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Happy Birthday, C-130! #9110923 08/19/14
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 22,271 Back in Texas, for good! tex_n_cal OP Campfire Ranger
OP tex_n_cal Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 22,271 Back in Texas, for good!	60 years since its first flight. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/1...l-magnificent-machine/?intcmp=latestnews "...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."

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Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! tex_n_cal #9110934 08/19/14
Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 11,909 Plains,Texas P plainsman456 Campfire Outfitter
plainsman456 Campfire Outfitter P Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 11,909 Plains,Texas	Noisy uncomfortable and hot,but the best at what it does. You can't stay in service that long without being the best. Last edited by plainsman456; 08/19/14.

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! plainsman456 #9111140 08/19/14
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121 S Steelhead Campfire Oracle
Steelhead Campfire Oracle S Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121	Neatest flight in a C-130 was from Kodiak to Nome, with a few stops between. "Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! Steelhead #9111207 08/19/14
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia D Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter
Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia	"Cut my teeth" on 1962 E models. Retired flying 1988 (contracted year)new from Lockheed H models. They smelled like a new truck!!! The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! tex_n_cal #9111268 08/19/14
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count... derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana
derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count...	Happy birthday C-130. What a magnificent bastard. Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Anonymous "Self-reliance, free thinking, and wealth is anathema to both the power of the State and the Church." Derby Dude

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Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! plainsman456 #9111273 08/19/14
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count... derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana
derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count...	Originally Posted by plainsman456 Noisy uncomfortable and hot,but the nest at what it does. You can't stay in service that long without being the best. Absolutely. UPS has a flock of them. Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Anonymous "Self-reliance, free thinking, and wealth is anathema to both the power of the State and the Church." Derby Dude

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! derby_dude #9111281 08/19/14
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,965 Caldwell, Idaho I idahoguy101 Campfire Regular
idahoguy101 Campfire Regular I Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,965 Caldwell, Idaho	United Parcel Service operates C-130's?

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! idahoguy101 #9111285 08/19/14
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count... derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana
derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count...	The civilian version anyway. I've seen it in Seatac the last time I was there a few years back. Last edited by derby_dude; 08/19/14. Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Anonymous "Self-reliance, free thinking, and wealth is anathema to both the power of the State and the Church." Derby Dude

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! derby_dude #9111309 08/19/14
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 10,424 The Treasure State Dave_Skinner Campfire Outfitter
Dave_Skinner Campfire Outfitter Joined: May 2003 Posts: 10,424 The Treasure State	Test pilot said, after first flight: We're gonna sell a lot of these. A great plane, without a doubt. My favorite transport. Wish more were in commercial service -- or at least those wings and engines for podunk airfields. Up hills slow, Down hills fast Tonnage first and Safety last.

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! Dave_Skinner #9111320 08/19/14
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 17,876 el Norte Tejas gonehuntin Campfire Ranger
gonehuntin Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 17,876 el Norte Tejas	It's unarguably the best large utility aircraft ever mfg., surpassing the venerated DC-3 in mission capacity. "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson We are all Rhodesians now.

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Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! tex_n_cal #9111354 08/19/14
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter
FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	Bout 50/50 for me 123's and 130's but a Herc was a better ride anytime. You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! FlyboyFlem #9111393 08/19/14
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,509 WNY B BGunn Campfire Regular
BGunn Campfire Regular B Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,509 WNY	My favorite... Loadmaster on E's in RVN, '68 to 70. They got me through 632 takeoff's and landings in Vietnam without a scratch (but I did have to run away, not walk, from 2 of them !!) 10,000 pound kiss, on it's way out the door (We did a lot more than haul trash !!).. My Car... My Plate... Old Fishermen never die, we just get reel tired. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay......Forever young

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! BGunn #9111440 08/19/14
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 15,850 MBS, MI A AJ300MAG Campfire Ranger
AJ300MAG Campfire Ranger A Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 15,850 MBS, MI

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! AJ300MAG #9111448 08/19/14
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,025 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna
DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,025 In the Swamps	God a'mighty, I am getting old. Great ol' bird that. I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! DigitalDan #9111704 08/19/14
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia D Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter
Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia	BGUNN, I think your C-130 needs the props resynced!!! The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! Dave_in_WV #9111750 08/19/14
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 18,075 GA, USA ready_on_the_right Campfire Ranger
ready_on_the_right Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 18,075 GA, USA	Exited several while in flight! Loaded more than a few OH-58D's on them as well. Great aircraft. mike God, Family, and Country. NRA Endowment Member

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! ready_on_the_right #9111754 08/19/14
Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 973 Maryland armedferret Campfire Regular
armedferret Campfire Regular Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 973 Maryland	I know of one that didn't quite make it to 60.

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! tex_n_cal #9111828 08/19/14
Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 37,848 San Antonio TX Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana
Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 37,848 San Antonio TX	I watched one do THIS one time..... ...I was impressed Birdwatcher "...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! Birdwatcher #9111879 08/19/14
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 16,361 Las Vegas NM M mark shubert Campfire Ranger
mark shubert Campfire Ranger M Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 16,361 Las Vegas NM	I am too, Birdy I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: Happy Birthday, C-130! Birdwatcher #9111914 08/19/14
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 13,860 T Take_a_knee Campfire Outfitter
Take_a_knee Campfire Outfitter T Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 13,860	They crashed this one. The rest worked. It is a shame it didn't get a chance to haul the US Embassy in Iran's hostages to freedom

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