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    T.O. needed

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    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!

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    HC-130J

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Holy Smokes! The HC-144A gang must have bubble envy!

    Going in all the "Js?" Very different from the old search doors from the "B" model days.

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

    For the Com/Nav at Heart

    in C-130 Technical

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    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.

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    Nose Weights.

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    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!

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    Nose Weights.

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    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

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    Stuck MLG tire

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    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...

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    Prescott

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    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!

    Crew Entrance Door

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    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!!!

    AWACS C-130???

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Hey folks...I was assigned to 87-0157 when I was stationed at Edwards from '95-'97. Interesting bird...fun crew-doggin' it!

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

    AWACS C-130???

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Yessir. It was called Project Delphi, acft MDS - EC-130V. That was us Det 4 folks. Chuck Louie was the A/C, Jim Dees the CP, Mike \"Navigadar\" Gaydar was the Nav, & Emmit Miles & Al Schwartz were the scanners. The USCG test mgmt folks were kind of skittish about the 1st flt - made GD string a rope thru tiedown rings fm FS245 to the end of the ramp (hand over hand escape device should the thing terminally nose over - no kidding, they really did) & required us to wear parachutes thru the init stab/ctl cks (1st hr or so of 1st flt). Every thing went just fine. As I recall, we flew 3-4 sorties to complete the aero certs then turned it back over to USCG for systems OT&E. It was all E-2 Hawkeye stuff - radome, consoles, computers, msn equip, et al. Had to be, the didn\'t have funding for new. Heard there was supposed to be about 6 acft total, but a new commandant came on board & wanted more emphasis on boats. Still have the wooden model GD gave to us.

    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!

    Old pictures

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    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

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