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    Ralph
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    Miller
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    Antique machinery Gas engines and such and yes old Airplanes with real engines Love round engines.

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    c-130 crewchief for forever.
    I am pushing 60 and retire in march. Started on B mdels at Yokota from 69-71
    Travis on c-5s and 141's for a year but consider that my dark ages period.
    Back on 130's in late 72-73 at CCK. Was assigned to 63-7865 and when it went to depot got 7776. what a flying junkpile that thing was. Said the only way to get it into the air was to jack it! 73-75 Langley with the 316th had a 62 E 1803 it was a great bird. It went to the Guard the day I left Langley. Took some time off and joune the guard to work on A models! We got new H2s in 85 and I had 211 up until a Tornado took it out. I was deployed when that happened. Now I am a Dock chief for a couple of months more. Think I have more time in a herk than some pilots!
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    Full time Air guard Iso Dock Chief

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    herky211 replied to bobdaley's topic in C-130 General

    All of the scrap went to a military depot as far as I know!
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    herky211 replied to bobdaley's topic in C-130 General

    I basically owned 211 for better than 10 years. I was deployed to Afghanistan when the tornado hit and when I got home she had been shorn up and pretty much a mess. I went inside and just died. We kept hearing they were going to fix it and we all knew better. I don't know who the fool was but her back was broken in two places and I have seen crashed airlplanes that looked better. I got to help the team take it apart and get what we could to fix the other three. The team that worked on all of them was wonderful and yes they kept giving me pieces and I finally kept one. I was given 1057 as a replacement and while a decent bird it just wasn't the same. I took 211 almost completely around the world and it was one of the best C-130s I ever worked on. I have a bunch of pictures I will post of a lot of different birds I have been around over the years. I think the count was ten dumpsters for all of it. Most pieces were about 4 feet square. We did keep a piece of wing for trining and ended up needing the barrel nuts on it to get 209 flying again after the wing barrel nut fiasco! So all of the fleet has at least one piece of 211 on it.
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