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re: Happy 70th Anniversary to the Mighty C-130 Hercules
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:07 pm to Thracken13
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:07 pm to Thracken13
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i have always been more partial to WW2 Fighters and some of the newer jets, but the Herk is in my top 5 fave planes.
It’s amazing that the C-130 and the B-52 were designed and developed shortly after WWII, but both are still in use today, over 70 years later.
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Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:19 pm to slacker130
Loading up for my last night jump before I got out. I was actually just JMing for this one but it was still a great memory
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:24 pm to DarthRebel
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American Bad arse at work
Bro, disrespecting the Herk with that? That's no C-130.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:25 pm to RileyTime
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They’re cute, but it’s no C-17.
When they fly the last C-17 to the boneyard, the crew will get a ride home on a C-130.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:29 pm to slacker130
Today in GA-
Posted on 8/23/24 at 1:35 pm to High Life
I wish I had backed up my photos on my old phone that crapped out on me after hurricane Laura. Lots of great pics and videos from TDY/deployments that are gone forever now.
Everything from open ramp shots over the beaches in Destin to a video of the #2 prop getting waaaay too close for comfort while I was pushing a plane out of a spot in Bagram.
Good times...
Everything from open ramp shots over the beaches in Destin to a video of the #2 prop getting waaaay too close for comfort while I was pushing a plane out of a spot in Bagram.
Good times...
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:27 pm to slacker130
If I had serious FU money, I'd buy one and outfit that mfer like no one else's business. If they can fly through a hurricane, got to be built like a Hercules.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:47 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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If they can fly through a hurricane,
they are very much a brute of an airplane but they don't really fly through hurricanes, and hurricanes lose a lot of energy at altitude, I've flown over lots of hurricanes, dispatchers are like, meh, it's only a Cat 3, no need to burn extra gas to go around it
Posted on 8/23/24 at 2:58 pm to 777Tiger
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they are very much a brute of an airplane but they don't really fly through hurricanes
Hate to break it to you, but they do fly through hurricanes. I’ve flown penetrations thru the eyewall @ 5k feet. Doing laps in the eye is pretty cool, blue skies and your in a giant stadium. When you get near the center of circulation, the water can have a calm spot.
Poking through the eye can be bumpy, you’re avoiding the magenta on the radar as much as possible. A plane doesn’t care if the winds are 120kts one way or the other, it still flies.
I’ve flown thru cold fronts that were scarier by 10x than a hurricane.
This post was edited on 8/23/24 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 8/23/24 at 3:05 pm to slacker130
I once flew in a C-130 from Futenma, Okinawa to Cubi Point in the Philippines, with my assigned seat being a pile of cargo netting. Took forever but the crew was cool and I got to hang out on the flight deck drinking coffee. Got to love an airplane with its own coffee pot.
Posted on 8/23/24 at 3:05 pm to slacker130
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I’ve flown penetrations thru the eyewall @ 5k feet.
kind of goes to what I was getting at, you're probably not taking off if a hurricane is over/encroaching the field, but they really lose their teeth rapidly as you gain altitude, never been down in the eye, except standing in my driveway in S. FL, but using using your criteria I've flown "through" a dozen or so hurricanes
ETA: how was your sortie this morning?
This post was edited on 8/23/24 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 8/23/24 at 3:15 pm to slacker130
I bought a box of slides a few years back that were from a guy in the Army Corps of Engineers who worked on building Thule Airbase in Greenland in the 1950s. Among those slides were a few shots of a C-130 on the ice runway and around the airfield. It was cool to see, especially considering how new the plane would have been. There were helicopters and other planes, as well as photos of everyday life and work.
I bought the box of slides from a guy who had no connection to the family for $5, and the C-130 slides alone sold for a couple hundred bucks. The helicopters brought over $150 each. I was surprised with the amount of interest in them. The guy took all kinds of photos, even some aerial shots of the area. I have the plane/chopper pics somewhere on an SD card from where I sold them on Ebay.
I bought the box of slides from a guy who had no connection to the family for $5, and the C-130 slides alone sold for a couple hundred bucks. The helicopters brought over $150 each. I was surprised with the amount of interest in them. The guy took all kinds of photos, even some aerial shots of the area. I have the plane/chopper pics somewhere on an SD card from where I sold them on Ebay.
This post was edited on 8/23/24 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 8/23/24 at 3:26 pm to 777Tiger
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how was your sortie this morning?
Always good
Posted on 8/24/24 at 2:10 am to slacker130
KC-130...spent the 90s passing gas and hauling trash
Posted on 8/24/24 at 3:07 am to slacker130
My pops was a Hurricane Hunter. He liked flying C-130s out of Biloxi, but was always eyeing C-5s. He got his wish, I was born in Dover, DE!
Posted on 8/24/24 at 5:45 am to DownSouthCrawfish
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Ceeeeeee 130 rolling down the striiiiip…
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that
Posted on 8/24/24 at 5:46 am to slacker130
Also, maybe the safest aircraft in the world.
Posted on 8/24/24 at 5:59 am to Ponchy Tiger
Thank you for your post. My time flying was in the F / R / and T models as a celestial navigator. I was with VMGR-252 and VMGR-152. We made due with 4 bladed props not like the new fancy guys in the J model. It was not a plane capable of high speed or high altitude, but it was and is a workhorse that can perform multiple missions. I see now that the Marine Corps has outfitted it with outboard missiles, the Harvest Hawk. We used to have a pilot, copilot, flight engineer, navigator and loadmaster/radio operator. Now though the crew size is reduced. Semper Fi.
Posted on 8/24/24 at 6:09 am to slacker130
Posted on 8/24/24 at 7:45 am to AthensRattler
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My pops was a Hurricane Hunter. He liked flying C-130s out of Biloxi, but was always eyeing C-5s. He got his wish, I was born in Dover, DE!
Might know him, when was he in Biloxi?
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