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Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo #17617961 09/19/22
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska FlyboyFlem OP Campfire Outfitter
OP FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	These aircraft were work horses during my timeline as well as many of you and so often not given the credit they deserved ...Hats off to all that flew and crewed them like our own "jnyork"...salute ! You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

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Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17617986 09/19/22
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 31,250 Ogden, Utah RockyRaab Campfire 'Bwana
RockyRaab Campfire 'Bwana Joined: May 2003 Posts: 31,250 Ogden, Utah	Converted to turboprop, those planes would be worth their weight in gold up in Alaska today. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17617997 09/19/22
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 12,526 Radcliff, Kentucky R ratsmacker Campfire Outfitter
ratsmacker Campfire Outfitter R Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 12,526 Radcliff, Kentucky	The Canadian rescue service is still using them, probably the only ones flying today. Someone did a special on TV about them, it was really interesting. You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo RockyRaab #17618052 09/19/22
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Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,133 Freedom	Originally Posted by RockyRaab Converted to turboprop, those planes would be worth their weight in gold up in Alaska today. http://www.penturbo.com is up at Cape May NJ airport and they have bunch that they do just that with. African mining business is another place that gobbles them up. Flew up there for breakfast (good restaurant and nice aviation museum on the field) a while back and they had a bunch. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618060 09/19/22
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STRSWilson Campfire Tracker Joined: Sep 2021 Posts: 4,002 Georgia	de Havilland built some pretty amazing aircraft in their time. OK maybe not the Swallow or Comet (bad name choice), but their prop aircraft were/are amazing workhorses. Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

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Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618167 09/19/22
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,572 North Magadonia J jimone Campfire Regular
jimone Campfire Regular J Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,572 North Magadonia	I worked on Dash 7s for a while. Didn't get to fly one but did start up and taxi one once. Quite a rig with similar performance. But bigger. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618432 09/19/22
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,131 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna
DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,131 In the Swamps	I Corps departure 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: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618707 09/19/22
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 13 MO L LuckyLark New Member
LuckyLark New Member L Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 13 MO	DigitalDan would that departure be Quang Tri in 1968?

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618769 09/19/22
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	I watched an AFRES C-7 come across the end of the runway at Myrtle Beach AFB and once over pavement the pilot did an almost vertical landing. He didn't go forward much more than the length of the plane. That awed me more than the AV-8s that came in. 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: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17618784 09/19/22
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OP FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	One of my old B & W pics [1970] of one of several tail #'s we shared adjacent revetment parking with however the 483rd Tactical Airlift Wing at Phu Cat was later moved to Cam Ranh Bay from early 1968 to December 1971. Our C-7 ops were mainly used in Binh Dinh province and surrounding remote areas. You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

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Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo ratsmacker #17618840 09/19/22
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada AB2506 Campfire Outfitter
AB2506 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada	Originally Posted by ratsmacker The Canadian rescue service is still using them, probably the only ones flying today. Someone did a special on TV about them, it was really interesting. I'm interested, where did you find that the Caribou is still in use by the Canadian SAR? This is what I found: https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/programs/search-rescue.html Helicopter: CH149 Cormorant and CH146 Griffin. Fixed wing: CP140 Aurora, CC115 Buffalo, C130 Hercules, and the newest, the CC295 Kingfisher. I see that the Buffalo is a descendant of the Caribou. http://www.dhc4and5.org/Buffalo.html Last edited by AB2506; 09/19/22.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17619212 09/19/22
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kwg020 Campfire Ranger Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,199 North of Des Moines	My cousin started his Air Force career flying B 17s in WWII. His last combat assignment was as a wing (?) commander in Vietnam of C-7 Caribous in 1970 . He was promoted to full bird for this assignment. He retired from the Air Force in 1975. He did the Berlin Air Lift, Korea and the Pershing one deployment program in between. kwg For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo LuckyLark #17619299 09/19/22
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,131 In the Swamps DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna
DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,131 In the Swamps	Originally Posted by LuckyLark DigitalDan would that departure be Quang Tri in 1968? No, it was a strip southwest of Quang Tri as I recall. Lot of Montagnard villages in the area. 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: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17619322 09/19/22
Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,687 Tomball, TX S strosfann Campfire Regular
strosfann Campfire Regular S Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,687 Tomball, TX	Amazing STOL aircraft! Those would’ve been popular in Columbia back in the day.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17619693 09/19/22
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 12,344 Tucson AZ P PJGunner Campfire Outfitter
PJGunner Campfire Outfitter P Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 12,344 Tucson AZ	I only saw a couple while in Korea. I thought they were kind of cool looking. Had one declare an emergency and landed at the Tucson airport. Believe is was a landing gear problem. I had to do the special weather observation which was posted as an acft mishap. If it had been a crash it would have an ACFT accident. ACFT for the unenlightened is the contraction for aircraft, just in case someone needs to ask. PJ Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them. MOLON LABE

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17619726 09/20/22
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Seafire Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,784 Southern Oregon USA	Thanks for posting the thread Woody... There was a guy I met at an Air Show in St Paul when I lived back in Minnesota, who had a Caribou he had flown in... Many years after Vietnam was over, he had been able to locate and purchase the one he flew in Vietnam, restored and rebuilt it and was flying it to air shows...late 80s or so. "Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC “Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo Dave_in_WV #17620041 09/20/22
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dan_oz Campfire Regular D Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 2,586	Originally Posted by Dave_in_WV I watched an AFRES C-7 come across the end of the runway at Myrtle Beach AFB and once over pavement the pilot did an almost vertical landing. He didn't go forward much more than the length of the plane. That awed me more than the AV-8s that came in. I was in the back of one for a landing like that. Dropped and stopped, across the runway rather than along it. It must have looked impressive. We all ended up in a bit of a tangle in the back.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17620281 09/20/22
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	dan, the one I watched touched down soft and didn't stop. 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: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17620334 09/20/22
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scrooster Campfire Regular Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,662 Moon Tree, SC	Jump Mastered outta one lf those one time up in Alaska. They told us it would be like a C-123 jump .... but it wasn't. They could definitely take-off and land on a postage stamp though. What you think about, you do ... what you do, you become. In a nation where anything goes ... eventually, everything will. We're almost there.

Re: Gone but not forgotten the C-7 Boo FlyboyFlem #17620347 09/20/22
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 31,250 Ogden, Utah RockyRaab Campfire 'Bwana
RockyRaab Campfire 'Bwana Joined: May 2003 Posts: 31,250 Ogden, Utah	The C-123 was the other, slightly larger "tactical supply" cargo plane in 'Nam. Unlike the 'Boo, though, nobody has fond memories of the 123. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.

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