[Happy2BMe]

Can you believe those things are still in the inventory?

[Happy2BMe]

Herky Birds over Baghdad - ping.

[rageaholic]

obnoxious character, glad I'm not his copilot.

[ASOC]

2nd Sweetest sound in the world - a Herk with your name on it -- so as to depart the AO - on hot final!

[Leisler]

As a paratrooper I know I did, and so did a lot of others, swear ungodly at the maneuvers a pilot could make with a 130. Frigg'n fighter pilot wannabe's. It was really tough to stand up and stay up with all that equipment and having the pilot pulling a g or so.

Actually it was amazing. Kind of like being in the back of a dump truck that the driver somehow got to place in a down hill ski course.

[MediaMole]

C-130s are a blast. It's just too cool to watch the pallets fly out the back door or head in for a short field landing.

I'm kid of surprised they are still using E models. Even the AF reserve has H and J models. The H models are only 15 years old and the J's are fresh off the line.

[TheLurkerX]

LOL, that's cool.

[canalabamian]

I can clearly see the wet spot spreading around his crotch.

Why would a normal pilot look over his shoulder while attempting a landing and gayze at his navigator's crotch? Strange.

[Rummyfan]

Great post thanks! As for old aircraft, the Marines are still flying CH-46s aren't they?

[Ramius]

Can you believe those things are still in the inventory?

Of COURSE they are... the 130 is a damn fine airplane. Not pretty, to be sure, but it's the beat-up Chevy Pickup of airplanes. For some as-yet unexplained reason the little buggers just seem to refuse to quit flyin'. Gotta respect that. :-)

[Hunble]

Cute and funny story, but fiction.

[pabianice]

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.

[RaceBannon]

Yer gonna love this one, Flyboys!

[FreedomCalls]

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?

[Servant of the 9]

Flyboy PING!!

So9

[pfflier]

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.

[Feckless]

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.

[Feckless]

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.

[steplock]

His opening words lost me - typical of a jackass like the jackasses guarding(?) the iraqi prisoners