casey Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Just finished this for a member and thought I would share. http://www.herkybirds.com/printviewer/C-130E%20V1%20A/viewer.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbsoto Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Looks Great! Was the 616 Group from Southeast Asia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Looks Great! Was the 616 Group from Southeast Asia? Not sure of the history of the 616th group but it was the group that the 17th at EDF flew under. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbob Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 That plane's last command was AFMC. DIRCM test bed. Half Talon as we called it. Isn't the fuselage now a load trainer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 0500 was at EDF when I got there in '82. The only 64 model, the other 10 were 63 Es. It was re-assigned not all that long after I got to EDF. Got some hours on her. We heard that she had be modded and was flying in Central America doing some, uh, covert stuff, but that was '83 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talons1555 Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I remember that plane well, I was at EDF from 82-85 as a crew chief. I never saw one C-130 that spent so much time in fuel cell, I think we tried to get depot to reseal it but it never happened. I do remember the Crew Chief always took good care of that airplane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Looks awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Great job Casey After mods at Ontario, it ended up at Sheppard to be a ground trainer. It had been messed with so much it was very non standard and Sheppard had it scrapped. The Fuselage ended up in a junk yard in OK. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmac_Project Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 Sad for any herc to be in that condition. Remember the ol girl when Pope gave her to us back in the late 80's. She was all jacked up then, but a young crewchief took her on and gt her in good shape. Then one day the gave her away, and the next time I saw her was in picture getting ready to be scrapped at Sheppard. Engine Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownslow Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 of better days for 0500 during it's Det 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talons1555 Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Dam, what did they do to that airplane? Sure didn't look like that at Elemendorf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownslow Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 We do "stuff" to planes :-) Dam, what did they do to that airplane? Sure didn't look like that at Elemendorf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Hatch Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 Just for grins, I looked up this tail number in my log book and I see that I flew it 3 times while at CCK. 1. 13 Oct 1967: Tuy Hoa-Dak To II-Tuy Hoa-Dak To II-Tuy Hoa-Dak To II-Qui Nhon-Tuy Hoa (7 legs) 2. 12 Dec 1967: CCK-Ping Tung DZ (Drops)-CCK 3. 26 May 1968: Tuy Hoa-Phouc Vinh-Dak To II-Qui Nhon-Phouc Vinh-Dak To II-Phouc Vinh-Dak To II-Tuy Hoa (8 legs) Three days in the life of 64-500. Some of you will recall these destinations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hush Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 In addition to the DIRCM test bed in the late 90's at Eglin (which I flew on), it was also the original Quiet Knight program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffysan Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Sort of. It was the acft used for QK after it was removed from the HTTB. Initial tests were flown on the HTTB by LM Aero's Flying Ops personnel, but that got too expensive. The Big Safari office decided follow-on testing could/should be done by the Det (with lots of help from the Talon community) on 0500. Hate to see her go. Did lots of interesting things with that bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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