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for your viewing pleasure. C-130Q N130FF "Tanker 131" c/n [cn]4901[/cn] **************************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************************** [yt]sf-zl6jzOQ4[/yt]
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I just discovered this site and was wondering if there are any of "the guys" around that were stationed at CCK. I was a Loadmaster on the C-130E and was stationed at CCK between Feb 1967 and Jun 1968.
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The Castle Air Museum has N466TM listed on their future projects page: http://www.castleairmuseum.org/c130ahercules It was seen at Atwater last month. Does anyone know when it actually arrived please? Thanks, Andy
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Andy I had not heard about that one. Thank you. Any idea when? Bob
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As pilots, were any of you taught how the prop slipstream affected wing lift? If so, is there so little effect that it is negligible? Does it affect the horizontal stabs more than the wings?
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I have been out 0f the USAF 48 years today. I didn't know when I was well off.
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Can anyone up date us on the H model shuffle? So far I heard that MT ANG has 2 H's from LRF 73-1597 and 74-1671 Mansfield OH ANG has 5 H's from various units 81-0626, 0629 and 630, 82-0054 and 0056 and 83-0488 CT ANG has 3 H's from LRF 74-1664, 1667 and 2134 Dobbins has 3 H's from LRF 92-0551, 0552 and 93-1039 I'm sure there are more. Thanks Bob
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Lockheed introduced a shoulder patch to commemorate the one million flight hours done by J model. Is there any way to get one online?
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There was an article last week about a new J being delivered to 61AS at LRF? Two questions. The article said it was the 9th J for the 61st. I had 5734,36,38,40,45,48,52,56 Is there another one? The article said it was the final J for the 61st. That seems unusual, most squadrons now seem to have a UE of 14? Anyone help? Thanks Bob
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Anyone have any pix of the floods at St Joe, particularly pix of the acft sitting on the ramp with all the water? I've seen some before but have lost track of them. Thanks
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Made the mistake of opening up Google Earth and wasted the AM. Interesting though 37 18 42.36N 76 38 28.73W Camp Peary Spook Base Should be 57-0519 37 16 43.06N 76 36 39.63W Cheatham Annex Naval Supply Base Should be 57-0483 36 06 07.61N 76 19 33.76W Harvey Point another Spook Base Don’t know, seems like there is always a Herk there but it may be active. Bob
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]4449[/ATTACH] I was ask in a PM if I had one or not.
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I have tried contacting Jansen by e mail with no luck and haven't seen him on the site in awhile. Has anyone heard from him? Are you out there Jansen? Thanks Bob
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Just got a report from Andy Marden on the Ecuadorean AF Ecuador got 4 ex USAF B models. None of them are flying. Three were left behind at the old Quito airport. One went to the new airport and is parked looking derelict. FAE 894 ex USAF 57-0525 Lock 3501 moved to the new airport. FAE 897 ex USAF 61-2645 Lock 3683 is in the AF Museum at the old Quito airport. Andy found that at least most of us had misidentified 895 and 896. They are both on the ramp at old Quito. One clearly identified as 895 was unable to be identified. All along we thought it was ex USAF 57-0529 Lock 3505. But 895 was sitting next to 57-0529, still identifiable from its old USAF paint scheme.…
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Italian C-130 crashes, 5 dead The Associated Press Posted : Monday Nov 23, 2009 17:00:30 EST ROME — An Italian air force transport plane crashed onto train tracks near a military airport in the Tuscan city of Pisa on Monday and burst into flames, killing its five-member crew, officials said. Air force Col. Mauro Gabetta said the C-130 was on a training flight and was approaching the airport when it suddenly veered away and then crashed. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The Pisa fire department said the plane crashed onto railway tracks, setting afire electrical wires. No train was in the area at the time. Source: http://www.airforcetimes…
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Have been trying to find C-130 decals for over a year now. Was able to "score 3" from my old unit at a recent retirement. One of my "Reservist", now ART for many years now was able to get them made and sent to me! I placed them on the back window of my topper installed on my '13 Toyota Tundra. Enjoy, Rex.
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Hi all, Been a while since I last posted on here but can anyone confirm if WC-130H 65-0984 is with the KY ANG please? Have seen a report of it flying with the 165th in December of 2012 but I can't find any images of it wearing KY ANG markings. In fact I can't find any images of 65-0984 after 2011! Thanks, Koen
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Hi All, Tried to e mail Doughy Baker but lost his address. Gerke Hofstra just sent me the first pic I have seen of RAF XV180 c/n [cn]4196[/cn]. Bob
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I've been following the thread concerning the "screenplay", finding it very interesting, but another thought came to mind a bit ago. The amount of aircraft knowledge, especially the C-130!, is stunning!!!!!! The number of years of experience here on this forum is equally impressive!!!!!! My personal experience here on the C-130 site is, that, I didn't know that I knew as much as I did about the Herk!!!!!. I didn't know it at the time but NCO's such as Sgt. Ragland, Sgt. Middleton, and Sgt. Geyer did a superior job of "on the job training" for this silly farm kid !!!!! They're no longer here, but if they were I owe them a hearty Thank You!!!!!!!
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ABCCC
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Some time ago there was a discussion in this forum concerning the ABCCC birds in Vietnam. Even though I actually assisted in loading the module, both at CCK and at Danang I was told that I was mistaken, that the modules were loaded and hooked up in the States. Just the other day I stumbled upon some old pictures, and low and behold, there is a pic of the ABCCC mod being loaded. And it ain't at Hickam or anywhere else in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, it's at Danang. I'll see if I can upload the pic to this post. If not it can be viewed in "My Gallery".
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Bill passed away Sept. 30, 2014 following a cardiac procedure at Sacred Heart RiverBend Hospital in Eugene, OR. A Celebration of Life is being held Oct. 1( today ) in Springfield, OR.
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I got a good update on SAAF Herks this weekend from Paul Zethof. I edited it so it would fit.If anyone has more knowledge of the SAAF Herks, would appreciate the info. Especially the whereabouts of 405, or the fates of 410 and 412. Thanks Bob Dear friends: Last weekend I visited the show at Waterkloof, South Africa. There was one C130J-30 from Ramstein and C130B 402 was operating out of Swartkop, we overflew Swartkop but did not see any other C130's over there, no other Herks at Waterkloof, just the stored ones. I was told that 5 are still operational. 405 was flying some months ago. Have attached some pics form 3 stored C130's, 404, 407 and 411 , no sign of 41…
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Hi I saw a couple of pictures of a herk or herks at the CIA base at Harvey Point NC. One was on Google Earth At 36 06 07.67N 76-19 33.57W pic dated 3/9/2013. The other was on Bing Maps a similar Herk a little NW of the google map position in front of the hangar. Wondering if they are TDY or if the CIA owns a few herks there? Bob
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Fire Fight The row of burning houses looked like a war zone, Lt. Col. Luke Thompson thought as he flew his C-130 low over the Possum Kingdom blaze and dropped thousands of gallons of retardant in the path of the flames. He’d never seen anything like it in 15 years of fighting wildfires. “We were all stunned from seeing the devastation,†says Thompson, chief of aerial firefighting for the 302nd Airlift Wing and a veteran of five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. But that 2011 Texas blaze was merely a taste of fires to come. The next two summers, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve C-130 tankers battled to save homes near Colorado Springs from equally destr…
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