Dan Wilson

Only scored an 86 Someone please shoot me now, simplest system on the airplane and I boned it - damn. http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=c130-hydraulic-knowledge

I had the wonderful luck to go through Basic survival in Jan-Feb 85, Didn't know show would be that deep:rolleyes: but the Payoff was when I went to water survival at Homestead that June:D I would have done that school three or four times a year if given the choice, para sailing was pretty fun. When I did basic survival I must have been in a different area than you alphacharlie130, don't think cows would have been very comfortable in the deep woods up a mountain (hell I know I wasn't comfortable).

A dual failure, even if both pumps in the system were abex pumps (the higher output of the three brands of pumps) the remaining volume that could cause overpressure would be very small indeed and could be easily overcome with small control corrections. I used to have all the factory numbers that would have let me give you a very specific answer but all my goodie stuff got turned over to the FE section when I had to quit flying.

Yeah but three or four missiles then empty isn't what I would call a warheads on foreheads win, it needs some guns to be truly effective. If you want hellfires, call in a fighter. They carry more and when their empty they can go back to base, refuel and rearm and be back on station before a herk can even get back to base. Hell if you want true overhead, pallatize a 20mm, 25mm,, or 30mm and stick it out the paratroop door, a couple missiles is small thinking that will end up being too little in the end, wait and see. Gary, I know what your saying but my point really has nothing to do with losing HAR capes, it has to do with losing HAR capes for too little return if they just hang three or four hellfires on it. Hell they got predators that can do that.

My memory may be at fault when I said early 73's were E's, maybe all 73's were designated H's but I could swear we had two 73's in the 37TAS when I was there. I would have to dig out my old flight logs to jog my memory but I am sure Bob or some others could chime in on this specific. Dan

Actually Harvest Falcon is the name for the entire AF field kit to include the tents, Air Conditioner, latrines (and don't underestimate those until you spent a year over a oriental bomb site or a ditch) and field kitchen kit.

Kinda sorta wrong. The earliest H models (disregarding the HC-H models) were built in late 73 (early 73 were E models) and all they had -15 Engines and updated outer wings. The wings were updated to take the higher torque and add in water removal system (in lieu of ugh scavange flow pumps) and some other minor systems changes but were not designed for any "extended life" as they were basically the same wings that had been produced since 1964 for HC-H's. Those few 73 "H" aircraft only had those two things to qualify being called H's, actually they should have been called super E's but ...as a matter of fact they have always been called super E's by the operators. Now in 74 the sorta real H model lines started with those other updates (apu, wing divider valve etc). It wasn't until the new center wing boxes that AFSOC developed that the any programed "Extended life" modifications came in to play, up to then it was just R&R to extend aircraft life.

Yep, I thought they all went to DRMO for scrap years ago!! They were always sweet to have on long drones or dragging overseas Dan

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Thats really disappointing. When they said a ro ro weapon system I figured it would be something useful like guns. This is really kind of a worthless system, your losing the capability of refueling planes that carry a large variety of ord for the exchange of mounting what, maybe four hellfires? Waste of money and a waste of a refueler if thats all it is. I sure as hell hope the wombat mod actually involves something you can really kill with. Dan

It went away with the release of a new -1 in 92 (I think), but AFSOC still does them. Personally I liked doing them, get a good look at the mills at power while your still on the ground. Dan

Yep, I know its way out of date but I just couldn't file 13 it:rolleyes:

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Your are correct! Accelerated Structural Wear is the primary reason that Engine Runup Checks were eliminated from the ops checklist, and removed the requirement for slicks to run up all four engines prior to take off. That refers to the accelerated structural wear, about the fuel leak part I am not sure but its possible. Dan

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You got that right, that's probably the one thing that I hate most about the J (even more than the loss of the FE ). If you not looking right at the plane you would think its some pokey little ATR, its just not right. In fact its as wrong as two boys humping I think we should all contact our congressman and demand that any future purchase of J models should require a mod that places loud speakers to broadcast real Herk sounds during ground ops:rolleyes: Seriously, I will never be able to reconcile that odd sound with a Herk. Dan

Hot Day start button, I think your talking A models there. Dan

Uh, hmmm, err, well, err hmmmmmYour right! I cant keep the sequence of mods right in my brain anymore so Thank you for the correction. Actually the re-designation was done for a simpler reason (or more complex, depending on how you look at it) The HC-P/N were changed over to MC-P's so we could draw on the black money available (SOCOM type funding) instead of having to rely on blue money (normal USAF funding); SOFI mod didn't directly cause the designation change.

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Well I will fess up that I am way out of date but before I retired in 04 the T2 fleet had a couple of qualified crews and they were going to pull and store the pods, yeah kinda goofy but what isn't these days. So I could be wrong and maybe they do have a couple T2's dragging around pods then. In some ways it really sucks retiring and being way out of touch with whats happening. Dan

Al Yep,those are the old SF (Sergent Fletcher) pods, guess they decided to change the name. The T2 was fitted with the FRL pods, not the SF pods, only to be promptly removed. Wonder why we spent millions of dollars and well over a decade getting those dodgy things to work right:confused: Well I guess the Wombat uses them so maybe its not a total waste, even though it was a solution looking for a problem. Dan