Fräulein

Motorstorm commercial used one as well. Do not know who provided the aircraft though.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/10/motorstorm-pacific-rift-one-week-until-the-invasion/

Welcome! I would fall under the BS category for sure! Please feel free spread some more wealth and BS. we like it all.

I think most of us would prefer the former rather than latter.

BTW......those that have the art of kissing ass can expect their report's to go into the stellar mode!

Kurt

Ah. And there lies the my fatal flaw. I do not kiss ass.

"relic with an attitude"

I would have laughed as well. That is a nice compliment. Lets you know you are doing your job.

Or at least in my line of work it is.

superior!

I wish all of my reviews went that well. :(

newbie here. Just wanted to say Hi and introduce myself. My name is Patrick Griffin and I'm currently stationed at Kirltand AFB, NM. I'm an MC-130P Instructor FE currently going through upgrade to evaluator. Crew Chief for most of my career but cross trained 2004. Flew C-130E/H3's in the 61 AS, then moved over to AFSOC in the 17th SOS at kadena. I currently instruct schoolhouse students on both the Shadow and King as well as being the Ops Sup in the 550 SOS. Anyway, stumbled on here through heyeng.com and am glad to have found this site.

I live over the hill just outside of the 'Burqe. Nice to see someone close by.

You can pass on my compliments to the crew that took off today at about 317pm. It appeared effortless.

Let the hazing begin....

Hmmmm. You live in Rio Rathole - I'll let it slide.

Youtube.

To narrow your search - if you want interior views of loads going out, type in loadmaster.

Unfortunately you will be subjected to "angsty teen music" on some of the better ones.

But..

Here's the echo check videos.

That is the one! I was wrong about the time on it.

I'll share my happy little Santa memory.

At Clark, Santa would do a fly over, at night. "We" would be in the car listening to the radio hearing Santa report in on conditions, and names of kids.

We could see the glowing red light of Rudolph's nose.

One year I asked my mom "Why does Santa's Sleigh make that same noise of the planes dad works on?"

Well quick thinking - "Santa can't fit all of the toys into that tiny sleigh. So he uses a herk, the plane that daddy fixes."

"And what about Rudolph then?"

"Well, he is the co-pilot."

Made complete sense to me.

I had figuered it all out years later. But it is still a fond memory.

Come on over.

We have a friend whose line of work with the government allows him to purchase specific "non-civilian" guns.

In the event of zombie apocalypse - you will find me at his home.

His latest purchase a Barret M107 .

Somewhere on youtube there is a video of a noob hollering into a prop. Sound check.

I do not know if it is/was taken down. But it goes on for about five minutes.

If anyone plans on heading back there - stop by

#7, Lane 35W. 5th st.

Wu Chuan West Rd.

Taichung.

And snap a few pics for me.

Would love to see what our house looks like. If it still exists. ? :/

EDIT - I have a question for anyone that was in the 374TAW. But I do not believe I can publicly post it. It is in regards to an exercise in 1976. That I have a question about.

Wow. That is pretty snappy.

This is what I scrapped together with the leftover Halloween lights I had

A warm and happy Christmas and wealthy New Year to those of you who are currently serving and have served.

And everyone else. :p

BUMP

found this today

Good to see that it is still going.

Back when we lived in the PI - I recall Clark had a toy drive for something similar. I remember donating some of my favorite toys. I had wondered back then if the kid who would receive it would treasure and love those toys as much as I had.

That taught me compassion for those less fortunate.

This has long been in the photo album. It brings back many memories for myself.

Forgot to share it last year. This year I remembered.

It was originally published in the Philippine Flyer, which was the base paper for Clark.

I want to say the date it was published is either in 1975 or 1976.

T'was the Night Before Christmas

Adapted by Barri E. Burrows

T’was the night before Christmas

In my Philippine hut.

Not a creature was stirring,

Not even the mutt.

The medyas were hung from the mesa with care

In hope that St. Nicholas would soon be there.

The children perspired on their open air beds,

While dreams of air conditioning danced in their heads.

And Ma in her bata, and I in my barong

Were sleeping and dreaming of times by gone.

When out in the garden there rose such a clatter

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

I raced to the window, and then being dumb,

Pried open the shutters, and banged up my thumb.

