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Steve1300 wrote:

Elephant ears - raised skin of the ramp that covers the actuator attachement

The elephant ears are the panels on each side of the nose of the fulton recovery herks, the ones you open for access to the radome bolts.

It says in the GE and in the -6 to set tires to a slightly lower pressure for substandard fields, as I\'m sure you all know. It also says to set pressures for the highest takeoff weight of the day. So if you\'re taking off from a concrete runway, then landing on dirt, then coming back to concrete, do you set the tire pressures to the max gross weight for standard fields or for the dirt fields?

Dominion wrote:

The same question can be asked of the current propeller assembly and/or valve housing. I have heard that there is a \"Electronic\" Valve Housing that could replace the analog version currently in service.

This is currently in the testing phase with the NY ANG.

Blackmac_Project wrote:

KC-130F\'s don\'t have external tanks.

Engine MikeB)

Oohhhh I see now. It would have been just like this one;

[img size=150]http://www.aug.edu/~libwrw/vwar/ron1/R1_1965/Shoemake/images/shoe53.jpg

I was just watching Heartbreak Ridge, and at the end when they fly home on the 130 it\'s lacking externals but has pods. I\'ve never seen a herk with pods but not externals. What\'s going on here?

I found this screenshot, but you can\'t see the pods from it;

[img size=150]http://victoryatseaonline.com/war/otherwars/heartbreak/ridge-32.jpg

agarrett wrote:

Hey, Dan dumped all his Shadow brain cells when he became a WombatB)

We got curious about this because of a non UARSSI airplane doing a FARRP.

Art M. called me with the location. Its in the line way up above the SPR panel. Moving it would make sense if that is where the fuselage tank manifold ties in to the refuel/defuel/dump manifold because the offload valve needs to be aft of that.

Now, why its wired the way it is is still a mystery. According to an HC-H dash one it was wired that way before UARSSI.

Someone correct me if I\'m wrong but every other Herk I\'ve checked, if you put the offload switch to open during drain it takes power away from the offload valve relay and the ofload valve will close.

So are you asking why you can open the offload valve with the master switch in drain?

agarrett wrote:

Where is the offload valve on a P model. Is it not in the center dry bay like the others?

Also, any idea why the offload valve is wired different than any other Herk.

PS; Dan Moen wants to know.

On the MC-P it is in the center drybay. I don\'t know how they do it on slicks or Talons. I know that some of the fuel system was modified when they added the pods and fuselage tanks and now a few valves don\'t really match the schematic anymore.

We had another one a few days ago - the crew was doing pilot pro and thought they took a bird on approach. The eng and load got out and looked over the plane at the end of the runway and saw nothing, so they kept flying. After they landed during the thruflight we found a bird that had hit the strut itself and got stuck in a wire bundle in the wheel well.

It\'s that time of year I guess.

US Herk wrote:

One at the 1st - 155K takeoff in the PI took well over 300 counted birdstrikes, lost #1 and #2 decayed to 70% and overtemped, but eventually recovered - needless to say, the crew didn\'t shut it down as they frantically dumped & came back around.

Before I got to my unit we had one plane scare up a bunch of birds during approach. They were all hiding in the grass and on the stripes of the approach end and flew straight up into the plane\'s flight path. They counted 277 bird strikes and had to change 3 engines and several leading edges. Then, and here\'s the best part, they had them all form up and take a MXS group photo in front of it!

Last week one of our planes hit some birds while flying low over the Pacific ocean. It was flying great all week, and now it\'s grounded for a few stupid seagulls.

One tried to skewer itself on the pitot tube and left messy blood all over the nose by the crew door, another bounced off the armpit area and left blood and guts streaked all down the side from near the ATM all the way back to the paratroop door. The third bird went clean through the leading edge on the horizontal stab. [img size=400]http://herkybirds.com/images/fbfiles/images/birdhole1.jpg

Please share your best bird strike stories.

We always do the checks with the dummy bottle when we change rafts and it always checks OK.