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8 hours ago, Retired Talon F/E said:

I think your crew chief is a wannabe or smoking something.  I did a HALO from 32K over Spain in a Talon back in the 80's and let me tell you it was no pic nic.  I calculated and we took off with 26k on fuel and I can tell it was the worst flight I was ever on.  2 no-drops with all the prebreathing and the old helmets it was miserable.  At that altitude you had to get clearance from the Doc. and he with a med tech had to be on board.   61k, now that's a joke.

Absolutly not my crew chief,I totally agree with you.

I don't know if I should laugh or be amazed.A fellow on the crew chief site said he was on a C-130E that was at 61K doing HALO drops.I questioned it and he affirmed that was what he said.I spent quite a few years on Herks,The best altitude I was ever at on one was during Apollo13 support off of Samoa we were at 37500.and literally hanging on the props.Anyone ever seen 61k in a C-130?

When I was at Goose Bay Labrador in 1966 we had an H model (65-976) that went into a flat wing spin,they were doing power on stalls,at 10k and recovered it at 2500 ft,the w/w doors had popped out in to the air stream and were ripped to the top of the w/w,.Lockheed sent a team to look at it,the "G" meter was pegged in both directions.They told us to fix it and fly it.From then on it required 2 1/2 degrees left trim to fly straight and level.

Great to finally hear about this.My thanks to you for a job well done!!

I remember that well.

I was also at McGuire in the 1613th Oms dock 36.the navy was bad about taking an acft wit h red X open on them because they never read the 781's.I was there from the start of the 1613th when we had no acft and roll call 4 times a day.Col Hester was an ass.

I was the crew chief on this acft in 1966-1967 at Goose Bay Labrador and Pease AFB N.H. She had a dragon painted on the left side of her nose (it was removed in 1968).I have never heard od the name Maverick before.I was also the crew chief when she was on loan to the 79th ARRS on Guam.WE were on the Apollo 13 recovery mission in Samoa.She is a great aircract and was flown on several occasions on a black initial.She was a HC-130H at the time.

I remember "Turkey "well.We probaly did cross paths.

I was also at Hurlburt in 72-74,was on the line and then TODO to get it in shape for IG.

I have several,was crew chief of 65-0978 and 65-0985 69-71

I was on Guam with the guy who was the crew chief on the acft,the guy that took it was an asst,I can't remember his name been way too long ago.But he said the general concensus,since the fighters were scrambled,was that it was a shoot down.

I was in the 79th ARRS on Guam from 69-71,we lost no birds during that time frame

No problem Dutch,just clearing up any misunderstanding ,I worked both systems,easy to get confused after a few years lol

Not what I said guys, I said the recovery sys that was shown at the start was used for air to air recovery,The Fulton sys was used for grd to air recovery.

That recovery system is for inflight recovery of satillites.854 had a Fulton recovery sys. which was for ground to air recovery.here is a video

We had her at Goose Bay Lab.54th ARRS,was a decent flying bird.