SEFEGeorge

Thanks Dave. Not bad considering the last time I flew was '85.

Thanks but not what I meant. I was more curious about the HC-H/P/Ns (radome, etc) and what happened when A/R pods were added to the E's (from the looks of it). Looks like the Es were given the A/R pods and MC designation. It appears that the HC-Hs were given A/R pods, regular radomes, and made MC-Ps. The standard designations I know, AC, DC, EC, HC, etc.....

It's been a while for me, 25 years, but there use to be C-130A, B, E, H, HC-H, HC-N, and HC-P designations. The HC-H and P's had the Fulton radome. Did they change all the designations, etc? Just curious.

If I remember correctly the pressure relief valve starts to open at 3850 psi and then re-seats at 3100 psi. But that's from an old man's memory. Not sure what the max pressure the lines would hold but I sure as hell wouldn't want to find out in flight. A small leak or break in the line at that pressure would be like a laser cutting things in half, not considering the fact that it would be a highly flammable situation.

Understand that completely.... :confused: Don't have any of my manuals, etc., anymore. Guess I lost those in the divorce too!

Excuse an old man's CRS, but I don't recall balanced/unbalanced terms. Can I get a definition?

Looked like one to me, but not having flown an AC I was just guessing.

If it was next to the class six store, that may be why no one recognizes it. Trying to keep eyes focused on the class six door handle.

In the winter he has blue icicles? Didn't know oil was blue. There's another blue substance I can think of but I didn't know Hercs had chem toilets!

I was on the Caribou side of the base. Didn't get much in the way of rocket attacks. Good thing since I don't recall any bunkers there.

Guy standing in front of the mini-gun with hand over mouth. Like he's saying "oh shit, oh shit, is that thing loaded?..."

PROP ARC, PROP ARC......:cool:

Initially that's what I thought but if you check out 4577 and 4579 you see new FS A/C and APUs. So they ordered birds with GTCs instead of the APUs?

Was looking through the Gallery and came across this picture. I thought 4578 was a 74 H model but it looks like an E model in the picture. What's the story with the bombs?

Damn, beat me to it. I just posted the article under "For Dan."

Probably should...[ATTACH=CONFIG]2586[/ATTACH]

The best that I can recall is that the P-3 has the same T-56 engine, with a different dash number (-14?) but gearbox mounted upside down (?). Probably to better keep salt spray out of the intake. But what do I know? I'm not a swabbie....

The "CAPS ON" light. "CAP LOCK ON"

from us infidels...:p

Knew that they were thinking about amphib Hercs at one time, but......

That was a "joke" question.

True, but when they downplay the older vet's wars...

Great. I put your post on the Air Force Blues site and came under a lot of criticism because of no source. Problem with those guys is that they're all "new" AF, except for a few, and those few are know-it-all officers with 15 yrs or less in. Plus, their "war" has been going on for 10 years with multiple deployments - to hear tell oh how they're suffering..... Hard to compare their war, with 4,000 casualties to VN with how many, 58K if I remember correctly. Plus-plus, they've got cell phones, computers, etc., to speak with their families whenever they want. What did we have? I only talked with my wife once from RVN over the MARS(?) system.

Any idea which General or in what context?

If I remember correctly we use to take off out of Hickam, pressurized, and climb to 25K. Depressurize, kick out a training "satellite", swoop down making practice runs at it, catch it, re-pressurize, climb, etc., do it 3-4 times. That's a little tiring on the body. Typically the we'd use manual pressurization, but one, err, idiot(?) would use aux vent to depressurize.