M_Wales

I forgot I have a couple of Lars books and see where from the 23rd edition, Langley to the 25th edition, Camp Perry.

Thanks Guys...

I googled Camp Perry, Va. and found this picture.

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Camera & Photographic equipment

Not sure this would be a good idea...

I was looking around awhile back on google earth and noticed that there was a Herk parked out on Camp Perry here in Virginia.

Camp Perry is only a few miles up I-64 from my house here in Newport News and I'm thinking about paying it a visit and trying to get some pictures of it. Now thats if they don't run me off eh!!! May give it a shot this coming weekend.

Anyone know what Tail it is?

Thanks

Mark

jmitch,

I think you have it all wrong. Being a crew chief you 5 (e-model crews) crew dogs were there to fly me to off station parties, bars and brothels in some real nice and not so nice locations all over the world..

WELCOME Bro. There isn't a better career field to be in and learn than the 431XX career field. It seemed the former CCs were very knowledgeable FEs. Not to mention that most of them treat us better. Just always look at every plane you work on as though you and your family were going to fly on the next misson and you will be good to go. I retired from the Red AMU out there myself. Actually was one of the first ones in Red when it was formed.

you have a new and very exciting career ahead of you and kind of jealous I can't do it again. LOl

Welcome aboard.

Ret. Tsgt Billy Fason

Former Red AMU Equipment manager, Resource Advisor, and general Radar Oriley of the Unit. LOL

Billy.. How the hell are ya? Long time...

Welcome to the board...

I spent the last 15 years of my 24 at Little Rock and enjoyed it.. I was in all the sqaudrons but the 61st, and retired from the 53rd in 2005. I really enjoyed crewing the old girls, but never once wated to be a FE. Good luck and learn all you can...

I would love to do it all over again if I could..

Mark Wales

Thanks Casey for all the work you put into getting the site back up. I was beginning to think it was gone forever

I remember seeing this many, many years ago... Loved it then and love it now...

But as far as the Aircraft bite goes. Around Herks I think that most of us have been bitten by the main gear outer door support bracket more than anything else.. I can still feel that thing digging into my back from time to time..

Yeah, that was after my time at LRF. Left there in May '82. Sure was nice flying those. Had to keep a lot of students from over torquing them on T&Gs. Extra pubs added to the book bag weight but not much.

I was at Pope when they left to be modded, but I caught up with 6 of them at Sembach in 1987-1990.

LRF, school sqd, '81-'82 timeframe, 10 hour nav OW - 42,500' on the way back to LRF after nav training had finished. At least the co-pilot had his helment and O2 on, per the regs. Cabin alt, hmmmmm, ah, 10,000'. Can't remember the tail number but it probably was one of the '73 H models.

Wow thats high in a herk... Shortly after that those Super E's/H's from Little Rock became EC-130H's...

M wales,

What was the cabin altitude at that time?!!! :cool:

Sorry, but I can't remember. That was during the summer ROTE in 1986.

FL330, over Iraq nonetheless. Needless to say, extending flaps a little bit helped us get up there!

We had to burn a lot of fuel and step to that 31k alt.

How high have you flown in a Herk?

31,000 ft.. Highest I've been in a herk, but I'm sure a lot of you have been higher. This was on our way to Andoya, Norway..

15" mercury. Nice and tight for a 1963 model..

I crosstrained onto Herks in 1984 and seen a couple at Pope and later at Little Rock.. Never Found one...

Found this on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LOCKHEED-C-130-CENTER-CAP-HORN-BUTTON-REPLICA-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem2c508d127aQQitemZ190329983610QQptZMotorsQ5fAviationQ5fPartsQ5fGear

I forgot all about the Alert Pad chow hall when I was in SAC @ Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan pulling alert with KC-135A models. They did have some good grub in the hole.

I don't miss heating water, dumping water and refilling water one bit on those A models..

Best CHOW HALL would have to be Goose Bay!!

Ah yes I remember Goose it was pretty good.. We had to go to a German AB in Munich and they had a great chow hall, that even served beer at lunch.

The early birds were great at the little chow hall just off of the flight line in Incerlik, Turkey.. mmmmmmm

My P38 is in my puzzle box.

Great Job... Thank you...

I live and work in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia and I see a lot of vets from WWII to present day and really enjoy talking with them and listining to what they have to say....

They are our National Treasure

Ladder scary yes but not as scary as have to use an over the wing sling to hang a motor.

Agree... We were TDY somewhere and had to change an engine and the crane was down for main. and they showed us one of those scary slings...

Our team was flown into a German AFB near Munich back in the late 80's when my EC-130H landed with a prop problem. We ended up changing the prop using a very old (I would say WW2 era) crane that scared the %^^& out of us..

Myself I hated those troop door ladders we used at Sembach on our EC-130's..

Welcome to the site, I'm also new here.

I was to young for Vietnam (turned 50 June 24th), but love reading all the story's everyone tells. What is really cool is that most of the aircraft all you older guys flew are still in service and as a crew chief on herks for 21 years I more than likely worked on or even crewed those very same aircraft.

The newest herk I ever worked were 1973 super E's (EC-130H compass call)But the coolest thing is that you guys were able to play with those herks when they were new...

We had some little MAC patches made while TDY to Korea. Loved the chicken wings on the patch. Mine is now in my shadow box with other patches..

Would have rather stayed MAC then to change to AMC.

Thanks Dan..

When I first crosstrained from KC-135's to herk's at Pope I heard the story and was told of the hard stand being haunted at Mildenhall. For the life of me I can't remember that hard stand number... But on my first rotation thats the hard stand I was parked on, but never had anything strange happen...

Anyone remember that hard stand number?

A lot of good ones here guys... But here are a couple you missed...

We sent a noob on a mission in the books to find the Spring Tension on the Exceptional Release. He spent hours digging and never found it...

Send them back to the shop for the keys to the plane that you had forgotten.

Not C-130

While on KC-135A's I was a noob, but they got a buddy of mine to look into the water dump port and tell them when the lights came on. They hit the water dump switch and rolled him back to the blast fence..