Capt. Andrew Sides scans for another aircraft while flying a C-130 Hercules on a combat mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on Monday, June 19. Captain Sides is a pilot deployed to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, from the Delaware Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Maj. David Kurle)
1 posted on
06/27/2006 4:48:56 PM PDT by
SandRat
To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
2 posted on
06/27/2006 4:49:14 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
3 posted on
06/27/2006 4:53:10 PM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: SandRat
And I thought you were going to mention a DC-3! ;)
4 posted on
06/27/2006 4:56:18 PM PDT by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: SandRat
LAPES ping
5 posted on
06/27/2006 4:56:18 PM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: SandRat
The obvious question is left unanswered: how many of these precious workhorses are left?
6 posted on
06/27/2006 5:01:34 PM PDT by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: SandRat
Spent a good bit of time in the back of C-130s - as cargo. :-) Hauled from place to place.
10 posted on
06/27/2006 5:10:19 PM PDT by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: SandRat
The C 130 is a work horse that doesn't go away because there is nothing that can replace it. The same way with the C 47/ DC 3. It is still around today, even though the design dates back to the 1930's.
There is a company in Oshkosh that restores DC 3's and C 47's outfitting them with turbo prop engines. Almost 60 or 70 years after being built, this company is grabbing up C 47's and DC 3's and modernizing them.
11 posted on
06/27/2006 5:11:18 PM PDT by
joem15
(If less is more, then what is plenty?)
To: SandRat
When you really think about what America is accomplishing, it really makes you proud. From the team receiving the supply drops, the citizens paying the bills right down to the guy who designed the head on the Hercules.
13 posted on
06/27/2006 5:23:07 PM PDT by
IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: SandRat
And McCain keeps sending out a letter that says the AF doesn't need C-130s.
To: SandRat
I have been on board on C-130 in flight and in the cockpit. Its a fantastic plane.
15 posted on
06/27/2006 5:37:29 PM PDT by
garbageseeker
(Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room - Dr. Strangelove)
To: SandRat
I wonder if the UV-18S (Twin Otter)(see more at http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/uv-18.htm) might be a very good fit as well. The Army Guard uses them here in Alaska to good effect. Seems like the sandbox would be a good fit for high speed medevac, fast ammo resupply and so on.
17 posted on
06/27/2006 6:57:35 PM PDT by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: SandRat
Perhaps we could "accidently" mis-drop a few where insurgents find them. Little RFIDs to show us where they went.....
To: SandRat
From the title of this thread I thought that I was going to read about these workhorses:
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