stoney

I was an FE in the 54th 78-85.

Stoney

In the olden days it was "T" handle first, but the condition lever shuts everything off mechanically, so it was changed.

Stoney

The A was a DC acft. 4 DC generators, 1 on each engine and 2 AC generators, one on #2 & #3. 13 DC busses with the "I" strip (isolated DC bus being the most important, located on 245). The B on up became AC acft.

Stoney

WPAFB to Kef. 1976, landed an A with 3 tank empty lights and very little fuel in #4. How about 13.3 hours on a storm mission in a WC-130H. Had a sore butt after that one!!!

Stoney

Thanks for the answers guys.

The Benson tanks were on WC-130H, which were converted HC-130H with only one tank, due to the Dropsonde operators console. We used JP-4 at that time.

Stoney

Just a few questions. The internal Benson tanks held approx 11,000 pounds? (WC-130H) How many gallons? Also why "Benson", was that the builder? Next, station 245 was measured from where? I seem to remember that it was somewhere in front of the nose. What station were the paratroop doors at? Last, any idea how much hyd fluid was in the utility system at any one time. In motion, not in the resevoir.

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Stoney

Col, me too. The last email I sent came back as not deliverable.

Stoney

Do you know where he went? I went to his place after we retired and went full time RV, and the place was empty.

Stoney

Casey, did you know an FE named Tom Gasper on 022? He was a friend of mine at EDW in the CT-ll, and AC-Uboat days, prior to going to Fla.

Stoney

I still have one from the -9, -7 & -15.

Stoney

We used to be able to see the wreck on T/O, but a typhoon blew the tail over before I left and it was hard to find after that. Our CO wanted our MX folks to cann parts off of it!!!!!!!!

Stoney

54th WRS IFE

1978-1985

Skip my email is [email protected]

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Stoney

Skip

Send it to me, please.

Stoney

Is 572 one of them in Id.?

Stoney

I got a retirement (Civil Service, 418th Test Sq, Edwards AFB.) flight on 572 in July of 2005, 30 years after my first flight in July of 1975 (6512th Test Sq. "Test Ops", Edwards AFB).

Stoney

572 was the first C-130 that I flew on as a Herk FE. It was at Edwards in 1975. That is it in my avatar. Then I flew 571 at WPAFB from 75-78.

Stoney

Skip, it was not me who wanted to do the lakebed surgery, but I was there that day.

Stoney

Hey, Skip. I was on the lakebed with Mr. Fulton for one of the pickups. It was awesome. I was the scheduler for the 6518th, back then. I retired from the 418th in 2005.

Stoney

Casey, I stand corrected, but those came waaaaay after my time on 022.

Stoney

0022 did not have externals on it. I did 3 trips to Europe in the mid 70's from WPAFB with it. 0024 was the one we put the externals on. The test concluded that it was not worth the extra wt/v/climb time and total distance.

Stoney

In the 70's we put external tanks on 0024 and tested them. They held just over 300 gal. each. (about 3600 lbs total fuel.) They used DC pumps and fed fuel to the #2 & #3 tanks. You would go on crossfeed until the externals were empty. The book said approx 90 minutes of fuel. On our first flight from WPAFB to Hollaman AFB it took 89 minutes to empty them.

Stoney

I went to C-7 school there in 1968 (July). Great place, dirt track racing on Sat. nights. Sure wanted to go back, but Bou school moved to Dyess and Herks went to the Rock.

Stoney

That is correct, George. Boy, you keep making me dust of those old brain cells. I guess I\'ll have another beer!!!!

Stoney

Jumper was a C-7 Caribou pilot in Viet Nam.

Stoney

AMEN, George. Enough is enough!!!!!!!

Stoney