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Try this: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/service_news_magazines/V30N02.pdf

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Have your tried these folks: esscoaircraft.com? It'll cost you. How about Google? Senior sends

Like this? Senior sends

The old 2 dash series books, TO 1C-130H-2-2 (or B or E) has info to pull the vertical and horizontal stabs. The newer General Equipment manual (TO 1C-130H-2-00GE-00-1) has that and how to pull the outer wings too. The center wing...just start drillin' and poundin' out rivits, hucks, hilocs, lolocs, nuts and bolts, etc etc... If you can get an engineering drawing or two that might help your cause. Good Luck! Senior Sends

Nope, no money for it. $1 mil per. The 144 boys can have the Bubble Head claim, for now...

If you've got the money, you could get these... Pretty sweet. Senior Sends

The SMP515E lists a harness set P/N 3402462 "required for use on C-130 fuel qty systems". Senior Sends

Is the one prop blade with the different tip paint #1 blade?

Sorry to disappoint. That came out of the bird that lost it's crew door in flight. The repairs required the galley to come out. So.....since you NEVER pass up an oppourtunity for training (and busting on another rate) the sign appeared. Senior sends

In case you REALLY miss it, you can get one of these...

How long have the leading edge ice detection markings been as large as they are now? On our CG aircraft we use 6 inch circles. I don't recall the change that started that... Thanks in advance!

You mentioned the tug...many moons ago we had to pull all four motors off a bird and parked a tug in the plane for ballast. About three weeks later a J.O. was taking a GSE inventory and came up one tug short. All three of us that knew where it was figured he was a bright boy and would find it...he didn't. About a week later we hung the motors back up and backed the tug out...and made sure the J.O. was in the area. That was the kind of mentoring I liked! Ah, the good ole days! Senior Sends

We open up and toss it out the back. Our pump can is not aerodynamic enough to hang off a bomb rack... Nothing we have is deployed externally. Senior Sends

Ballast Assembly P/N 7135074 made up of rack P/N 7135075, weight P/N 7135076, and frame P/N 7135077. This came out of the A-3, 57-10-00, page 15. Little blurb sez,"Local safety office must approve any alternate ballast prior to submission to WR-ALC for approval". That probably rules out using melted down A-10 bullets (depleted uranium)! Have fun Senior Sends

Jaws of Life...Fire dept needed the practice anyway... Check the bearings, there were a bunch of bad bearings in the system for a while...when I get back to work I can sent the good part numbers... Senior sends

I just looked at our #2001, those ladder mounts are still there! Must cost too much to re-engineer them away...

Congratulations Bob! 382 posts! Hmmm, why does that number ring a bell... Senior sends

There are some pics out there with 'interesting' accessories on the white hercs. I'm not sure I'd want to go where they do... But thanks for doin' what you do!

Yep, that's the one. Thanks for pics Vic, those are the same ones I've seen. The scuttlebutt is the same story, almost exactly as WxFE stated... Can't wait to hear "the REST of the story"! Those boys were LUCKY!!!

Anybody ever hear of a crew entrance door "falling off"?

Hey man what ever happened to the "Taco Shack" crew rest module in the back? That thing was sweet!

I was there watching Jeff and crew take our bird up for the first time. Yep, the rope thingie was real. We were kinda pizzed that we couldn't go too. We didn't have the testing expertise that Jeff and his crew did. When we could fly I remember 'firing' the NAV for vectoring us into a big azz Texas sized thunderhead...I caught the Dash-1 as it came by...He asked the pilot if I could 'do that'..Pilot said it was the Coast Guard's plane! The fun came when we flew that thing behind a Chinook for icing tests in Duluth in Feb!

Here\'s another shot. [img size=320]http://www.herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/100_0950.JPG

Well, she made it in today, looked real good in the evening sun. They did a couple of low passes for the base photo shop. I\'ll try and include a shot here. [img size=320]http://www.herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/100_0946.JPG