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That you Festus? Condolences for your brother

Best seat in the house! Now some do gooder will probably publish some regulations against it.

That was a painful video to watch.

That sucks

New paint scheme? That could be dressed up nice with some contrast markings.

RIP Bob, You will be missed.

And the old girl is pretty much Marine proof!

Christmas weekend 1982 got hit with the duty section and was given a back to back wash-rack to stay busy with. Kinda took the bloom off of my holiday spirit. Merry Christmas all!

The syntax reads like it was translated form English to Thai and back to English.

I know some of those faces, when did we get old looking?

It's pretty much weight dependent. Airshow take offs and climb outs are usually done with minimum fuel and cargo. A bird maxed out with cargo and/or fuel is going to take off using more runway and and a shallower climb out. 

Good article, I did notice that there where no stats for the H-34 in helo losses.

RIP Marines.

Happy Birthday Bob!

Brochure was pretty straight forward (not trying to pick on the OP) to me. Basically higher output bleed air, ATM and motor eliminated and larger capacity generator mounted on the unit. Replacing the GTC with an APU more or less.

Both of those exec's on the brochure are former C 130 Marines

Randie, if you go to the database page and look up the EC 130 Q  that may help you out some. Tanker 131 is a former US Navy bird.

http://www.wcvb.com/article/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-bomb-on-afghanistan-battlefield-military-sources-say/9272073

All I can say is BOOOM!

https://www.facebook.com/365811193449289/photos/a.387891491241259.92571.365811193449289/1107237205973347/?type=3&theater

Looks like a SKE fairing on top of the fuselage. Marine birds had a different fairing up there

Our "R" models (equivalent to an H with the A/C pacs) had an SPR surge suppressor located behind the SPR panel. had to open the air deflector to get at it. 

I'm going on memory here, but around 200 pph rings a bell.

I'm going on memory with this, During the late 70's to early 80's Marine F models had their outer wings replaced along with some other work for a service life extension program. The B model wings where replaced with E model wings that also had the points for external tanks along with pods.

In the 00's external tanks got slung on them before they went to the boneyard, They came from the factory with low level control valves wired up limiting the outboard tanks to 7 or 7.5k fuel.

No hard hat or restraining harness? Where is the QA rep when you need one?  (sarc)

Thank you guys

I've seen on FB that the Philippine Air Force has picked up a couple of T models, Does anyone knows which Buno's they got?