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    Viet A

    in C-130 General

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    I was flying on AC 130 A gunships at Karot when this took place we got task to move 9 SVAF C 130A models to Anderson AFB Guam we had 24 hours to get them out of Thialand, went to Clark AFB, PI spent one night then to Anderson AFB, Guam where ram team took them over and did their thing, about 2 months later we took them to depots in the states. The door was replaced at Utopia. As to who or how many fell out is unknown to me I heard several tales but no proof to any of them. My crew drew 56-0500 both trips, was a good plane once we got bleed air leak in # 4 horse collar fixed, and a couple of radios, flew a loose formation using radios in survivial vest to talk to lead.

    We took 500 I beleive to Hays' depot at Brimingham, AL It later went to Tn Air Guard. only been 37 years ago damn how time flys.

    Mike

    Wife vs C-130

    in C-130 General

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    Lived under the airway between Dallas & Texarkana VORTAC, would hear a herky with a prop out of sync. and say something about it to the wife, she got to where she could hear what I was talking about and say ok fuss at the engineer.

    Drank many cups of coffee at Tye truck stop.

    Dyess was originally call Tye Army Air Field.

    Question for the group

    in C-130 Historical

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    Geroge,

    As far as I know there was not any missions in North Vietnam. Laos, SVN and Cambodia was the target areas.

    There was a total of 16 A's and 11 E/H's (The E's where upgraded with the -15 engines and a few other things and called H's).

    converted to AC's. I think there were 3 of each at the school at Hurlbert which got swapped out with depot imputs.

    Loses where 6 A's and 1 E .

    Mike Thompson

    UK C130 Rescue Mission in Libya

    in C-130 General

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    Pulled this off Yahoo

    Mike

    LONDON – British military planes entered Libyan air space to rescue oil workers and others from desert locations Saturday in a daring and secret mission meant to save those unable to flee escalating violence.

    The C-130 Hercules planes, carrying Britons and other nationals, safely landed in Malta after picking up the civilians south of the eastern Libyan port of Benghazi, Defense Secretary Liam Fox said.

    The rescue mission was bold because few planes have been able to fly through Libyan air space. It was not immediately clear if it was a British special forces mission, but the government has not ruled out using the SAS to evacuate Libyan oil fields and rescue trapped Britons.

    The mission apparently took place with great secrecy. Rescued oil worker, Peter Dingle, told the BBC that workers were told to stay quiet.

    "We knew this morning that the military was coming to pick us up, but we weren't allowed to phone home — there were no lines anyway — because when you inform the families it gets out in the media, and the British military need to keep this as quiet as possible," Dingle said

    J-Model PMA

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    I agree with you George, and beleive they still need to know systems. I guess if they have a power failure and can't use the "their computers " they go on coffee break, LOL If I remember right the C 5 had a built in computer that could be used in troubleshooting a few systems..

    Mike

    Were you ever issued any weapons when sent in country?

    in C-130 Historical

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    When I was flying Gunships in Thialand we carried a 38 in the survial vest, checked it out at PE when we got our helmet,radios etc. When I got back to MAC in 1977 the FE and Load carried 38 cal. S & W "anti hi jack devices" which we checked out at the air cops armory [Yokota and Dyess], with the 3 hollow point and the 3 red rounds which where supposed to be loaded first, supposely they wouldn't go through the aircraft skin and then the 3 hollow points. Had to wear the shoulder hostler under the flight suit, who on the crew had the weapons, the 2 EM's with the big left tits.

    Mike

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