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    Dyess 130 crash in Turkey circa 1980

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted · Edited by spec13fe
    misspelled name

    Found these names and date on the old board.

    March 14,1980 C130H 74-2064

    AC Capt Richard J. Wagner

    CP Maj. Michael L. Jones ( Was coming back into C130's after a tour as a T38 IP)

    Nav LtCol Benjamin H. Barnette Jr.

    FE SSgt Patrick L. Cypher

    LM SRA George K. Moreau

    CC A1C Howard K. Watkins

    Mike

    Dyess 130 crash in Turkey circa 1980

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    The aircrew was from the 773 TAS, Dyess. We were on Rote to Mildenhall and they were the Turkey trot crew. When I left on terminal leave in May 1980 the accident report had not came out. Will have to dig up the crew names. The FE was SSgt Pat Cypher, CP was Major Micky Jones, can't remember the rest of the crews names, know the Nav was a LtCol, who was the FOL commander , because the regular Nav had gone DNIF that morning. The Crew Chief was a 2 or 3 stripper name Watkins.

    Mike

    Mildenhall Questions

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Did several rotes to Mildenhall, the one that stands out was in 73(?) during the fuel shortage, flew one time on a local and one turkey trot in 60+ days, lot of beer drinking lol. Once we were in the barracks next to the old NCO club, had a rope and pullys with a basket, connected to window sill right behind the bar, write your order attach the money, let it down it would tap the window the bartender would get your beers, pull up the basket, drink away . Mike

    AFSOC Crew Selection Process

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Am I wrong ? But I seem to remember a windmill and buddy start where part of the AC upgrade program back in the old days. I remember pulling and pading a starter in Turkey while on ROTE and I don't remember anyone even asking, we did it to get the bird home and I do remember an "attaboy" from the ops officer, of course one "oh shit" whipped out all "attaboys". Still got my crooked starter/generator wrench that my first instructor and I made at the hobby shop.

    I think when I went to Gunships 500 hours was minimun time for FE's, which isn't much, just enough to be dangerous.

    Mike

    63-7777

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    If my memory serves correctly, ol bunch of 7\'s went to Kadena,

    then on to Yokota. This happened in in Oct of 73. The only 63

    model that went south to Clark belonged to E Flt. Bunch of 7s

    could be hard to get off the ground, but flew pretty good.

    When I was an FE at Yokota had a lot of trouble getting a local off , but take her out of country and get all ok flights. Almost as if it knew!!!!

    Mike

    %MAC and limits

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    At Hickam the FE section did all the W&B in moments for the birds and kept a "canned" copy of it in the FE section. We had to redo them like every 3 months or so. Since the birds weight and CG never changed for our typical missions, or at least very little. Maybe an extra body or so.

    When I was in the Gunships many moons ago the FE filled out the form F we used the "canned" form F, good for 3 months, the only time anything changed them was when a bird went to depot.

    Was my extra duty for the first 5 months I was in Thialand. Had to fill them out for all the planes and then take them to wing stan eval for there blessing.

    When we picked up the SVN A model and flew them to Guam when Nam fell, they all had the slip stick in them, so made it easy to do the W&B.

    Mike

    Tdy's

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Made many TDY's some good some bad. One that stands out was in 1979 to Majors Field, Greenville,Tx. for an open house (think it was operated by LTV then) We were the Thunderbird support aircraft and we got all the "bennies" the poolside rooms at the motel and 3 cars for the crew, Zeros had one, Load and I had one, and the crew chief had one.

    I can't remember the city PR guys name but he had been a C130 Nav so he took care of us.

    Mike

    TDY\'S

    in C-130 General

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    For sure I\'m one of the old guys. First TDY was from Barksdale to Goose Bay with a KC97. Crew shut one down for low oil so we landed at Dow AFB filled the oil tank and on to Goose. This was in Jan of 1959. First C130 TDY was a crew of rookies newly upgraded AC and I was a new FE,(had flow once around the flagpole by myself) load was newbie with an old Nav (Lt Col) to \"babysit\" us a the Ops officer said. Was one of the old leave Friday be back Sunday put X number of hours on airframe missions. Think it was something like 12 hours to dock input on Monday, remember we parked on wash rack when we got home. Dyess to Patterson, ron, Patterson to Travis to DM ron, DM back to Dyess.

    Mike

    Hot Coffee Jugs

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Just before I retired at Dyess many moons ago (in the MAC era) had a young Lt. order Koolaid instead of coffee.( I didn\'t drink coffee so didn\'t bother me). Just so happened the vice wing king was flying with us and shortly after Takeoff he ask the load to get him a cup of coffee.When the load told him we didn\'t have coffee all \"old Billy hell\" broke loose, nomally I never felt sorry for a Lt. but that day the old sarge even felt sorry for him.

    Mike

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