HerkyTestTech

Leslie I live in LA send me an email [email protected] maybe I'll be abold to help some way.

I don't believe it, I never saw a USAF Herk with red and white prop stripes

Yup it is, I know first hand it 97-1352 or 1354 I cant remeber wich of the two.

I have to agree it's RAF. The prop stripes are a give away along with the lack of defensive system sensors.

That incident happen in 1999 or 2000 it was a pre 5.4 software bird so it did not have def. systems yet. I know the crewchief that turn the soft panel off and did not checked for the NLG safety pin or the hard panel, the gear handle was in the up position on the hard panel.

I think, it was a Royal Air Force aircraft. The picture was photoshoped at the right places... ;-)

That picture has been sanitized to protect the innocent (aka dumb crewchief and aircrew) it is a Maryland ANG bird.

Yeah Bob, I'm working on that #4 info right now...I didn't get it earlier. The first three are in PDM right now, with 4 and 5 in mod now. #3(6704) is supposed to go back to Edwards for awhile for block upgrade testing. Hope they don't f@$* it up out there like they're getting ready to with...er, possibly 92-1536!

Bischoffm, yeah, you can blame the AF for that.

Pete

We miss you at Edwards too Pete :)

HF antenna or not, there is a pneumatic de-icing boot at the base of the vertical on the outside surface of the black patch. Result of ice shape testing during FAA certification.

Here is a good picture of the de-icing boot its the lighter black area in the black patch above the HF antenna.

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Yea, it was you as I recognized the black patch at the lower front of the vertical stab...is that some sort of antenna? The real C-130s did not have that {:-))

Muff

That black patch is the vertical stab de-icing boot, it inflates with bleed air and balloons up to break up any ice on the stab.

The AMP has a converter included with it. See, you get your money's worth!

The J-model has 6 or 7 stander 115 volts AC household outlets running at a frequency of 400 Hz. Sorry Pete I could not help myself.

I was TDY to the 139th AW Missouri Air National Guard this summer and found out that the engine run certified crewchiefs are taxi qualify still to this day.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/search-underway-for-survivors-off-military-aircaft-crash-off-southern-california-coast.html

Looks like a Coast Guard Herk and a Marine Cobra attack helicopter crashed off the cost of San Diego here in California. Just heard on the local news that they are looking for 9 aircrew members, I hope they are ok.

AMP cockpit daytime

J-model cockpit

They are not the best pictures but I hope they help.

Lockeed had nothing to do with this, other than making a couple of things harder for Boeing.

Why should Lockeed help Boeing after Darleen Druyun gave the AMP contract to Boeing illegally. If I was Lockeed I would not help someone (ie. Boeing) with something they cheated me out of, or did you forget about that Pete? http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/33b-rebid-for-c130-avionics-0451/ http://www.seattlepi.com/business/213499_gaoreport25.html

If you want to talk about short-sightedness, talk about it to the engineers at Boeing and Lockheed as well as USAF.

Well said US Herk

HerkyTestTech,

What's the scoop with it being an AMP nightmare?

Torque Cal is a 15 min job on a legacy bird, on the amp birds its a two day job because Boeing has to write software to upload to the computers.

I was just checking applicability and is it possible there are more H2.5 aircraft out there? The reason I ask is bob daley and TalonOneTF in an older post (http://www.herkybirds.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5309) pointed out that one of these three aircraft is a 2.5:

91-1239

89-9101

94-6704

Sonny

Only 91-1239 is an H2.5 the other two are an H2 and H3

After working on the AMP program the last 3 years I hope they kill the program and rebid the contract. The operators might like it but for us MX troops it is a nightmare.