bobdaley Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Casey has a picture of the week this week, of a Herk with the name The Cheater over the crew door. My guess an A model flare ship?? Anyone know which Herk this is? Thanks Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Dont know but that guy in the front right is flashing gang sign! Better Watch out:blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well, there\'s no number painted on the front end....and it looks like ECM antennas (ALR-46?) betweem the nose radome and the center windshield....and another ECM antenna on the forward nose gear door (System 55?). Might be a Talon 1, but if so, it would be before the installation of UARRSI (refuelling)....the VHF antenna above the cockpit was relocated for UARRSI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrkaegi Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Is the Crew chief name J.Supplla over in crew door.Then it was 56-0533. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmat Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 It is probably one of the later Blind Bat C-130As modified with some systems seen on AC-130As. Similar C-130As are 56-0508 and 56-0023, both noted with red YD tail codes. They were later modified to AC-130As. Not seen in the photo is the bathtub ventral antenna and the antenna under the fuselage tail. The photo can be identified as a C-130A model because; 1. It appears to have the forward fuselage cargo door. 2. The nose profile is not curved but comes to an angle where the nose radome joins the forward cockpit area. Hope that this is of some use. Best wishes, Grant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 There was no 56-0023? Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRSmith Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 That definitely looks like one of the old blind bat acft and like Grant said if it is Suppla\'s acft it would have been 533. Smitty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Wilson Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 gmat wrote: The photo can be identified as a C-130A model because; 1. It appears to have the forward fuselage cargo door. That in of itself does not necessarily mean an A model. Early E models had the forward cargo door as well and by inference I would guess all the B models had it too. Don\'t know about the angle between the radome and flight deck thing though. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrkaegi Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 The 130 is Blind Bat Aircraft, with a fwd cargo door. name Cheater in Ubon on the ramp.But as you know When the aircraft returns to Naha. The name is removed.And Jerry S. Was the C/c it is 0533. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Farrar Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 All As, Bs and early Es (62s) had forward cargo doors.That picture dates prior to late 70s because the crew were wearing K2B flight suits rather than Nomex. Most of us trash haulers in the late 60s wore combat fatigues or K2Bs. May not help, but by late 70 we in PACAF had to wear Nomex. Also notice the web holsters, Most of us had holsters made up in country. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Sonny Cook was crew chief on 533 for awhile. Does the flight deck ladder in the picture look like an A model? Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Looks like the pogo stick with the mason jar is visable and appears to be no TO cabinet. Also note the nose wheel. I would bet it is an\"A.\" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 She sure looks like a Blindbat \"A\" to me. If this is 533 she sure looks different from when I crewed her in \'67-\'68. She still had the camoflague paint with a black bottom then. Called her \"Sonny\'s Honey\" and Russ Saley was my assistant. Don\'t recognize the name of the Crew Chief you all are talking about. PS John Reves, who was a 41st Crew Chief, was the first to have his bird painted all black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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