The moon on the crest of the newly planted rice

Reflected in the water and made me look twice.

You just won’t believe what I’m going to say,

I saw eight carabaos pulling a sleigh.

With a little old driver so lively and quick.

I knew it just had to be Philippine Nick.

More rapid than Rabbit Bus Drivers they came,

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name,

“Now Elena, now Felipe, Now Roberto and Baby,

On Maria, on Jorge, on Ricardo and Lucy.

To the top of the roof, to the top of the wall,

Step lightly on the fronds, and dash away all.”

And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof.

The shuffling and stomping of each heavy hoof.

As I drew in my head and was turning around,

Down the bamboo drain-pipe St. Nick came with a bound.

He was dressed in a barong, and there on his feet,

Were handmade sandals, a holiday treat.

A bag of kakanin he had flung on his back

And a gay-flowered blusa stuck out of his sack.

Saying “Mabuhay” to all, he went to his work.

He filled all te medias, then turned with a jerk.

And laying a finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod up the drain-pipe he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team he gave a whistle,

And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle.

Then I felt someone shake me, and heard my son say,

“Gising na, gising na, Papa. It is now Christmas Day!!

Maligayang Pasko to all.

BUMP - because it is Friday

Now I'm off of this thread and going to do something a bit more worthwhile like figuring out how to get that seventh dead Cuban hooker into the trunk of a Grand Marquis.

Dan

You already filled the glovebox right?

Some ideas sound really good when you come up with them while drinking....

I have always wondered why people do that.

Boeing making their own version of a herk to replace it. Let's see how that worked out...Boeing YC-14.

IMO - I do not think this is a death knell for the Herk.

I beleive what you have there is not a Globemaster, but a C-133 Cargomaster.

operator error - I forgot to include the globemaster when I was trying to work around that four image per post limit. And forgot to edit that first post to reflect that.

Tried to get Pima to take EC-130E 62-1818 before it rolled into the Boneyard and lost it's wings. They wanted nothing to do with it. It had a lot more history than the two Herc's currently on display - Vietnam, ABCCC, Desert One, Desert Storm, Bosnia, etc., etc., and it was stationed at DM. They still weren't interested...

I did bring this up to one of the "docents" there. They got a little testy. I decided not to pursue it as I had already inquired as to "How come the Southeast Asia display is so small?"

BTW - You shouldn't expect too much from me.

"You are only allowed the use of four images..blahblah".I found a work around

Went to Arizona over the holdiay. Went to Pima museum. Was kind of a sad sight to see what had become of the few herks and the fairchilds they did have on display. Did not arrive in time to go out and take the graveyard tour.

Thought I would share the pics - so if any of you plan on going out there, you can save yourself a little time if you are going there to see herks. There was a very very small display about aircraft in Southeast Asia, and the role they played. No mention of CCK or PI. Small teeny tiny mention of the herk. Down on the bottom corner it was "planes utilized in Southeast Asian...c130 Hercules, on display outside". There was a zippo lighter with Blind Bat log on it. And a helmet with "The Dog" painted on the side of it. So that kind of gave me a little joy.

But most of the focus is on modern warfare planes, and aircraft that are only famous, because they were in a movie.

So here are a few of the pics of herks, fairchild, a globemaster and the strange YC14 by Boeing, on display outside.

While I do think it is still labeled as a matter of convenience - as in -"There. I have completed my drawing, and it is off to the printer's. Dang. Looks like I forgot to number my diagram. Better hurry up."

If this image is from the ditching section, could the numbers refer to the order of preference for exiting the aircraft?

Mike

When I used to have to conduct fire evac with kids - I would use "the big words" for all of the escapes. I realized I would have to come down to their level of intelligence, when they kept saying "you mean 1, 5,3, 2..."

Five was the roof hatch. They labeled it five, because that was the one that would be the least likely to ever be used and the hardest to access. (Unless the bus was on it's side)

(But now they know it as roof hatch, instead of number five or "santa's hatch")

Squawk ticket from me to the mechanic today. This morning it was a whole 9°f this morning. I am not a treetop flyer. But squawk tickete have become a game between myself and the mechanic.

"Defroster not working. Frost working, no problem."

reply on ticket

"Sent frost home for the day. Told defrost to stop slacking."