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By The Armorer on June 19, 2010 | | Comments (17)
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

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By Barb on June 19, 2010 10:09 AM
"It followed us home. Can we keep it?"
 
By Heartless Libertarain on June 19, 2010 11:26 AM
C130 pilots decide to form their own precision flying demostration team
 
By Blake Kirk on June 19, 2010 11:34 AM
What?  This is not a still from "Mating Habits of the C-130?"

Though what the aych-ee-double-hockey-sticks the guy with the bagpipes is doing on the aft ramp is beyond me...

If Fifteen Para were still around I'd assume that this must be THEIR fault.  But since they were disestablished some time ago, I'm clueless.
 
By RichinKCK on June 19, 2010 12:47 PM
That is an RAF herkybird in the pic which might help to explain the gent with the bagpipes.

Heartless Libertarain you can google The C-130 Four Horseman for whne the USAF had a flight demo team of C-130A

Regards

RichinKCK


 
By htom on June 19, 2010 4:41 PM
www.youtube.com/watch

I'd heard of them, but had no idea there was film.   Thanks for the reference.
 
By seadog on June 19, 2010 8:01 PM
Well, being one of the USAF brethren,  I don't have a problem with this photo,  Everybody knows the Brits don't listen to the radio, but they'll follow the 'pipes to Hell and back.
 
By Justthisguy on June 19, 2010 11:38 PM
Rich got there ahead of me. Yup, I betcha that would have been fun to watch:

Elephant Dancing.

This gets me back to my pet "money in the wrong hands" peeve.  Lockheed actually civilly certified the Hercules, so theoretically you could pay them to build one for you, if you had the bucks. If I had the bucks for  a Gulfstream, I'd druther spend them on a Herc. One could fly along with the ramp down, sitting on a  lawn chair bolted to said ramp, tossing empty beer cans as one proceeded.

Or one could play the Pipes.

At any rate, one could roll his F-150 (the preferred vehicle of millionaires) up in there, and the boat trailer, too.

Try that in a G5.
 
By Casey on June 20, 2010 12:27 AM
So you're saying, JTG, that a civilian Herc would be the world's ultimate pickup? :)

The AC- version would probably play merry Hell with the local deer season, though...

 
By Justthisguy on June 20, 2010 12:43 AM
Well, Casey, in general, yes. It would take money to pay the necessary staff, but I betcha we could get better people for less money than the guys the G5 posers have to work on their candy-planes.

Nix on the AC. I said, "civilly certified." That is the whole point of the exercise. I see nothing wrong with me and my guests shooting handheld weapons, assuming I own such an airplane, and we are flying some place where it is safe to do that.
 
By Slick Rick on June 20, 2010 1:08 AM
That 300 Herc is now retired and wasting away at an RAF base S.  Central UK.  A K model.  While something of a ramp queen now, the RAF flyers got their money's worth out of the airframe. 
 
By Dave on June 20, 2010 5:17 AM
I remember seeing one listed maybe 10 years ago  on a used airplane website.

20k hours or so,  bunch of stuff listed that at the time I didn't understand,   I forget the price,  but it was serious,  10 or 20 million iirc.

All I could think about was if I won the lottery,  how much fun it could be.   Drive the truck onto it with the boat trailer,  and go fishing in Canada.    Or drive the truck with the snomobile trailer on it,  and fly out to Yellowstone.  

Damn lottery tickets,  they're a waste of money....
 
By Justthisguy on June 20, 2010 2:32 PM
P.s. 

The Herc is famous for its short-field/bad-field capabilities. Just exactly what you want for a huntin and fishin airplane.
 
By Grumpy on June 20, 2010 3:54 PM
 @Blake Kirk, "Herc Mating Season?" But, I think this is one of things to be seen at a long distance. This is *not* something seen up close, it could get real messy. I remember one of our *experts* noted on one of 'Mil-Blog' websites on one of our hovercraft. On the hovercraft, there were some scratches or so he says. Therefore, he suggests a refresher course in, "De-assing the Vessel." Well, they didn't get everything correctly. We work with everything we have, not what we want. Instead of "De-assing," they thought in terms of "Re-assing." Now, they know what the Vets feel like.

Did this actually happen? Of course *not,* but we had a little fun. *Thanks,* Armorer.
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on June 20, 2010 3:58 PM
 JTG
May I offer you the Lockheed L-100 Hercules:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-100_Hercules

Cheers
 
By Justthisguy on June 20, 2010 8:02 PM
Yup, Captain, that's exactly what I had in mind.
 
By Blake Kirk on June 20, 2010 10:34 PM
Hercs evidently wear pretty good:  USAF retired a C-130E back in March which had 33,220 flight hours on its clock.  47 years between the date it left the factory in Marietta and the date they finally put it out to pasture.

Think we got our money's worth out of that one?
 
By Grumpy on June 22, 2010 12:41 AM
@Kirk, you wrote something about  the retirement of a C-130E, back in March. It was 47 years old and had 33,200 flight hours, from the day it left Marietta. How many people actually think the stuff we're building today will last that long? Those old girls flew in Mama Nature's  worst temper tantrums.

Yeah, we got our money's worth. Now, just imagine these kids thinking and figuring on one aircraft, the old, "BUFF". These were the old B-52's. "BUFF?" It stands for, "Big Ugly Fat F*ck."