Weasel Pilot Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Just got a C-130B-II dash one and it talks about two of the aircraft have an extendable radome between the gear sponsons. Anyone have a photo of this or a drawing...or even a hazy description? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry myers Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 Dave, This radome was part of the classified gear carried by both the A and B Rivet Victor acft. As such it was operated and maintained by the Security Service personnel that flew in the back of the acft. Because of the classification the acft. flt. and ground crews had little or no knowledge of this equipment. That being said we had one acft. 56-535 with this radome. There are several photos in the gallery of A-II and B-II acft., however, because the radome was between the MLG it can't be seen. If memory serves, seem to recall the -1 stated the acft. could be landed with the radome extended without damage to the radome. This, however, proved to not be the case. We had an incident wherein the radome failed in the extended position inflight. The acft. was forced to land with the radome extended. This resulted in heavy contact with the runway which in turn caused extensive damage to the radome. So much for -1 guidance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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