn near every woman in my life is now mad at me.....but it is so worth it. Great one.

Sounds like an excuse my wife would use.

FYI, I am plagiarizing the hell out of that one.

According to the TO, it's supposed to be filled with a sanitizing chemical for use. Never really payed much attention to that though. Though I did learn the importance of double bagging.