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Quiet Knight

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  1. Thanks Bob, that's the one. I only heard about this as the plane passed through FL ~12+ years ago. Looks like Snow Aviation International has AMP all figured out. Anybody know why big AF isn't looking seriously at Modern Technology Cockpit (MTC) by Snow?
  2. TalonOneTF can verify or maybe embellish the story where we had a Skyhook radome take a bird strike. The write-up looked something like this... DISCREPANCY: Bird strike on nose radome, possibly a duck. Sure enough, upon opening the radome there was a pressed duck between layers of fiberglass. We changed the radome. Heard on the flightdeck on a low level MC-130E flight after a bird strike just below the center windscreen... Rt Seat, "What kind of bird was that?" Lt Seat, "an unlucky one." FE, "don't know what kind but it had the biggest eyes I've ever seen; big as dinner plates just before impact."
  3. Back in Kunsan Korea I worked the last of the F-4D's there as a new COMM/NAV guy. Write-up in 781A stated: DISCREPANCY: Upon taxi back to parking, engines shut down, all avionics switched off, -60 power unit connected, master switches in EXT PWR and crew chief hooked up to ground cord in nose wheel well I could hear AFKN in my headsets. CORRECTIVE ACTION: They do that sometimes. Seems with a ground cord hooked up the interphone system would act like a radio receiver tuned to AFKN with a long ground cord as an antenna.
  4. I miss the days when I worked at Det 4 at the Lockheed facility in Ontario CA. We could go from drawing board to flight test in a matter of days instead of years. If there was a problem with a herk I could always count on an engineer, technician, production manager and program management to be at the plane working to find the best and most economical solution. When we turned over a plane from mod to home station it had already accumulated multiple test flights and at least one customer acceptance flight (often 2 or 3). We always included maintenance in the turnover and continued support after delivery with anything that came up. I have one question to all out there in the C-130 world... what ever happened to the C-130A that was modified at Crestview Aerospace with a low-power DC flight deck and COTS displays??? I believe it was a private endeavor and just faded away but it had 5VDC LED lighting and consumed a lot less power than any other C-130. One last note... Go check out www.bluemountainavionics.com and tell me what you think here. Very cool stuff at a very low cost.
  5. Woke up on a very comfortable pallet in the back of a MC-130E and discovered the Load, "Spoon", had tied me down by weaving 780 cord over every appendage like a spider web. I couldn't move. To top it all off, he asked Eng to give some heat in the back as I was directly under one of the vents near the wing box. As I tried to get out everyone came back to take a look at Gulliver, the AMT. Later, I took "Spoon's" helmet bag and duct-taped it into a small ball which we played catch with for the remainder of the flight. He didn't discover his helmet bag missing until after landing; had no idea it was his bag we were playing catch with until I told him later. Another flight overseas to do a Fulton demo in Korea we stopped at Yokota on the way back. The load bought a very nice 15 speed bicycle at the BX and hung it upside down from the tires by the ramp and door. Before take-off I let the air out of the bike's tires so they wouldn't pop during flight (I figured 65 psi might be a bit much at altitude). But my evil side make me keep it a secret. About halfway in the ascent I emptied my bag lunch and out of sight blew the bag up and popped it very loudly. I made sure I was positioned close to the bike hanging upside-down in the back. Eng came running back around the pallet asking, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT". I got up and squeezed the bike tires and said, "tires blew out at altitude, guess you'll have to buy new tubes when you get home." He looked so sad pushing his bike off the ramp when we RTB. I have some more "back end stories"
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