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    Military Humor

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I loved those. My fave was \"Iraqi photos...Wait for flash\"

    The couch one is pretty old. But still funny that someone has a couch upholsted in a floral print that can double as camo.

    Silly woman. The appropriate place for the purse is under the \"bread box\". ;)

    60412 crash in Iraq on 27 June 2008

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Belly flops are all the rage. Didn\'t you know? Everyone\'s doing it.

    When I have a little more time - I\'ll translate and get back to you.

    EDIT - I have returned

    The crash happened in Darwin Australia. If the research I have done is correct. That belly flop was the original and the one in Iraq is the copy cat. Because the only infos I could find date back to 2000

    DAILY BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL 18 FEB 2000

    **UNTAET Cargo Plane Forced to Emergency Landing; No Injuries Reported

    Some of you may have seen the footage, but prior to the Secretary- General\'s arrival, a United Nations C-130 aircraft with 29 passengers plus crew onboard, landed on its belly today at Darwin\'s airport but there were no injuries. The plane had left Dili at 6:30 a.m. and was forced to make an emergency landing on its belly when its left wheel failed to activate. This is the only United Nations Mission (UNTAET) aircraft in operation on that route between Darwin and Dili -- the Mission’s main route of supply. A plane is expected to replace this C-130 by Wednesday.

    MX Phrase of the day...

    in C-130 Technical

    Posted

    While I have zero experience, I have been guilty of writing a few cryptic squawk tickets, at my job, in the past. :blush:

    I am inclined to say spar because of the word pillar.

    But this is a guess. If it were an international, the solution would be to drill a hole into the metal to stop the crack from continuing, and just wait for the recall notice to be sent out.

    from 2005 - All Female Crew

    in C-130 Historical

    Posted

    BobMaine wrote:

    Hmmm, wonder if there was a \"line\" at the potty in the ramp area?

    \"We\" generally travel in pairs to the toilet. Where \"we\" would gossip about one of the others in our little clique.

    The loadies look like sisters.

    sorry about the \"h\" thing. I was working on translating something...it was total operator error. I clicked submit before proofing.

    I had thought that\'62 would make it an E? I was hesitant to put it down, but the article said...

    And we all know that everything on the internet is true. :P

    60412 crash in Iraq on 27 June 2008

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I got this in my email to. But did not post it. It is just one of those things that everyone gets, but no one says anything about. The elephant sitting in the middle of the room.

    Great images though. Great that there were no injuries.

    Except for the plane though :( *sniffle*

    EDIT - I think it is pretty safe to say that it can be shared with the world. I found the dismantle job posted on youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xxPHStprk

    Pic \'o the Week

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    TalonOneTF wrote:

    This is all from memory---I wasn\'t directly involved, but followed what was going on...

    Lockheed-Ontario modified two brand new Hercs as hospital ships for Saudi. One was supposed to be just for the King (back in the 70\'s or 80\'s), who had a heart problem. The airplane was equipped with a full cardiac operating room, and intensive care recovery room. An APU was built in to the aft part of one of the external tanks for power and air conditioning.

    The second airplane also had an operating room, ICU for six, a triage in the back-end, and a roll-on/roll-off Mercedes ambulance. This airplane also had a weird extendable/retractable radio antenna on top of the fuselage that was to be used to communicate telemetry for the medical instruments on-board.

    According to my father the king would fly (not himself but you get it)they would fly into the desert and give the Bedouin medical care.

    I included an image of one of the medical beds. That went out with the lockheed newsletter/flyer thing that was sent to me. His handwriting is \"MS 10 Jeddah\" it may not be the right image. [img size=782]http://herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/scan0011.jpg

    jrkaegi wrote:

    Saudi\'s own the aircraft.In 1988 the tires where weather crack, and the Saudi thinking don\'t fly why change.

    What do you expect from people who run out of gas, leave their mercedes on the side of the road and go get a new car... :P

    Off Topic : AF Mil photos gone? poof?

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I had gone to look for an image that I had seen sometime back. I had thought it was here, but it was not. So I figured it was at the Air Force\'s photos \"site\"

    The Air Force had some extraordinary, high def images of some ..just about every aircraft they use.

    http://www.af.mil/photos/

    And it is not just the main one. It is also the individual air bases \"sites\" that are missing.

    When did I miss this going off line?

    Military Humor

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    This was tucked away in the back of my father\'s file.

    At first I was mortified, because I had thought maybe this was my father\'s performance report for someone else. But as I

    read on I figured it out.

    V. Comments of reporting official (Be factual and specific. Add any comments which increase the objectivity of the rating)

    FACTS AND SPECIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS: Sargent Cook has been a good troop. He ain\'t never been in no trobel a toll to me or

    nobody else in this here mechun. He has a heep of times vollenteered for jobs that was not even his\'n. A few days ago,

    he was an instument an a big help in fixin a airplane that done broke. A bunch of men was trying to fix it and they coodn\'t

    get it to do what the pilot sed it was doing. So Sargeant Cook went out and chek the work order and tail number of the

    airplane, and told them that they was working on the worng one. This is a tipical egsample of Sargeant Cook\'s high degree

    of teknicle nolledge and trublehunting abilities. Another egsample of his fine deminstration of exallent qualitye, was the

    incident when one of his men was drunk and gone for three days, he done his work for him.

    STRENGTHS: Sargeant Cook has reel powerful hand grip. Loads scrap iron on trucks with no difficullties, loaded one

    (a anvil) that I knoed waid 200 lbs. He also helps unload beer of the truck for the NCO clubs.

    RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENT AREAS: Sargeant Cook is an awstandin man except when he is drunk. he come in the gait doin bout

    70 mles an hour one day and tore down the orderly room. He was fortunary that he didn\'t brake his neck. He is good

    with a saw an hammar and he ought to have a lettaer of commodation for a owstandin job he done for this owtfit fixing the

    orderly room back. he is a good noncomshand oacifer.

    SUGGESTED ASSIGNMENT: Assin him to remote duty. he ain\'t never got along with wirmen. He brawt a woman out a while back,

    and they got stoned over at the annex and started fightin over who was gonna buy the next round. Anyways her husbin come

    in then (just back from TDY in VietNam) and he got in the fite two. So Sargeant Cook had then both throwed out of the club

    for creatin a disturbance. They faut outside for about 30 minits befor the OD and so SP\'s showed up and tride to trow off

    base. She broke the lutenant\'s arm and run down the street and got away. She also throwed a rock at another SP by the

    maingait and when the SP tried to arrest her sherun over him with her car. Rite now her base drivin privilage is revoked,

    her husbin is in jail, and the lutenant and the SP are doin well, and Sargeant Cook is demistratin owtstandin inishyative

    by vollentarilly fixin the SP shak by the main gait, which was damages prity good one nite when some crazy woman tride to

    kill the SP inside of it who was callin for help.

    VI REPORTING OFFICIAL

    I do not concer with the riter. there is a lot of mispleed words, however, I will sine it rather that take disiplinary

    axion since this report is overdoo.

    VII INITIAL INDORISING OFFICIAL

    Sich rittin is a disgrass to the Air Fors. I think the gentelmain that rote it shude be eliminated from the curvis.

    Interesting paint

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    Wow - er..a little late to the party but..this may sound odd if you have not figured out the mystery stripes.

    In Iron Man there is a c130 similar to that. The stripes are what caught my eye.

    Could that be a pic of the one used in the movie?

    You might be an airplane mechanic if ....

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    DC10FE wrote:

    This has been around a while, but a friend sent it to me this morning & I think it needs to be read again.

    Don R.

    YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN AVIATION MECHANIC IF YOU HAVE EVER WORKED AT OR DONE AT LEAST 1 OF THE FOLLOWING..........

    You have a better store\'s supply in your coveralls or tool box than store\'s does.

    It is better to have and not need it, than need it and not have it.

    DC10FE wrote:

    You\'ve ever considered a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to be a sandwich off of the roach-coach in one hand and a wrench in the other

    You know what a roach-coach is.

    And you like the food.

    Mmmmm Pink hotdogs. And doughnuts with \"sprinkles\".

    DC10FE wrote:

    You\'ve ever said, \"That nav light burned out when you turned it on this morning sir.\"

    It was like that when I got here. Pin the blame on the new guy.

    DC10FE wrote:

    You\'ve ever used a wheel chock as a hammer.

    Only because you misplaced the wrench when you were using it as a prybar.

    DC10FE wrote:

    While watching commercials on TV, you look for tail numbers on your birds.

    I actually did this on a re-run of 24 last night :laugh:

    305 was the number.

    DC10FE wrote:

    You can\'t get through a trip without finding an ATM.

    You should know where they are in relation to the bars.

    DC10FE wrote:

    Used dikes to trim your finger nails.

    And used a matchbook cover or a zipper to file the nail.

    Military Humor

    in C-130 General

    Posted

    I can only recall a few from memory.

    I think these have been around forever and a day though.

    problem- #2 Propeller seeping prop fluid

    solution- #2 Propeller seepage normal - #1 #3 and #4 propellers

    lack normal seepage

    problem- Number three engine missing

    solution- Engine found on right wing after brief search

    problem- Evidence of leak on right main landing gear

    solution-Evidence removed

    problem- Something loose in cockpit

    solution- Something tightened in cockpit

    This one came in an email:

    Some U.S. F-15 Eagle jet fighter pilots on a cross country flight came across a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport plane on their same heading. Somewhat bored, happy to have some company, and proud of their Eagles, these F-15 jocks engaged the C-130 pilot in conversation, bragging that they had the better job and the better airframe to fly.

    The C-130 pilot was use to this type of talk from fast moving fighter and attack pilots but insisted that he had the better job.

    \"Oh, yeah? Watch this!,\" one F-15 pilot said.

    And the C-130 pilot watched the F-15s surge ahead of him, lite their afterburners, soar, go inverted, fly around him, surge ahead again, come back, and just really show off the Eagle\'s superior speed and maneuverability.

    \"Impressed, huh?,\" one of the F-15 pilots asked.

    \"No, not really,\" the C-130 pilot said. \"Watch real closely and I\'ll show you what I can do and why my job is better than yours.\"

    So, these F-15 pilots watched the C-130 . . . and watched, and watched, and watched, . . . and watched some more, for about ten minutes.

    But, they did not see anything different about the C-130. No change in heading. No banking. No change in speed. The C-130 just continued to drone on, level, on the same heading.

    \"Excuse me, Mr. C-130 pilot, but we\'ve been watching you now for about ten minutes, and you haven\'t shown us anything new. What\'s up? When are you going to show us what you can do?\"

    \"I just did.,\" was the C-130\'s pilot\'s reply.

    \"You did? Come on. Stop BSing. We\'ve got to break off soon. We were all watching you carefully and none of us saw you do a darn thing. What did you do, if anything?\"

    The C-130 pilot said, \"I put it on autopilot and went to the bathroom.\"

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