donwon

We had a few A1C,s E-4 come to Sewart from Dover that were on the C-133. They crosstrained to the 130. Some seemed to be pretty good people while others were but holes. They came to Sewart while we went to SEA.

Sunday morning and I am still haveing problems. I havn't been able to access the site in several days. Don

In 67 I got a job at Donaldson Center which was an AFB till about 61 or so. One evening after I got home I thought I heard the faint sounds of the engines running. I knew then as well as I know now that I couldn't hear anything from there as it was 40 miles away. The next morning when I went to work I found out that they had done an engine run the evening before. I had even told my wife when I thought heard it. Funny how the mind can play tricks on a person. LTV Electrosystems was trying to get an IRAN contract on the Herks. It didn't happen. They only got 2.

There was a store on a ridge in the approch path to the runway at Sewart. Rumor has it that there were tire marks from a Herky on the roof of that store. I don't remember if I ever saw them or not. I have a picture of them in my mind. Can anyone confirm this?

Yes I did sleep on the Herk. At Danang even. I got some orders where I went in country with you for 24 days from Naha. edevers. Did you by any chance keep any of those old orders? Don Everyone but me were in the 35th TCS and I was in the 61 st oms at the time. 15 Feb 66. I am the last name on the back page.

The only beds I knew about was the Strecher above the pax seats right behind the 245 on the right side of the cargo compartment. I put a skeeter net over it and used it lots. I even used some empty pallets and tied myself to them so I wouldn't float away. Not long before I got out I think they started makeing the Pax use the back of the C/C and the cargo was up front. Something about if we crashed the cargo wouldn't hit the passengers???

Our news teams from the upstate channel 4 and channel 7 have been going to Charlestown and flying with the C-17,s to Haiti.

I chnged a few on the A,s with a cherry picker. The driver brought it out and said he didn't go up in it. He showed me how to use it and I went up and changed the light. We had a latter on the A,s but didn't use it on top of the plane. I don't remember where it was stowed.

I have seen them but not in the last 40 years.

Why not feather the engine when the low oil light came on and head back to home base? Unless you are headed for Bangkok!

I was at Naha when the motocross track was being built. Well I was suppose to be stationed there but I was mostly gone. I was told that while building the motocross track there was a small Japineese hanger found with a fighter plane inside. I never saw either one. The day I got to Kadina and was on a military bus to Naha the news on the radio said that a hospital under one of the big guns had been found and there were some skelitons found on cots. Where the Motocross was built or close to it were some caves where the Ryukins kept the bones of their Ancestors. Once a year they would go into the caves and clean the bones. At least that is what I was told by the locals. I was in the 315th barricks and I could look down from the big gun that was never fired at the american forces and could see my barricks. I was told it was test fired one time to make sure it worked. Somewhere I have a very few pictures but don't have a clue as to where they are. I did enjoy looking at those pictures. One thing I don't remember is the step outside the jump door. I went on quite a few training drops to Ft. Campbell and never saw them, and I don't remember haveing to stow them anywhere on the plane. I was assigned to Naha from June 65 till Feb 66.

Whe I was at Sewart 63-65 and on 56-468, it flew when Tsgt Pappy Hayse said it would. He was CC on it while I was a wiper on it. Anyone know what ever happened to him. He would put a red-x on the forms in a heartbeat if one of the flight crew so much as looked at crosseyed.

Congrats on finding it and I wish you a speedy recovery.

http://www.meredithprice.com/articles/rossman.html This person I assume was flying the plane.

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/101-200/walk125_B-25/walk125.htm This site has another story on the crash.

I know this is off topic but... Dan I found a scrap of info on Google about that B-25 near where I live and watched as it was brought to the shore. "Rossman, now 81 years old, was involved in five B-25 crashes and emergency landings during World War II. The first one, on June 6, 1944 (D-Day in Europe), was in South Carolina during a flight practicing single engine procedures. "The instructor pilot decided that we should also practice combat type low-level flying," explains Rossman. "Flying over Lake Greenwood, South Carolina, we got too low and the props touched the water. We had to ditch the airplane and it took 24 stitches to close the rip in my chin when the seat belt opened." Rossman was allowed to continue with his training after a reprimand and a fine. He signed an I.O.U. for the lost B-25 and kept flying."

Dan, the one I am talking of was about 60 miles north of Lake Murry. In Greenwood County. The one you are talking about is interesting.

A WWII bummer crashed in Lake Greenwood S.C. right before the end of the war. A Navy Reserve Dive Team spent 2 weeks a year for 2 years getting it ready to bring up. It was one of the 2 engine planes. I think it was in 84 when they brought it up and sent it somewhere to be restored. I havn't heard much about it in the last 20 years. The day they brought it up I was there watching with my then 4 Y/O daughter.

Was that Luke AFB before Pheonex grew up around it?

That is what we called them also. Skate wheel rollers. I think some were bolted to the floor up to the front of the main wheel wells. Passangers sat in the front part of the cargo compartment. I also heard that later on with the Dual rails the cargo was moved forward and passangers sat to the rear.

56-468 was the first C-130A I was assigned to at Sewart in Sept 1963. TSGT Pappy Hayes was the C/C and Red Hutchens Was on it also. I heard it ran off the end of the runway at Ft. Campbell in 86. I don't know of a 55-0468 but that don't mean there wasn't. It might of been the 55-468 I was on and CRS.

I was at Sewart when one of the doors came open and A2C Gary Back got sucked out and fell to the ground. There were steel plates placed oner the latches on the bottom of the doors so they couldn't be opened. As I recall they were operated by a hydraulic hand pump only.

Wysocki was over "D" section all "A" models when I was there Sept.63 till June 65.

In August of 66 this plane was at Naha. I was working it on swing shift when we were transfurred from 51st OMS to the 21st TCS. I don't remember if it was a Bat Plane. I got out in Nov. 66. Been 43 years and 4 days since I got out. Special Order A-1521 18 Aug 1966.

Where did the FE,s and FM,s get the starter and generator plates we had to install when the starter or generator went out in a remote place whilst we were TDY? They would always come walking around the plane with one in hand and say we got to put this on. Never had to put one on for a hudraulic pump.