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    Happy Birthday Mt.crewchief

    in General

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    Happy Birthday to you Ken! I sure hope this year turns out better than the last two years. I sent Chris a personal e-mail on his birthday, the 7th and he replied back to me yesterday by the same. I don't get on this website too often anymore, so checked it this morning and found your message to Chris and myself. I have got you by 3 years, was 79 yesterday, and Chris is older than you by only a year. I guess it must be all this good clean living that keeps us alive.

    Have a great day today and I hope you have many more to come.

    Lee

    Trim indicators

    in C-130 Technical

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    It's been a long time since I worked on a C-130, but have some info on the trim tab indicators for an E Model.

    According to the TO 1C-130E-4 (an IPB I do believe), there were three trim indicators on the pilot's main

    instrument panel: Elevator Trim Tab, Figure 83 - Index 26, P/N 8DJ49GBV2

                                 Aileron Trim Tab, Figure 83 - Index 27, P/N 8DJ49GAW2

                                 Rudder Trim Tab, Figure 83 - Index 28, P/N 8DJ49GAY2

    Hope this is some of the info you were looking to find.

    Lockheed Production No. Collection Missing Photos.

    in C-130 General

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    I just posted a picture of 62-1802 in my user gallery. This photo was taken at an open house display at Pease AFB New Hampshire in 1964 or 1965 while I was stationed there. The photo was scanned from an old picture of mine that my sister had in a family photo book. The full sized scan is about 1 Meg and I can e-mail it if anyone is interested.

    I didn't know this!!!

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    Ten miles as the crow flies. I found the arrow at the airport from an internet search and used a satellite map to confirm that it was still there. It was inside a fence around the terminal, so I went inside to inquire if it was OK to go outside the building to take a picture. The fellow I talked with was a pilot and told me about the second arrow as he has seen it from the air. The second arrow was a bonus and is the nicer of the two. I'll bet that not a lot of them are left around.

    I didn't know this!!!

    in General

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    I found two of the concrete arrows in Indiana. One is at the Shelbyville Airport in Indiana and is at 39 degrees 34 minutes 36 seconds North and 085 degrees 47 minutes 58 seconds West. This arrow seems to be missing part of the tail. The other arrow is about 10 miles east-southeast of the airport arrow and appears to be complete. It is located in someone's front yard just off a country road at 39 degrees 32 minutes 25 seconds North and 085 degrees 39 minutes 31 seconds West. Both arrows show up on satellite maps at the coordinates above. Here is a picture of the front lawn arrow.[ATTACH=CONFIG]3650[/ATTACH]

    Lockheed Production No. Collection Missing Photos.

    in C-130 General

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    I don't think I've ever seen an E without pylon tanks installed.

    I agree. I never noticed the absence of external tanks until I had some of my 35mm slides of Tachi, CCK, and Nha Trang transfered to computer files. I have sent three pictures to Bob Daley to fill in the hole in the production number gallery. I mentioned this absence of external tanks on the aircraft to Bob, but another picture of the rear of 64-0556 and 63-7878 sitting together on the PSP in Tachikawa (was not sure why I took this shot, but upon zooming in it is a picture of another C-130 starting take off roll) and in the picture it looks to me like tanks may be installed. External tanks were sometimes removed for access to repair the fuel quantity instrument system wiring and probes. I have another picture of myself working on the external tank of an unknown number aircraft. I will post both of these pictures in my user gallery.

    Lee

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