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(HUMOR) Hail to the Air Force - Trash Haulers Have Fun Too. A C130 Herky Bird Over Baghdad.
Posted on 06/01/2004 7:20:00 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
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To: canalabamian
It is a story, not to be confused with real life. I loved the description of the Steely-eyed crew chief.
Time to get out my Flight Simulator and try the 90/270 maneuver on the C-130.
The C-130 is one hell of a bird.
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:43:08 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: aviator
Hmmmm. Runway on the nose. 90 degree left turn, then a 270 degree right turn puts the runway directly behind you unless you start the maneuver right over the middle of the runway. He didn't mention that part. No wonder he's a C-130 pilot!
Good catch. Maybe he was backing in? :=)
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:45:28 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Rummyfan
PhotoID: 200391741149 Submitted by: MCB Camp Butler Operation/Exercise/Event: Exercise Crocodile
Caption: USMC CH46's landing at Sam Hill air field durning exercise Croc03 at Shoalwater Bay 2003. Photo by: Lance Cpl Neil Ruskin
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:45:43 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: MediaMole
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:49:13 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Happy2BMe
Can you believe those things are still in the inventory? Sure. The P-3Bs we flew out of Cam Ranh Bay, RVN, on night recon hops in 1970 were still being flown by the Navy in 1991. In fact, the particular ones I flew in Vietnam were the same ones I flew at SOWEY 20 years later.
To: Dutchy; zelig
Yer gonna love this one, Flyboys!
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:49:18 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(VOTE DEMOCRAT AND LEARN ARABIC FREE!!)
To: canalabamian
answer is "air force, home of gays and lesbians"! :-)
not all of course - but in my Army experience in Okinawa - most fag busts were on Kadena.
mostly in the womens barracks.....
To: Happy2BMe
As they say of the CH46, the last one was built in 1970. The last CH46 pilot hasn't been born yet!
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:50:28 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: TheLurkerX; All
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:51:05 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: canalabamian
Nah.
90 degrees (relative) is right turn.
'Nother 270 degree turn (relative to the new course at right angles to the first course) completes the full circle.
(He wants to land on runway 33 = 330 degrees true. First 90 deg turn puts him on course 060 true.
Next 270 degree (relative) turn puts back on course 330 true.
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:51:12 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
To: Happy2BMe
I grease the Goodyear's on brick-one of runway 33 left He's landing on the wrong side though! 33R is the proper side isn't it?
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:57:31 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Wingsofgold; Letitring
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posted on
06/01/2004 7:59:41 PM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
To: All
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:00:01 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
To: Servant of the 9
LOL. Thanks for the ping Swervie. Smooch.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
A 90-270 maneuver is a method of reversing course. If his initial heading were 330, he'd wind up heading 150 after the two turns.
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:02:21 PM PDT
by
Dratlatl
To: Happy2BMe
The C-130 is the sweetest bird alive. They are in the inventory because they perform their one-of-a-kind job so well. When you speak of my aircraft do it in reverent tones from now on maggot.
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:03:16 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
IANAP but, according to the description in the original:
...yank into a sixty degree left bank, turning the aircraft ninety degrees offset from runway heading. As soon as we roll out of the turn, I reverse turn to the right a full two hundred seventy degrees...
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:12:33 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Happy2BMe
Like the B52, the UH-1, the M2 .50 Cal, and until recently, the M1911, the C130 was "a good deal". Not something our government is usually known for.
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:14:32 PM PDT
by
Feckless
To: Happy2BMe
Reminds me of the first ride I got in a Cobra, the crew chief tried to do a Statement of Charges on me for a seat cushion.... my @$$hole chewed a hole in it trying help me hold on.
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:17:30 PM PDT
by
Feckless
To: pabianice
Lockheed has a way of making good sh*t.
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posted on
06/01/2004 8:32:51 PM PDT
by
oyez
(Fortune favors the bold.)
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