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Bob a buno that high is most likely a J model, Thats what VMGR 252 (BH) flys. Times change, It was a point of pride to be tooling around in birds older most of the crew. Now it seems like the Marines have all fairly new Herks.
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http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1972.html Joe Baugher's web site shows 1293 being retired to AMARC in 2007 However it does show 1297 being burned out by a rocket attack in 1975 at Tan Son Nhut?
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That old girl still has plenty of life left in her, I hope they take good care of her down there.
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http://www.freemaninstitute.com/dateapp.htm Sorry for the link, I've actually had kids fill this out after I frisked them. No they did not come back.
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Good to see those old girls will be in good hands.
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Those would have been some really interesting landings with a J79 and PAX in the back.
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After spending most of the 80's at Cherry Point I wondered why I never heard of that field, So I looked it up. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Airfields_NC_NE.htm#harvey Now I know why I've never heard of it, Never mind I didn't see nothing!
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If memory serves me right, they are for thermal / pressure relief for the dry bay. The exact details escape me right now.
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I'm not sure what Buno's they bought. These birds where the west coast birds back in the day #'s where 160013 to 160021 and 160240, 240 was broken up for the center wing box and 021 was lost in Pakistan. No air-packs and GTC's. The 4 birds that where on the east coast 160625 to 160628 I understand are in Navy hands, they had the air-packs and the APU's.
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http://globalaviationreport.com/2014/06/14/japanese-maritime-self-defense-force-to-conduct-familiarization-flights-at-d-m/ It looks like the Japanese are starting to roll out the old Marine R models they pulled from the boneyard. It looks like they old GTC was removed and maybe an APU installed in its place. Any how they are good looking birds.
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brake pressure while towing c130 by a tractor.
hlg6016 replied to edwardlcy's topic in C-130 Technical
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"The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items." I live in a house full of women, Best you can do is stake out a corner for your stuff and tell them that if any of their stuff is found in it it gets tossed out.
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There they are, Behind that grey airplane!
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Thanks Bob, Good to see some F models are still in the air. Do you know if 160628 is going to Japan?
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I feel your pain guys, All my birds (F models) are in the yard. At least the R models still have some life in them with the Navy flying some of them and the Japanese buying up the rest. My MOS and crew position doesn't even exist anymore.
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I can't speak for the T models but all the Marine R models had them.
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Al check 3073 and 3075 in the gallery
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Don't forget a flashing yellow light on the helmet and a restraining harness tethered to a padeye on the flight line.
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Rest in peace Dan
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Hauled a cobra helicopter to Atsugi for rework, Ops would not let me claim stick time for the nap (I mean eye lid inspection) I conducted in its cockpit. Hauled a replica bronze bell to Hickam that was going to replace one at the Naval Academy that was taken during the battle of Okinawa and a pallet of rocks that was going to one of the O'clubs golf couses on Oki. Heard rumors that a flight crew hauled an elephant? on behalf of the Thai royal family.
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Merry Christmas to all in Herkyland!
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My last couple of weeks in the Marines we had a couple of Navy Q models come through on their way to AMARC. We where supposed to can the external tanks off them and we had a bitch of a time just breaking torque on the pylon bolts to drop them.
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Thank you Tusker, I just watched that video with my daughter and she was impressed getting to see a ski bird in action after looking one over at the Westover AB airshow in August.
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http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Lockheed_C-130_Hercules There is some good browsing at this link.