BRlang Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 No load from Danang to TSN at the end of a crew day...Minimum fuel....Lets see how high we can get it... I had the best A/C on my crew that ever sat in the pilot seat.....He shall remain nameless however we got up to 36,500 feet with an empty plane and minimum fuel....It was a record at the time. Wondering if anybody beat it in an E Model... This was after take off at Da Nang where he got to 50 feet off the ground, cleaned it up and we were going about 250 knots as we crossed the end of the runway. He yanked the yoke in his lap and did a hard bank to the left and pulled off a wing over.....The tower just said...."Spare 223" that was pretty cool and good night.... We then decided to keep climbing....and climbing and climbing...The last 10,000 feet we just kind of stair stepped up a few hundred feet at a time.....At 36,500 we had about a 15 degree nose up attitude and the plane would barely fly....we were just hanging in the air... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railrunner130 Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 We took an H up to 34K once. It's pretty cold and the airplane groans. Kinda scarey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC10FE Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I know this is pretty hard to believe, but it's true. Flying from Jedda to Dhahran in a brand new 1974 H-model, we got almost to 44,000 feet when a turbine overheat light came on. I must've gulped down a liter of LOX. I can't remember the AC's name, but, after getting out, he built a cement boat and sailed it to Hawaii. Don R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank t Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 hi folks, i believe the marines had an f model up too 44k for a halo jump back in the late 60's. I had a 2 year old T model up to 32 k on a flight from elmendorf direct to navy brunswick with a kick ass tailwind we were grounding just under 400 kts. the canadian controlers asked us a couple of times what we were flying. good flight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPTestFE Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Beats my 31K in an old beat-up E model here in the states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I lost, I never made it above 27,000. Somewhere in my files I have the flight orders for the B model at El Centro that drop a bunch of HALO troopers at 44.500. I'll try to dig it up. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve haigler Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Did an A model to 32K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Herk Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 33,000 in an E-model once... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Hassell Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Hi Guys. While stationed at Hill AFB Utah as an IP at the 1550 ATTW (Rescue Training School) in either the winter of ‘73 or ‘74 we nursed an HC-130H to 40,060’. PRETTY SPECTACULAR VIEW OF MOTHER EARTH FROM THAT ALTITUDE!! Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre623 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Hi Alan, I was a crew chief / expediter (Hotel 2), at Hill in the 1550th at that time. Do you remember the tail number or if it was an H ,P or N model? Best tour of my career there,Twice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectre623 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 OK Alan, just reread your post I see it was an H model not a tanker at that time.We had 65-971,973 and 987 H's bast as I can tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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