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A little girl was playing in the garden when she spotted two spiders mating. "Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?" she asked. "They're mating." her father replied. "What do you call the spider on top, Daddy?" she asked. "That's a daddy long legs." her father answered. "So, the other one is a mommy long legs?" the little girl asked. "No," her father replied. "Both of them are daddy long legs." The little girl thought for a moment, then took her foot and stamped them flat. "Well, we're not having THAT sort of shit in our garden."

DFC- Heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight. Navy Cross- Extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force and going beyond the call of duty. MOH- "[Conspicuous] gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against any enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party." The DFC is certainly not the appropriate medal. Maybe "they" decided that he wasn't actually "in combat" at the time, and that is all they could give him. They sold Lt. Zilberman and themselves short with that decision. May he rest in peace and be remembered for his duty and unselfish act.

Damn, yer gonna miss the bugs and humidity!!! NOT. Have fun up there, and good luck with the house.

I've never heard of such a thing, but I'm just a pointy head.

This pretty much explains the downlock system, so yes, there is one.

One of the major problems of the old box antenna (besides removing and installing, was that it had a copper strip around the outside edge that mated with the aluminum. Not good. If anyone still has the old antennas, I would get the newer style from AMARG. The panels can be made, but they are a pain in the ass since they are structural members.

I thought we just removed those pretty much permanently. A new commander, a new idea?? Go see Luis over in the AFETS office, ISO dock, and put him to work on it. He can get to the drawings if they are in the T.O.s. He just got to go to the Engine/Prop conferenece, so he needs something productive to do...

Hell Hole, yes. I replaced (soldered in) the large connector on an APN59 synchronizer in a black AC-130 Gunship in Thailand in the summer. It was hell.

Aren't those H2-1/2's? I don't know, I never got to work on anything new... The flush mount was installed on 84s and up, except 87-00157, #5121, whatever that bastardized thing is.

They turned it on for 7 minutes before they kicked our maintainer off the aircraft to do some "Tactical Stuff". Of course, it worked for that 7 minutes. Then one of the crew said, "Yea, this plane's been doing this for years." Very helpful.

That was a good read, I had no idea she was a nurse. While some of the entertainers that visit war zones or the hospitals may not go to that extreme, many of them do it for the troops. My wife ran the USO at the Ramstein CASF (Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility) for the ambulatory patients returning from the desert. Many of the entertainers that came through were extremely grateful and went beyond what they were supposed to do. Some of the best were Cher, Lt Dan (Gary Sinise), Kid Rock, Wilmer Valderrama (Fes from That 70's Show), the NHRA drivers. Actually, there are too many to list.

When the wings were upgraded the trailing edges off the old wings were installed on the new wingbox. This should have included all lines to the pods.

Avionics wise: H2 has FD-109 flight director, FCS-105 Autopilot, APN59 unless modified, they did have GPWS but those were all modified to GCAS, and they still have long wire HF antennas.

Yea, they pretty much went thru the stuff in your 107 reply. It flies tomorrow, hopefully with a maintainer on board. The last flight it didn't start until 2 hours after takeoff. I was wondering if they had done anything at all when it began, like using the HF, running the Aux pump, etc. Any slight movements in hydraulic pressure gauges? I think the TTU-205 idea is OK if the problem is just in ALT HLD, but since it's doing it all the time?? I want them to try it in Speed on Pitch mode too. I doubt that they use that mode very much.

"Our group was hauling abound BH and his show one year when the lady headliner was Racquel Welch. She was such a bitch everyone wanted to carry Less Brown and the band instead of Bob and Raquel." Sounds like J-Lo's USO trip a few years back.

I went to a Buger King in Alaska, asked for a medium drink. She says "For here or to go?" I say, "Just pick one, what difference does it make?" She says, "Because I have to know. Here or to go?" Funny thing here in Georgia if they don't have a digital register. If the total of a sale is $10.51, and you give them a $20 bill and 51 cents, you may as well have given them a Rubik's Cube. Invariably, they give you more money back than they should.

We've got our own aircraft that has the same problem now. Ours is doing it without ALT HLD selected as well. Haven't changed out the pack yet though.

G-Man (Mr. Gemarino) is the AFETS there at Dyess. If there was a problem like that, he would know about it. 461-4692

The brakes were changed out via TCTO 1C-130-778. It involves new wheels, tires, brakes, hoses and tubes. No changes to the strut.

A 1,000 mile range aircraft with an 600 or so mile trip... Sorry, but I always check my gas gauge before I leave on a long drive. There are always those extenuating circumstances though. Still very tough to see anyone lost.

Trying to go through our wiring digrams is useless, since USAF aircraft have the ARN147 VOR, Self Contained Navigation System, MLS, GCAS, etc. With the 51V() receiver installed, you must have a commercial model aircraft, at least I am guessing. ?? The only diagrams I can find for this year group in JEDMICS are totally screwed up, Is there anything else that taps off of the GS signals, like a GPWS system? The FDC could be loading it down, but it's hard to believe both went bad at the same time. Of course, if something fried that circuit in one of them, and they were swapped, it could have fried the other one. Have you tried installing both flight directors on another aircraft to see if they work? That's one way you could rule them out. I wouldn't put any new ones into that aircraft if it is damaging them. Like I said, it's hard for me to get a grip on how the system is laid out if I don't have a good diagram. I think you can discount the antenna system. BTW, if the antenna cable is hooked up directly to test set, you should be able to dial in at least 60db of attenuation before the GS warning flag starts coming into view. I thought maybe there were dampening capacitors for the GS up/down signals in your NIS like we have in our pre '74 NIRP panels, but I guess you don't.

Since I have no idea what model this aircraft is, it's hard for me to help. You have no information in your profile. So far, I only know that this is a 1978 or newer aircraft because you mention FCS-105. Does it have analog instruments? What is the specific tail number or Lockheed serial number? The input to the FDC could be causing a problem if the inputs to the indicator are tapped off form those lines. 1. Does this aircraft have SCNS? 2. Is the G/S bug on the HSI or the ADI? I may be able to help you out, but all the C130s are different. Please supply more information.

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Yes, and thank dog we are on the cutting edge of technology and got a 8"x8"x24" 5 channel GPS receiver that uses a ridiclulous antenna and preamp setup. Well, if it was good enough for the Navy to get rid of it, it's good enough for us.

The USAF bought a buttload of Bendix-King handheld GPS/VHF hand helds back in the early 90's. I think it was the KLX100. There was a donkey dick antenna made for it to go in the sextant port. I had one myself that they gave me to verify bad antennas, but I liked to use it more for VHF radio troubleshooting. Someone felt that they needed it more than me.