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    William or Bill
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    Miranda
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    Restoring vintage aircraft

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    Joined the US Air Force on June 12 1974. Assigned to Dover AFB in April of 75. Crosstrained to C-130E Flight Engineer in April of 78. Assigned to McChord AFB in August 78. Separated in Sept 80. Joined the Reserves the next day. Returned to active duty Jan 83 on the C-141A. Retired Feb 97.
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    Great info. Would have been great if this Curtiss Electric was also used on the A model but you can't win them all. Thanks again. Bill
  2. I recently moved the forward half of an AT-11 to a guy in Yuba City Cal. During our talks as is usual when two old farts get together I told him I had been on C-130’s in the mid 70’s where upon he said he had something I might be interested in. He had just bought out a large inventory of AT-6 parts and when he was clearing out the warehouse the owner said everything goes. In the back of the warehouse was a 11’ long crate the he told my friend was a prop from a C-130. So my friend said he had no use for it and if I wanted it to get it out of his building. We settled on a fair price and I proceeded to try to move the crate. After emergency hernia surgery, I took the crate apart and loaded the blades and the box containing the hub in my truck and small trailer. When I opened the crate there were only three blades in the crate. I knew that the C-130A originally had three bladed props, and thought they were Curtiss Electric. Now I have been told that they might not have been Curtiss but something else. When I got home and unloaded the prop I open the crate and found the shipping document and found out the prop was a Curtiss Electric but it was removed from a C-124C in 1972. My question is does anybody remember what prop the A model had and is there any possibility that this prop might have been used on the A model also. Thanks for any information
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