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  1. We always let the crew open the door first... and usually the pilot would open his swing window before the crew door opened. I learned that for engine/aircraft pressurization runs, the person sitting left seat would open the swing window, letting you know the airplane was depressurized so you could open the crew door. Another thing I remember is that the static grounding wires had to be installed prior to opening the door... but that could be the grey matter in this old noggin going...
  2. I\'m going to have to go digging around my reference materials... what has been said about curvature breaks is accurate; and the brake occurs at the floor level. If you need more pictures, or pictures that show the change and chine angle better, drop me a line...
  3. Wow, I\'d forgotten about the Service News... would like to get all of them, if I could... Hope they approve, Casey!
  4. I\'ve always done liferaft rigs with the dummy bottles. Most were in rig, but there were a few that were out of tolerance. I seem to remember a bunch of TCTO\'s on the life raft system in the late 1980\'s, when we had the two or three inadvertant deployments (one of which was a bird from our unit at Kirtland). I also remember that something was done to the cables that might possibly throw the rigging off. Another thing that just popped into my mind-the cable configuration changed model to model, and it almost seems from year to year. The job guides don\'t cover all the models, IIRC, because I had to go to the old -2 maintenance manuals to rig the liferafts on a 1968 FY model bird.
  5. DC10FE wrote: :cheer: Done most of this! LOL.....
  6. When I built my HC-130P (66-0225), I used Plastruct C-shaped beams for the ODS rails on the cargo door. I\'m pretty sure that I\'ve got a decent picture of that part of the aircraft that I can scan in for you... Helped pull the ODS system out of the HC\'s in the late 1980\'s-we all thought that it was the wrong move. The removal had nothing to do with the SOFI mod-it predated that mod by a few years. Ahhh, the memories of working Rescue birds....
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