Herk price

[Wombat]

Bidding ends thursday at 1100 hours but will probably go a little long as the frenzie gets going. As soon as I find out who and how much I'll post it (that's if someone else doesn't beat me to it).

[Wombat]

The NC-130B was sold to Maurice Skinazi's Airplane Sales International Corp for $183,000.

I believe he wants to use it as a parts source for the EC-130Q he got from GSA at last year's sale.

Now there is just one EC-130Q left but is probably being still kept as a parts source for the NCAR is operating.

[Dan Wilson]

I thought that was the NASA C-130 from Ellington Field Texas. I worked for NASA, Johnson Space Center for 28 years in the Transportation Branch. But I was not on flight statis until after the C-130 was gone. I did load planning and supervised the loading of the Super Guppy until we retired it. JSC acquired a newer Guppy with C-130 engines after I retired in 1992. They still have the lastest Guppy but I understand that they don't have any more work for it as all of the oversized loads for the Space Station have been delivered to the Kennedy Space Center.

Well the "new" super guppy will probably find plenty of work next year after the shuttles are all sold as scrap and they need to start moving stage rockets around the country to fill our commitments in orbit - oops, sorry I was thinking about the United States, not the Union of Obama socialists republics that doesn't believe in space unless acorn gets the contract

Dan