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I hope I'm not too late!!!!! Ken Maybe this should be posted in the HUMOR section
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Is there any one out there that was stationed at Ardmore Air Force Base of Ardmore, Oklahoma? It closed in 1959. I was there from 1955 to 1959. Snowyday
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Well the law of primacy is really biting my butt. The first thing I had ever towed were your basic 707-300 awacs type airplane. Waaaal now mamma done and made me buy her a big trailer last year and its killing me to back the thing, I keep turning the wrong way - one too few pivot points keeps screwing me up!!! Some day maybe I will get it figured out - but probably not:mad: (just thought I would throw that out on a boring night) But at least I got to buy a truck to pull it with:D Dan
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Hey you Eglin and Hurlburt guys, I'm really out of touch now with what goes on down there. What unit has moved it that is lobbing arty every night, sounds just SW of my house here in Krestucky and its not gunships or fighters, most times it will be multiple impacts and most of them sound like 105 or larger and it goes on for three or four hours a night almost constant (do they still use 155mm?), but some could be 80 or 120mm mortars, but whatever it is they sure are blowing a bunch of stuff up - god I love it:D But just curious on who or what is happening. Dan
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B-25 Stuff
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I just inherited some of my Father-in-laws books on the B-25. Got an Allison operators manual, A pilots information file and his tec manual. I knew he was on Guam durning WW11 and was an aircraft mechanic, but we never talked much about it. I think he got out about 1945, the year me and his oldest daughter were born. Yep I got the little sister born in 1947. He passed away 25 years ago. His wife kept this stuff since his death and she passed away on Easter Sunday. I was happy to get these books.
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I only worked on the B-52H for about 7 months at KI Sawyer AFB, MI -- a very impressive airplane! Here's a clip of 120 TF-33P-3 engines rolling down the runway @ Minot. Don R. http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4632948
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Okay guys, what are the most spectacular bad bombs (airdrops from hell) you have either had a hand in or personally know of. I put it in OT because there are folks here that have dropped stuff in planes other than the Herk. I think the most spectacular one I personally know of was at Rhine Main in 1989. I think (ugh) Duke Bender was the AC, it was a triple heavy LAPES at Giebelstadt. For those not conversant with LAPES, a triple heavy is three pallets tied together and the Herk poops them out all at the same time, all the while the pilot is trying to maintain aircraft control with the wheels three or four feet off the ground. Weights of the triple heavy (training lo…
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Even Santa needs help
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Negra Modello Especial tastes almost like San Miguel. Just missing a bit of the formaldhyde bouquet. That is all.
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To all of you on the board belated Merry Christmas, Hannaka, Qwanza, and New Year wishes from the House of Gizzard. My computer took some kind of fit,around December 14, probably associated with our lousy power service in this area,and I have been totally unconnected. I am now functioning on an old laptop borrowed from my daughter. This past year had some real bumps in it for me, but I also gained a bunch of new brothers, on this site. What a great honor for me and to spend such a great time with the 316th guys last summer, well I can't describe that at all. My wife is having surgery on her foot tomorrow, a very painful procedure at that. She will be pretty muc…
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It so good that all the siera clubbers and tree huggers were sucessful in returning large numbers of wolves to the wild. They are decimating the game population faster than jimmy joe billy bob with a spotlight and a shotgun. Be afraid, be very afraid:eek:
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/01/obama-to-make-statment-tonight-subject-unknown/
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Here at the city I work at have a corba helicopter on display at our vet. park. Our problem is with birds and the bird crap. We have tried every thing. What are they doing with the C-130 displays? I know it don't take long for bird crap to destroy a A/C.
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There are 3 birds that have no rectum, therefore they are not etable. I know some of you learned this in survival school. Which birds are they? I think Vulture is one of them. I could be rong.
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I noticed that I no longer see the site stats which include the birthdays. Is that just me and my machine? Hopefully it is just me! Ken
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Mysterious East Valley farm's lawsuits ground nearly all local hot air balloons. The farms owner is suing the FAA, FDA, and countless others. You will not believe this. http://www.mydesert.com/article/20110130/NEWS01/101300311/Mysterious-east-valley-farm-s-lawsuits-ground-nearly-all-local-hot-air-balloons?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
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Boy he sure hit it on the head here, and this was fifty or so years ago:D http://www.militarybeltfed.com/audio/HOPE.mp3 Dan
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Anyone have any idea which guard units have opened positions up to active duty? Just looking to see what to put on the "dream sheet". Thanks.
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I've been working at cleaning out old files, etc. in the ol' computer and ran across an old email asking if I had copy's of those old DVD's that were floating around a few years ago. I couldn't make out who sent me the request and I don't remember if I ever answered. Yes, I do have copy's of 3 or 4 of those DVD's, albeit in poor condition. If you want a copy please P.M. me and I'll copy it and get it to you. One of them is the one with John Wayne-Anything, Anywhere, Anytime.
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Did C-130 Hercules.net evolve from Spectrumwd.com or a combination of other sites? Just wondering about the timeline, past webmasters, effort to get to the fine resource it is today!
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C-130 Manuals
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Good Evening Gentlemen, I have , on cd, the C, AC-130H, AC-130U , EC-130E, KC-130J Flying Operations Manuals plus every other USAF Aircraft Manual. I don't , however, have a C-130J Manual. Series 11, Flying Operations site seems to have disappeared. Can anybody help me ? Sam.
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Some folks really like Hercules.
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I didn't want to hijack the "Veterans" thread with this, but MTcrewchief sent me an essay written by author James Web, titled "Heroes of the Vietnam Generation". Fascinating read!!!!!! My comment to MTcrewchief was that I certainly never considered myself a "warrior". I remember the times we loading up a platoon (or what ever the Army terminology was) of troops after a couple weeks in the bush and thinking that I was lucky I wasn't one of them. Then feeling bad about those thoughts. There is an irony to this: several months ago I was talking to a Marine Vietnam Vet while at the VA Hospital and he said to me that he thought we (C-130 guys), were the brave ones!!!
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Between May 1965 to Dec 1967 A/C 64-0560 carried 6.4 million lbs of cargo. Mostly in the form of test cargo used for LAPES drops. Will post pictures when I learn to use my new scanner.
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