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The 8.5 PSI pressure switches that provide the "Low Press" indication on the fuel panel are actually on the engines just past the fuel heater/strainer. They provide indication of not only an empty tank but also of possible contamination of the fuel heater/strainer whereas the switches at the external and aux tanks provide only an indication of an empty tank.

Sorry fellas. I wasn't trying to be a troll with my post pointing out the disparity between the altimeter and cabin pressure controller setting. It was only a humorous observation. And oh btw... I'm pretty sure that when the controller is in the differential mode it is controlling pressure at 15.18 not 15.16. :-)

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..

Hopefully that pic of the pressure controller wasn't taken at 310 because the pressure controller should have been set somewhat higher than that if so. :-). 290 is the highest for me. Not too bad in an e-model. We wanted to go to 310 but ATC said no.

I'm not sure they were ever refurbished, they were just low time wings. The B never got to live long enough to wear out the wings, from what I understand.

Trust me, they got some serious work done on them before they went into the Polish birds. Been watching it happen for the last couple of years.

That thing has a new center wing box on it, along with dual INU, APN241 LPCR, and many many more high dollar mods. I used to have a power point that showed all the mods, but I can't find it.

Not that one. It was a loaner (1299 from RA I think) until they get thier CWB aircraft completed. BTW, the CWB that are going in the aircraft that were sold to them arent new. They are refurbished '58 model wing boxes.

Used it in '99 when I went

Yep, almost every sloping longeron has a gash in it from somebody screwing this up and trying to fix it without any understanding of how the system works. Provided you have power on the aircraft this is an easy fix, go to 3N or 6N and take the ramp control switch to raise. If you don't you just need to put the manual knob in 4 and somehow restrain the ramp from coming up until the locks retract. I've used chocks or a couple of fat guys to provide the necessary resistance.

I found a ramp out of seqence today on a gunship...was some good training wiith a couple 3 levels to show them how to get the locks to retract and back in seqence. I have seen the outcome of someone raising the ramp with those locks extended as well not a good site to see.

Ramp open with locks extended is easy to fix. Put the manual control knob in a nuetral position, 3N or 6N, turn on the aux pump and take the ramp control switch to raise. Providing the wiring is correct, the locks will retract before the ramp raises. I check that function on every FCF preflight. The book doesn't call for that check but then again it doesn't have me check the ramp lock bellcrank switch on the door warning system either but I do anyway and have found lots of them malfunctioning.

Lets say that the ramp is in the ADS position and the knob is in the proper position when you approach it (3N) and you rotate it backwards (counterclock-wise) as soon as you hit position 5 the ramp locks are going to extend. Now you got the ramp sequence control valve out of rig with the doghouse linkage, and your stuck with the ramp in the ADS position with the locks extended. Not always an easy job to fix and not a quick way to make friends with the A/R troops and aircraft DCC. Just follow the T.O. and all will be well.

Welcome home Heros. May we never forget.

We do "stuff" to planes :-)

Dam, what did they do to that airplane? Sure didn't look like that at Elemendorf.

of better days for 0500 during it's Det 4 days.

Another Hero finally comes home.

Another Hero returns home... finally!

WOW! Did they fix that or cut it up on the spot?

Railrunner130 is right -- no TOLD data. The Il-76 is one of my favorite Soviet airplanes -- even flew in one once. If you take a close look at the landing gear, it looks like it was built by John Deere. The crews really abuse the airplanes and they just keep flying. Of course, a bottle of vodka is usually part of the catering -- seriously!

Check out these pics of an Il-76 that landed at Sharjah (I think).

Don R.

Prelim is on AFSAS if anybody is interested. Not much there but interesting nonetheless.

Short answer.... NOPE! Out of limits is out of limits. What you might do in an actual contingency situation and what you do for a JA/AAT are two completely different things. Weve all been told throughout our flying careers that "safety is paramount", there are sometimes where that isn't really true but am I willing to risk my a$$ for a training mission....? again, NOPE!

Might as well get used to it. Our fat-cat congressmen could care less about seniors/retirees.

Vote him out

Any yet we still practice these formation drops to this day. You would think that we would have learned after Vietnam that they leave everyone from about #3 back in a world of hurt. I know there has been some movement towards more tactical formations but that certainly isn't what the Army wants. Trouble is, the days of unlimited funds and disposable airplanes is long since over. jmho.

Funny, I know a Tommy Lee (Not the drummer) that was in the 50th just 4 years ago. I'm guessing it aint the same guy.

Oh, retired Pete is just jackin' with us. He is just rubbing it in that he is a Mr. and I'm not. I have orders Pete, and they aint PCS orders. Pretty soon I will have forgotten what a Note, Warning or Caution is too.

I believe the Caution is there but I've never seen a substep to check the rudder boost pressure during the after takeoff checklist in any of the Air Force Flight Manuals for models I've flown.

Here are a couple more. The first one is flying over Mt. Etna. The second is on a final leg home after a Germany Delta Ops/SEEB deployment before and after 9-11. Our dumba$$ squadron commander made us all wait at Westover for the last of the stragglers to get there so we could all arrive back at Pope as a formation. Cool idea but most of us had to wait for two days for everyone to get there, then another day because we got snowed in. I'll throw that pic on here too. Enjoy. The dog's name was T-Bone, he sat there for the whole deployment.

I miss the days when I worked at Det 4 at the Lockheed facility in Ontario CA. We could go from drawing board to flight test in a matter of days instead of years... When we turned over a plane from mod to home station it had already accumulated multiple test flights and at least one customer acceptance flight.

That's the Big Safari way baby!

Det 4 still lives. It's called the 661 Aeronautical Systems Squadron (AESS not ASS) now.

WOW! That thing is awesome. I'd be afraid to fly it. Wonder how long he has been working on it?