Railrunner130

It drives me nuts when they "preserve" an aircraft like that. For all that's been done, it could be a plastic rendition. They need a proper museum to be stored in along with a proper restoration.

Off my soapbox...

There's a little further history below that chart. I don't know if you saw that or not.

It also credits info to (BG) Tom Lauppe. Although I think (BG) Kennard Wiggins most likely compiled this information. If you can dig up e-mail addresses on either of those two guys, I'm sure they could help you out. I wouldn't be surprised if they were members here.

Here's an article that will hopefully shed some light on remaining questions. About half way down are the C-130As.

http://www.militaryheritage.org/DANGTailNos.html

They got lucky in that the prop went away from the airplane and not towards and into it.

This looks repairable to me. Thoughts?

It's all fun and games until it's PDM time. That's why the AF claims it was removed from service- they didn't want to flip the bill to get the PDM cycle spun up.

That being said, I think if the C-27J had been purchased 10 years earlier, there would be significantly less Herks in service today.

What is/was the HC-177?

I don't recall seeing the photos, but I remember flying on either 1391 or 1396 and it had a waterline marked in the cargo compartment from that flood.

Where are the old Nashville airplanes (89-) that were distributed to Alaska and Niagara?

It used to be that vehicles that were painted blue meant that anyone with a general purpose govt drivers license could drive them.

92-0554 is at Reno. A former co-worker posted a photo. Apparently, they're very slowly getting H3s.

A quick internet search revealed that one of the two remaining Mars is at the museum in Pensacola! Awesome! I hope someone can find a way to get the other one to Baltimore.

Sorry to hijack the thread.

It looks to me like Dobbins is converting to H3s with the rest of the 50th airplanes being sent to replace AMPed airplanes and MAFFS 7. The balance of the 81s were sent to the 327th to fill in their numbers. Perhaps the rest of the "new" units will receive their full compliment when Yokota converts to Js. It also looks like they're trying (for the most part) to keep like serial numbers together for commonality sake.

Just my guess.

There's a second photo on this page.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20140921-0

I know the WCs were at Nashville for a while. Then, PR ANG got hold of them when Nashville went to Predators. I've also seen photos of Savannah tail flashes on WCs.

I hope that helps!

I do remember seeing one there many years ago in storage near where UH was to be built. It was green with a radome. I think a buddy of mine took me on a tour of Dulles one weekend during his shift. I think there was a Connie down there too.

I haven't been down to UH at Dulles in a number of years. I thought it odd that the Herk wasn't on display.

I've read the book. It seems to me that things are done significantly different now than then. Perhaps his memory isn't what it was.

However, I used to fly with an engineer that liked to alternate the engine start sequence because over time the engines would have different times on them. Made sense I guess. On your typical engine start, the #3 would end up with about 10 minutes or so more run time than #1.

I hate it when the people that don't know any better (not really their fault I guess....) use stock photos.

It would take significantly more than just adjusting the wings for this to fly. The engines would have to be realigned to face forward, the wing box would have to be reworked. Not to mention that the aerodynamics would require testing, new TOLD and who knows what else I'm missing.

If the wing was out of plumb, my guess would be that it was yoke-actuator-induced.

My vote is HOAX!

That looks like it could be the case. The paint doesn't match before and aft of the crew entrance door. The front looks like it's been crash landed a few too many times. I imagine the sheet metal work to put the two pieces together wasn't all that difficult.

I believe it was broken up as a result of the tornado damage. I'd guess the damage was more significant than it appears in the photos.

http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=73548

Tornado damage at Little Rock in 2011.

I think it is the Trulink system. Some people like them. I know there is a certain amount of tweaking to be done to get them to work right. Personally, I find them bulky and haven't worked with them enough to get the tweaking down.

We've received ours. There is some info provided and an e-mail was sent out (I can't remember if it was also made into an FCIF or not) that had more info.

Simple wisdom in these. I wonder how many he really said...?

I ran into this situation once about ten years ago. If the oxygen tank has been certified "Empty" it can be transported. If not, it is assumed to have an unknown quantity of liquid oxygen in it and must be transported hooked up to the vent.

As far as the legal aspect, I don't recall whether it can be transported with passengers or not. I believe the answer is yes, but that might be what we consider a "Chapter 3" move, which allows most hazards to be transported with passengers.