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    MIGHTY PLANES: HEROIC HERCULES

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    My first airplane ride in the Air Force was out of Dyess in 1966 - we took 63-7880 (it was silver) from Dyess to Sewart to be painted camouflage. Memorable for me - I was sitting on the bottom bunk and I got sick and threw up down the stairs! Got to help the Crew Chief clean it up! I ended up with 3000+ hours on Hercs and loved every minute of it (after the first flight, I only got sick on the low level training missions!) John Conner can probably relate to that - 100+ degrees in the back with drop loads made from creosote logs (lovely smell), 500 feet, 250 knots, lots of turbulence ... yep, great times!!

    Jim, If that would have been on my plane, you would have had to help me clean up my puke also!!!!

    Vietnam pictures

    in General

    Posted

    Just stumbled upon some old Vietnam pictures and posted them into "My Gallery". They are the last 12 or 13 on the page. Unfortunately, I don't recall where most of them were taken.

    Chris,

    Thanks for the new entries in your gallery. The one/ones that look the most familiar to me is with the helicopters and the fuel lines & bladders ! It looks like Qui Nhon to me! Maybe the same place where I took the C-123 pics in my gallery!!

    Keep digging, maybe you will find some more!!

    Your buddy,

    Ken

    MIGHTY PLANES: HEROIC HERCULES

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    I remember working on 56-475 at Naha for several months after I got there and kept thinking man I'd like to go for a ride on one of those things. I started by asking if I could go with my plane on a check ride after it came out of phase dock. A FCF they called it. Boy, did I get a ride!!! They asked me to get on a headset and climb up on on the ramp and let them know when the relief valve opened etc. It all worked out and I was hooked!! I volunteered/begged to go on every taxi check, etc. from then on!!

    The rest is history.

    Ken

    RC 130

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Naw, he thinks they ought to be SILVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't know what the poor man's hang up is!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

    Giz

    Giz,

    You have to remember Chris was in the old "brown shoe"corp!!

    Obviously Don was also!!!!!

    Ken

    WYO ANG

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    Neat story,interesting pictures!! The longer I stay on this forum the more I learn!!

    One question, was that Super Guppy fun to fly on?? Looks kind of scary (lack of a better word) to me! Hell a C-133 scared the crap out of me!!!!

    Ken

    Turning #2 first????

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    The book is titled "Runway Visions" and I do not have it right here in front of me so I can't give you the author, however, he was a C-130 pilot out of CCK and the book is more or less his recollections of his flying activities in and out of Vietnam. I haven't finished reading it yet, but early on he speaks of the engine start procedure and specifically mentions "turning #2 engine" first. Is that a typo? I recall ALWAYS starting #3 engine first. Any ideas out there?

    I am also with Sonny and tinwhistle--In my 33 months on A's and E's, that is the only way I ever witnessed start up!!

    I always thought it had something to do with powering the systems which was done by # 3.

    Of course us crew-chiefs only did what we were told!!

    Right guys?

    C-130 with angled wings?

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I have my doubts. I wonder who wrote the commentary? Pretty easy to type up something like that, and pass it along as fact. But what really strikes me is; upon enlarging the image I believe the vertical line drawn through the aircraft is not exactly plumb. That skews the whole thing. Just thinking out loud....

    Ya, I know (Ken and Paul): I should refrain from thinking......!

    Chris, I can't speak for Paul (aka Giz), but I think you are right on this one! By the way, It was great seeing you again this year!!

    Ken

    Seeing Eye Dog

    in Sonny's Funnies

    Posted

    A blind man is walking down the street with his seeing-eye dog one day. They come to a busy intersection, and the dog, ignoring the high volume of traffic zooming by on the street, leads the blind man right out into the thick of traffic. This is followed by the screech of tires and horns blaring as panicked drivers try desperately not to run the pair down.

    The blind man and the dog finally reach the safety of the sidewalk on the other side of the street, and the blind man pulls a cookie out of his coat pocket, which he offers to the dog. A passerby, having observed the near fatal incident, can't control his amazement and says to the blind man, "Why on earth are you rewarding your dog with a cookie? He nearly got you killed!"

    The blind man turns partially in his direction and replies, "To find out where his head is, so I can kick his ass."

    Damn Sonny, I like this one!!

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