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Aloha Alfa6!

Thinking a lot about what you asked, "What are heavies?" Good reply. I thought back to seeing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' near an F-4 Phantom or compared to our EA-3 'Whale'. Puff could carry cargo and considered Heavy and the others 'fast movers' and 'strike/support'.

I guess I was thinking about flying out of DaNang up to Okinawa on a C-141 Star Lifter on space available status.(Space Available, my ass! A company of Marines could fit in there.) The fus was loaded with trucks and heavy equipment and the two of us got fold down aluminum and canvas seats along the bulkhead. We wished the cargo master wouldn't watch us so closely so we could sneak up into a truck and catch a few comfortable zzz's on the seats.

The Connies and Orions we flew in were heavies, C-130s, C-135s and some of the older stuff were heavies too. So's the Buff and B-1 and B-2.

Sometimes a C-5 and lately C-17s visit here. Those are Heavies.

[alfa6]

Okay, I guess we were on the same wavelength, more or less.

Have a great week and we wiull see you next week I hope

Regards

alfa6 ;>}