Fräulein

still getting the message :/ But third time is always the charm. Thankfully this time it is not operator error.

Long story short, a news site published an article with a link to a post on the site. This has created a huge spike in traffic which is overloading the host's server. I have removed the post. Hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

Which article?

MMMM that looks a lot like a MC-P or HC-P, externals and refueling pods.

"Guys" is a generic term nowdays:D

Dan

Ah.

There's an A model at Kirtland?

Who's is it and whats it doing there, any of you 550th guys out there fill in the details?

Dan

was?

http://www.herkybirds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=983

I believe so - Like I had said in the original post - I believe it is "experimented" on. But that becomes the rumor of any aircraft that sits long enough at Kirtland. It is no longer on the google image that I had pulled a few months ago either. If you go to the current google image of the barn - it is no longer there.

Maybe he's talking about the bird that tests the funky laser? .

Frau is a she. ;)

When I left Albatraz er Albuquerque I think we (the 550th) had 9 Herks, 4 MC-P's 1 HC-P and four Talon II's, its the school house for those airframes.

Dan

I think it is 9 and the one grey A model. {current google map has nine the grey a model is missing.} But they now share the "barn" with some Ospreys. Which I like to think of as the little bastard child of the Herk. :D

This was part of the strongest man competition in Charleston, WV last summer.

It is? hmm. I thought it was just another budget cut from the administration. And that this was how the unemployment situation was being worked out.

Do you live near a C-130 base. I would not trade the sounds for anything. Still when the wind is right, I can her purr during engine runs at night. I think it was Haggard that said something like "even the bad times are good". I say even the bad times WERE good. What I wouldn't give!!

HighTide

"Wayne"

I miss the run up and run down drone. But I still smile and have some feelings of being content and happy when I hear one drone overhead. Kirtland, as I understand has a few for special missions.

The distinct sound was such a prevalent noise in my childhood growing up at Clark. The run ups were usually about the time we were passing the flighline in the bus on the way to school. And the run down on the way home from school. And then there were the late night run ups - the sound would put me to sleep.

The other week we were out somewhere in town and I heard it. I said "There is a herk coming in." We waited about ten minutes and there she was. Just moving in slow motion across the sky.

I live on top of a ridge and some day they come right down the ridge line and I about knock down the door to get out side to get a look at it, but I sure do miss those days.

This is me. Sometimes they will be coming in on approach (I live about 15-20 miles out) It is something I have always done. I run outside and wave.

Nah, easy to keep clean, just needs an orange and blue racing stripe.

Wax on/Wax off!

Already has the blue stripe.

Made a minor adjustment (a la pacifica southwest airways) good to go

Perhaps we ought to go in for a group buy:D

Kinda like a time share herk:rolleyes:

Dan

Sure. I'll write a check. But that paint scheme has gotta go.

It just does not look like a Herk with that white paint scheme. It looks kind of ... I dunno... delicate.

Yes that was the one.

Thank you for posting gun porn. :D

I don't think they have enough firepower.

Not with this current administration's budget.

Thank you kindly for the offer, but here are some (about half) of mine.

But I can still use many many more guns:D Ammo too, only have about 35K rounds right now.

Dan

*is jealous* :`(

What is the second one in from the right? I had thought fg42 but the stock is wrong.

Is that a Kalashnikov AKMS in the corner?

(come to think of it, I don't have nearly enough guns either).

Dan

You may borrow if so needed

On the herk from CCK to Clark, I managed to sleep in a washtub.

Slept like a baby.

'Course I was a baby.

I do however have a compulsion to doze off when I hear a herk droning overhead. Or if I am over at my mother's house in Albuquerque, and they are doing a run up. Maybe it is the noise.

I think we need a Hammock thread. :D

We used to use the coffee pot as an oil bath to heat up our engine bearings. We always gave it a good pre and post bearing scrub...but I don't think it helped the coffee any either way.

This is starting to sound like "Helpful Hints From Heloise". :D

Man those are some memory's, it was always a blast driving from the Al Yamamma to the base, you could drive like you always wanted too!

Traffic signs and lights are more of a suggestion and traffic circles - well lets not go there:D

Dan

The pedal in the middle (or the left one if it is an automatic) that is for decoration.

Saudi Microsecond: Time elapsed from green light to first horn honk.

(Still got your Casio "AWACS" watch?)

This is true. It is that point as the light has completed turning green is when you honk. The first time I was ever in Chicago, my husband was driving. After the first few blocks, he pulled over and I told him - "you gotta drive like a Saudi, if we are gonna make it out of here." I got a puzzled look. He then got out, and walked around to my side and said "Fine. You drive."

Whats with the pole I voted not sure for what.

You just voted for Obama to become supreme leader. Congratulations.

Women dance on poles. People vote on polls. ;)

Limited to four images -

the FDS - If anyone remembers his name let me know

Leon Manarang

the images are all located here >> http://s417.photobucket.com/albums/pp255/FrauleinM/Clark%201977/

BTW - if anyone is interested in little hand drawn notes of the following airports and Clark field- let me know. These were also in my mother's flight book.

Landing Runway 09

Landing Runway 02

Landing Runway 20

Castilljos

Cubi (RPMB)

Plaridel

Lingayen

Rosales

San Jose

San Fernando -La Union (Poro Point)

Laoag (RPML)

Manila 13 from the north, 31, 06, and 24

Going through the big box of "here I don't need any of this anymore" from my mom. The box contained her flight logs, flight computer,and her records of anything associated with the Aero Club. But in it was a school report my sister had written. And the following images.

DISCOVER FLYING! Cindy. Melsie. Jaime Rider

(BAH!! FOILED BY THE LIMITED TO 4 IMAGES )

ancedote - My father having been serving in the AF and maintaining c130s a good portion of his life, always drank coffee. Black.

On his last visit, my sister being the "high class gotta have the most expensive everything snob" type that she is, took him to Starbucks. He arrived at my house still holding a 3/4 full tall cup. He was just sipping it. I asked him if it was too hot? He replied that he did not want to hurt my sister's feelings after she had just bought him a coffee that had tasted like it had been sitting in the tank overnight.

Anyways - I had always been under the assumption that the coffee was ordered and brewed by the in-flight kitchen peoples. Picked up and delivered. One pot water. One pot "coffee".

IED finder

This punishment would be a short lived one. He would get off easy.

On the face of it, it sounds good. But, I wouldn't want anyone who is serving with honor to have to depend on this individual.

I would much rather see him working 12 on 12 off in the laundry washing the uniforms of those who are much more fit serve.

(I'd let him have Sundays off, restricted to his room. An opportunity for some introspection might help this "gentleman".)

No - laundry is to easy.

Send him to Iraq and give him the job of being the military's full time Shit Burner.

She .. kept telling me she was gonna get me back. She never did.

When a woman tells you "I'm gonna get you back" - we do not have a specified time frame as to when we are going to act on our threat.

We give you time to forget your trespass. That way, when we do finally act. You will wonder who it was.

So she may have gotten you back - but the list of people you may have pissed off had grown wider at the time that she did get you back.

"You Can't Go Back (to an old base)"

This is a true statement.

Clark is a sad state.

Adorable. :)

That scene was filmed at Mojave Airport. The aircraft are C-133B cargomasters.

Other parts of the movie were filmed at Red Rock Canyon in CA and Long Beach.

LOVED The flamethrower one.