bobgrun

Okay... well, since this turned out as it did, lets get the rumors going. Wrong course for it to be Amelia, isn\'t it? I heard it was a Sasquatch that bailed from a passing UFO that had mechanical trouble during a failed phase shift to another dimension. :cheer:

So it lives on still, that\'s good to hear. From what I\'ve seen only one of the crew of \"plane nappers\" visits the board on any regular basis, so I\'m not sure if we\'ll hear too much more of their exploits. When it landed at McChord, one of the wings had broken so it was sent over to the Fab shop where they were more than willing to lend a hand in repairing it. Which was also a good thing as the poop kinda hit the fan in regards to one Commander calling another Commander to complain about the disappearance. Much more so than any other trophy that C-Branch had aquired over the years. Since only a VERY few Crew Chiefs knew of its existance, let alone where it was at the time, (even most of the flight crew who flew it \"home\" was unaware of their extra cargo) everybody they asked truthfully said they didn\'t have any idea. In fact, MOST of them had never seen it before when it was at Pope as only a DCC going to a briefing would even be over in that area. It was a couple months later when we got a phone call from the Paint shop that our 130 was ready and they were tired of looking at it. The culprits had pretty much forgotten about it for the most part, having moved on to various other forms of mischief. Imagine their surprise when they assembled a tow crew, got the Coleman on the way down there and Victor 5 dropped off a load of guys only to find an empty hanger. With a basic Crew Chief \"WTF?\" we wandered into the office to see what was up, and to everybody\'s surprise there was a nicely repaired, and newly repainted to look like a McChord bird, prize! The best part of the entire thing was Mike McDevitt. He\'d just come over from Pope about 2 weeks prior. He was all too aware of the finger pointing and arguing and threats and such from when it was a hot topic. I can still hear his southern accent doing a wonderful \"Schultz\" impression... \"I see nothing! NOTHING!\" as he wandered right back out the door to the truck. But... of course... this is all just what I\'ve heard... since I have neither the clearance nor the knowledge to confirm or deny information on this topic at this time. Further inquiries should be directed to... ;)

On the wall inside C-branch in the 80\'s we had a beautiful, wall-sized front view mock-up of a gear down 130. If I recall (as, of course I have absolutely NO knowledge to neither confirm nor deny this) the story goes that it was \"borrowed\" from a building at a certain East Coast US 130 base at the end of an ORI or ORE. Anybody know what ever became of it when the Hercs left McChord?

Always a good chuckler! Even if this one was an oldie when the fighter was a new F-106.

Yep! Saba Airport. Been there twice. Beautiful island, nice people all that. But you have to REALLY want to go diving bad to land on that one. My first trip there the pilots had left the cabin curtain open. Gave me a great appreciation for what the C-5 crew that landed and Kwaj must have felt as they finally rolled to a stop. Took me about 45 minutes for a certain part of my body to un-pucker! )

I couldn\'t help but reply to this one. \"Newbie\" is just the wrong term for a 130 forum. Seems to me if you were new we used to call ya a \"jeep\". B)

Been watching them fly over the house for the past few days lining up for thier final approaches. I was pretty surprised how I could pick off that old familliar sound as they flew over head out of all of the S. Cal noises. I guess once you\'ve got it in ya, you never lose it!