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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.

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?

That old girl still has plenty of life left in her, I hope they take good care of her down there.

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.

Good to see those old girls will be in good hands.

Those would have been some really interesting landings with a J79 and PAX in the back.

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!

If memory serves me right, they are for thermal / pressure relief for the dry bay.

The exact details escape me right now.

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.

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.

Pictures of pump and gage

Where did the stack valve go?

"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.

There they are, Behind that grey airplane!

Thanks Bob, Good to see some F models are still in the air. Do you know if 160628 is going to Japan?

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.

I can't speak for the T models but all the Marine R models had them.

Al check 3073 and 3075 in the gallery

Happy Birthday Bob!

Don't forget a flashing yellow light on the helmet and a restraining harness tethered to a padeye on the flight line.

Rest in peace Dan

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.

Merry Christmas to all in Herkyland!

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.

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.

http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:Lockheed_C-130_Hercules

There is some good browsing at this link.