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Welllll maybe your very own C-130....... Bill

The C-133 didn't do much AD. It did however make many drop tests of the Apollo Command Service Module from 1963-1969 from 30,000 ft. at El Centro Ca. Bill

There was/is an aeromed outfit at MacDill we used to support with a weekend Herk from Dobbins. On Sat. it took the aeromeds up for 4 hours and they played doctor while flying mostly in circles. Don't know about the A-10 though, might'a been lost, ha ha. Always enjoyed that TDY and ate breakfast at Pop's and son and lunch at the Cuban Cafe then OD'ed on crab legs for dinner all on Dale Mabry blvd.. Bill

Saw a listing of the active duty C-130's today and saw where they have one each TC-130H. Was or is that the same Herk with the roto dome on it. It landed at Dobbins several years ago and I haven't seen nor heard of it since. Bob...anybody?? Bill

Well said US HERK! I went inside this acft a couple of times when it was still on the Lockheed flightline back in the mid 80's, it was like seeing a piece of AF history, which it is! It most certainly should be preserved. Bill

Version number is painted on cab nose (first painted on while in cab jig being built) is nothing more than the build code. It refers back to the desires of the buyer. It tells the production builder what to put on the airframe and what blueprint to pull and use to put the customers options on ie. mud flaps, radio, whiteside wall tires, cruise control etc. If you ever worked the production line at Lockheed and been through an auto factory they are very similar such as the way the line is layed out and the way the build code is used on both. As an OJT ( that is Lockheeds title for a person who has various lousy little jobs) when a worker had a problem that I was suppose to help figure out, it usually was because he was using the wrong blueprint. We were on a 7 day move and we moved the line on swing shift every 7th night and some dayshift guys wouldn't notice it the next morning and using yesterdays print (which he didn't turn in at the end of his shift) he would have problems trying to build an 18B with a set of 44E prints. First thing I would say is " let me see your prints" This was in the mid 80's and we were building H's. It was a great experience to have worked there.. BUT...wouldn't want to go back, ha ha. Bill :)

Good fer you Bob. Maybe you can get on Howard and when you get back give us old rotaters a SITREP on how it looks now, and happy b'day too Bob. Bill

YOU are the man Casey...thanks for adding my pics. Bill

Thanks Bob. Nice to know. Funny thing about the 183TAS, we (Dobbins) were on rotation with them on their last Panama Rote and I had consigned a bunch of C-130 stuff from the Lockheed gift shop to take down and sell, well wouldn't you know it they were getting 141's and didn't want no stinkin' C-130 stuff, ha ha . The next group behind us sure wanted that 130 stuff!. It was one of many fun rotes to Panama. Bill :)

Hey Bob your post caused an odd thought to float up to the top, that begs for an answer....several years ago an early H2 model, I think a 79 model, landed at Dobbins. I went out to greet the CC and noticed it didn't have SKE and a few other late model mods. I ask the CC where they were from ( maybe Alabama,don't remember) but he said they flew support for ANG fighter units. Is this what the OSA Herks are used for and what happened to the H that landed at the DARB... did it get sucked into the" I want all the newer H's for the active duty" thing ? It was not an ex rescue/weather bird. Thanks Bill

Ha Ha he will know it when he has to pull 19.6 to get it to the blocks. Bill :)

In case they land gear up and the pilot faints then the CP can steer with the props.....Bill :D

Did the 550th at Kirkland decend from the 1550ATTW at Hill in the 70's? Just curious. Bill

Easy, steering cyl on back of nose strut on C-54, on the front on C-118. Bill

I still have a copy of that yellow handbook. Lockheed gave us a bunch when we got our "New" 1981 H models at Dobbins in 1982. They were good for the C-7 guys to thumb thru to get familar with the Herk. There is also a pale blue C-130 E/H handbook dated 1 Apr 1995 which is larger than the yellow book. They both say the handbook is not to be used as tech data and will not be used as such. Lots of good drawings and info. They are good Herk primers for people who were never on them. Bill

After your through hittem' with a mallet try kicking the tire to check the tire press and then raise the crew door waist high and shake it side to side. Just a few other usless tricks some people do to a 130. HA Ha. Larry is correct, use the T.O. to service the strut properly. Just remember press vs. x measurement. Bill

TOOOOO FUNNY HERCMAINT...good one ha ha ha . Bill

Visited the Marietta Avation Museum today and spoke with the curator and he showed me a metal model about 1 foot long of the YMC-130. The detail was fantastic. It had all the rockets and included the belly hook for catching the wire like on a carrier or the over run wire. It was complete with the DC-130 radome. He had gotten it from somewhere in Lockheed. It appears to have been built by the mockup shop at Lockheed. It was hand made but looked as good as any plastic model. I will take pics of it next time I go there to post here. He also mentioned the YMC-130 at Robins had been offered to them but their museum didn't have the bucks to move it the 80 some odd miles to Marietta. Too bad. Bill [ATTACH=CONFIG]2466[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]2469[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]2465[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]2467[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]2468[/ATTACH]

Bob, you know that old AF saying" If they ain't bitchin',they ain't happy"...I think the Wright brothers might have started that when they landed after the first flight and headed to the club and left the crew chief on the plane to straighten the mess up and rerig it and with no transportation. Bill :)

Hey Mike you asked where the crew chiefs were hiding while you were rigging you bird at all those E model bases you were TDY to? They were hiding in the same place you were when we (maint) were rigging the bird at home base. You weren't required to come out from ops or while you were in crew rest to help the maint team rig, were you? Well we weren't required to come out and stop working on our own planes to help a TDY crew re-rig their plane . It just didn't work that way...wasn't designed to work like that. If you were TDY at a base that had en-route support you might get help rigging your bird if it was supporting that base or was a priority mission otherwise you and your crew was responsible for re-rigging your bird. Maint was given fuel load, configuration and take off time on the flying schedule and that was when maint rigged the bird, after take off it was your baby. As far as the CC flying with the bird from home station there were 10,000 reasons that ops and maint would or would not have a CC fly. As far as CC's flying with their bird in country,the CC and asst CC would fly into VN, usually ending at CRB or TSN (depending on what model you were on,) and split up into 12 hour shifts to keep their bird OR. If you flew with your bird in-country (which I did sometimes) you were flying on your off time. When the plane landed back at CRB you still had to pull your 12 hour shift. When your bird was OR (usually by 0200-0300hrs) you could stay and try to sleep on the bug infested plane till the flt crew arrived or go back to the CC shack next to maint control where you were subject to being put with a crew rigging or refueling other planes. Until a CC had put in 12 hours there was no consideration for him to rest. AF considered him a hazard after 12 hours and then he was supposed to get rest.....but who went by that rule? ha ha. Bill :)

Dave, the Have Auger program was the actual development of the lenses for the LLLTV system. That may be why that name is not tagged to the USAF T.O. Bill

Good one Frank. Nothin' in the star lizard's bar fer sure. MAC sho wasn't TAC or PACAF Bill

[it was the first pressurized passenger airliner and the first to have an FE. Don R.

Hey Giz and Frank, not a 130 comment but as FE on 141's in the mid 70's we had a bar in each troop door and 2 flare guns mounted on it. One FE and one Load manned them on take off and landing as needed. Must have been very effective as we never lost a 141 to SAM's. Then again I never heard of anyone firing them. Sure miss those high tech days.....Bill:(

That would be your AN/ASQ-145LLLTV (low light level TV) located in the crew door on the AC-130A and AC-130H. Not so secret now. It's all on the web. Bill