fenmonster

Apparently the 141's had that vacuum system installed for a few years until a nav broke open one of those plastic puzzles with the metal BB's inside. From the story the tail looked like someone took a shotgun to it, and the vacuum was quickly removed from service.

True story except the way we were told it was a big bag of spare Pachinco machine balls and the vertical stab was almost shot off. They were, as the story goes, at .825 mach at the time. This whole story may be a "MAC" legend anyway...

When the airframes were streached the sextant port was covered by the URASI and "deleted" from the airframe.

I also looked into it for my unit. Long wires suck! But I hit a roadblock with security. Keeping the secure coms inside the plane. Then youd need to justify only needing one on the plane for the load or who ever is in the back. If it was a whole aircrew thing it would be easier. It would be nice thought. Hell I even thought about making something that hung from the overhead to hold the cord up but figured it was easier to learn cable control...

You should try controlling the long cord on a C-5. :D

Not to get side tracked ...

Fenmonster, when where you at Zegreb Croatia? 93, 94 time frame?

I belive that it was in the march-may '93 time frame. I was TDY to Rhein Mein from Pope and was passing thru Zagreb picking up cargo for Sarajevo. Was there (Frankfurt) about 6 months that year.

I went on a impromptu tour of one in Zagrabe during Provide Promise one time. Case after case of Vodka was stacked everywhere on both upper and lower flight decks. The russian crew was joking about how much they drank before flying. Especially before A/R's. Scared the Hell out of me.

Did all three top rounds in the cylinder detonate at the same time? Saw what was left of a .40 glock that had a double charge go off once about 1991.

Think this may have been the Herk that was damaged by an Oxygen recharger hose stuffed behind a circuit breaker panel. I took this photo during a Rodeo at Pope around 1987.

When I was stationed there (87-94) the "official" story was that the cargo comp A/C plug was left installed. It caught fire shortly after turning on the A/C. It was used for load training after that..

My Favorite sound is the Herky Growl. You know when all 4 are in LSGI and throttles are pushed forward enough to make the engines quiet, then the pilot pulls them back into the GI Detent and she makes a growling noise. That is an awesome sound.

I used to do that when working grave shift at Pope. About 3 AM for a couple of minuites straight. Used to wake up the whole base..:rolleyes:

HMMM I might have a suggestion for the suggestion program thread. If we pull our acft think how much the savings would be...:rolleyes:

Action Taken.

This is particularly hard for me because I was a 20 year Navy brat before I joined the AF......I've seen almost 50 years of benefit deterioration.:mad:

Same here. I was an A.F brat for over 20 years myself. Lived the whole "it was never promised in writing" shpeel as we watched our earned benifits slowly erode. Even the B.X. and commisarry aren't that great of a deal anymore. They have good sales once in a while but other that that the BX's no sales tax is about the only break you get these days.

C/W

There's some good looking Garands you got there Dan.

I really really feel bad for our guys over in Afghanistan when buttmunching idiot's like this are in charge of our boots on the ground. Dear God, is he McNamaras kid or something?

I think he needs a good bayonetting, how can you have peace with a group who's sole goal is to destroy you and your way of life.

I don't know who said it first but "the job of the military is to kill the enemy and break his things". Period. NOT wonder about their feelings. The people in charge at all levels need to figure this out real quick.

Thank God this post got back on track! Oh wait a minute..... Is that a "T" tailed, swept wing, subsonic, bug suckin, mountain magnet I see on Jerry "fenmonster" Fenwick's avitar?? DUDE!

Ok in all fairness Our illustrious administrator is working C-5's

Why yes it is.. I was however a C-130E Crew Chief for almost 10 years mostly at Pope. (87-94) before cross training to C-141-B/C-5A/B F.E. At least my avatar is still (or was) an airlift asset. I saw someones avatar here that is a T-33.

Man, Dont I wish:D But then again, he didn't have nearly enough guns so maybe it evens out (come to think of it, I don't have nearly enough guns either).

Dan

There is no such thing as too many guns...

--Jerry "fenmonster" Fenwick

I guess the site went down for a bit?

Got some strange pm along with a strange URL from some unknown. So deleted it.

Same here.

--Jerry "Fenmonster" Fenwick

This one time I was showing a new guy a wiring bundle to re-attach in the fillet panel area above the wheel well and left him to his work. (did I mention I am almost a foot taller than this guy?) anyway later he asked me to check his work so I bounded up the stand to see what he had done. Unknown to me he had raised the stand a foot so I hit my head when I got to the top. I left a core sample of skin and hair on one of the fuel tank vent lines. didn't bleed that much but damn near passed out and was half cukoo for a few minuites.

Jerry "Fenmonster" Fenwick

Get a waiver from Momma MAC, take off, then shut it down when at a "safe" airspeed/altitude. Of course if the per diem is good:D......

Fenmonster

C-130E crew Chief

C-141B / C-5 FE

I know the Argentineans tried to use Herks as bombers during the Falklands. They were just rolling the bombs out the back trying to hit ground targets. The Brits kept warning them to not use transports like that and finally a Sea Harrier ended up shooting at least one down. No more attempts were made after that.

--Jerry "Fenmonster" Fenwick

Here's a video of it landing in McChord. It had a really unique sound -- sorta like the 3-bladed A-models.

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Got to love electric props.....At least I think they were electric.

Jerry "Fenmonster" Fenwick

Col,

Hope all is well!

Captain Mark W Reynolds 64-0501 on 28 Apr 1992.

I don't have any info here in Boston but I think they were flying out of Pope on a low level and ended up in Blewett Falls Lake. I don't know why.

Bob

Hi Col,

Bob's info is correct. I was at Pope at the time of this mishap. They were on a low level but had some extra time and Capt Reynolds was demonstrating some sort of ridge cresting maneuver used to recover from the vertical stabilizer stall problem. The gist was this was a maneuver supposedly used in the R.A.A.F. and Capt Reynolds was sure that it could be used to recover from vertical stabilizer stalls. They did it successfully the first time but lost it on the second attempt. I have a newspaper article somewhere about it. I also read the cockpit voice recorder after the mishap, but tried my best to forget what I had read.

Take Care,

Jerry "fenmonster" Fenwick