Dan Wilson Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Pretty impressive airshow performance Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APG85 Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 That was an impressive display... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Curious, I thought that the Herc\'s flight manual restriction for banking was 60 degrees. I\'ve seen a could videos when they were surly at 90 degrees. Maybe my old brain is getting senile..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 George, yes the manufacturer says 60 degrees but remember lockheeds data provided to the customer is a recommendation for safe operations, the user can use the aircraft however they like.....but must be willing to accept the consequences. The airplane flies fine in a 90 if the pilot does his job, I have even been to (approx)110 degrees and no problem (another story altogether). For example, the navy allows an exception - see the blue angels herk every show. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagebow Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 Impressive display. On the topic of angle of bank, the J models aircraft monitoring system reports when the aircraft exceeds 60 degrres and also on memory its g load at the time, to allow maintenance to determine if inspections are required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 So your saying it (J model) aint nuthin but a damn spy trying to take the fun out of flying? Man and I didn\'t like the CVR spying on me, I think I would just melt down on the J Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graywolf Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Strange thing - I kept hearing the Blue Angel\'s support aircraft being called \'Fat Albert\'. Always thought Fat Albert was the the nickname for the C5. Later found out they was calling the 130 that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagebow Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Yeah Dan the fact that the aircraft spied on the pilot was something that the old E and H pilots had to adjust to. The aircrafts maintenance computers informed maintenance of things like overspeeds, over banks, heavy landings, stalls and other items that we usually only heard about if it was obvious that it had occured or if the crew had a feeing that they may have done some damage. One good incident i do recall was an overspeed and overbank on one flight which went unreported. It showed up on the download from the aircraft. We approached the crew on whether it actually occured and they denied it. As it also showed them exceeding 2g an inspection was iniated by our engineering officer and as we only had two J\'s at that time it was not a popular move to ground the plane. Our CO enquired as to why, was shown the information and finally the crew admitted to what had occured. From then on, crews became a bit more honest (and careful)in what they had done whilst flying as they knew we\'d see it on our maintenance information. I believe (it was a few years ago so the memory may be a bit hazy)that as long as crews didn\'t exceed 2g over 60 degrees of bank Lockheed said no inspection was required. Greywolf i believe the RAF also call their C-130\'s Fat Alberts. I have heard the term used down here in Oz on the odd occasion as well for our C-130\'s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wysongj Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Very impressive display, I can\'t believe they did it with #1 and #4 feathered! I miss the herc! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 Well I guess something need to keep the pilots honest now that there is no power mad flashlight wielding enlisted skum there make sure everything gets into the forms that needs to be there:woohoo: Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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