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Spectre623

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  1. If this is a standard Lox tank used to service military aircraft, it can be carried full in a C-130 if it is connected to the overboard vent aft of the left wheel well and someone is monitoring the LOX cart pressure. No big deal , have done it many times. Even carried 2 carts vented in to one vent line. It is all permitted. Bill

  2. Got the book and burned thru it in little over an hour as it is only 100 pages long

    . Fer sure a real crew chief wrote it. I had to keep looking at the name of the author to make sure it wasn't me that had written it. It was a near copy of my first 4 years at Sewart AFB Tn...the tech school on B-47's at Amarillo AFB Tx, (within 3 months of my enlistment) the class pic on the wing then going straight to C-130's. Also the 60 day rotations to the Philippines, him Mactan, me to Clark. Breaking down in Bangkok for an extended stay,him with an engine change, same here plus a prop change...how convenient. He even told about the misery of changing dozens of MLG tires with all the thousands of steel wires sticking out of the tread, with your bare hands (ice tires...in Vietnam, go figure) All in all a neat little book and to the outside world a good thumbnail sketch of what a C-130 crew chief did in the early days of the then, fairly new Herk. I give it a thumbs up. Bill :)

  3. Never seen that config on ext. fuel tanks on8554. I zoomed in on those outboard tanks and they look like fuel tanks not IFR pods or ECM pods. They look a little smaller than 1360 gal. like the inboards. Wonder where they would go needing that much fuel? Bill

  4. Frank is 100% correct. If I hadn't had my travel vouchers from Nam to prove BOG I wouldn't have my "OFFICIAL VIET NAM VET" ribbon and updated DD214. I pray I don't ever have to file a claim on it...but it is there. Bill :)

  5. The gland nut holds (keeps)the piston in a hyd. cylinder or in this case the lower part of the MLG strut which is the piston, in the cylinder which is the upper half of the strut. The gland nut is a threaded ring which screws into the bottom of the strut barrel (cylinder). If the nut comes unscrewed the lower half of the strut which has the axle and tire on it falls out. The gland nut has safety wire to keep it from unscrewing...which it did anyway for some reason. Bill - Note: After I enlarged the pic of the one posted here, it is clear the gland nut and all the packing is still on the piston part of the strut. It should be fairly easy to determine what went wrong as all the pieces are there.

  6. If the bad guys had eardrums, any dinking with the pressure, flux or depressurize ,would tip them off somebody was playing games. I suggest dumping fuel. Pull the T handle and deploy a life raft (hoping it won't hang on the horz. or vertical stab). That would tell the F-16 guys they were in distress or stupid. Ha Ha Bill

  7. Hey Dave , I think the people told you wrong. I helped build the first 4 LC-130H models the NY Air guard got and they have the macdaddy JATO mounts on the air deflector doors. Check out the first H they got in the gallery. It is Lockheed sn. 5007. 3 very clear pics and one with the bottles attached. And for the best action photo see sn. 5016e in the gallery! :) Bill

  8. Jbob, using the same high tech system as mentioned above, the answer is "No" the USMC J models do not have JATO mounts. I guess the J's with the big motors and new fangled props are all the power the Marines need. I can believe it as I saw a Lockheed Flight demo in England several years ago and it put to rest ANY doubt in my mind that the J needed any more power. I could not believe the stunts they made that Herk do and not fall out of the sky. Bill

  9. After about 15 min. of research in Lars book and the gallery on this great website I have found this info. If you look at some of the several pics of selected build numbers and tail numbers you can see which Herks have the JATO mounts as per JBobs question. Bill,

    4528 USCG 74 H model Has JATO mts.

    4543 USAF 73-1581 H model Has JATO mts.

    4585 USAF 74-1659 H model No JATO mts.

    4677 USMC 160017 R model Has JATO Mts.

    5109 KC-130 8409 T model Has JATO mts.

  10. On 2 Dec 2013 I received a 30th edition list dated March 2012, from 1954-2014. Only problem is it is unbound. Not a book but 168 pages and cover. Lars said in a letter to me that he has a few more sets if I know anyone who wants them. He says he has lost the energy to make any more because of old age. Gett'em while you can guys...there ain't no more. Thanks Lars for all you've done for the Herk community. :( Bill

  11. Same here Don. I took a 21 month break after my first 4 years and went back in in July 68 and left in 2003...I sorta liked the Air Force, AD,ANG and Reserves. Bill

  12. Actually guys and especially you who have been out 20+ years the whole discussion is useless unless you know, understand and have access to the total picture ie., FMC, PMCS, PMCM, NMCM, NMCS rates and utilization rate. These are all factors that give the true health of the fleet and if you can fly a certain mission. So the headlines above are junk. Those letters are the "new" OR, NORS-G from the old days Tinwhistle. Bill:)

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