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Post by jimpadgett on Sept 8, 2011 22:25:04 GMT 9
This from Air Force Magazine on-line.
Resting Place for a Red Dragon Herk: A 47-year-old C-130E, one of the Air Force's oldest Hercules aircraft and the veteran of a harrowing rescue decades ago, landed for the last time at Robins AFB, Ga., for display at the adjacent Museum of Aviation. Aircraft # 63-7868 arrived at Robins on Tuesday, reported the Macon Telegraph. On Nov. 23, 1964, this aircraft was among the C-130s that participated in Operation Dragon Rouge to rescue 2,000 western hostages held by rebels in Stanleyville in the former Republic of the Congo. Damaged by rebel fire departing Stanleyville, aircraft # 63-7868 continued 800 miles on three engines, delivering its passengers to safety and earning its crew the MacKay Trophy for the most meritorious flight of that year. Previously assigned to the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock AFB, Ark., this C-130E is the museum's second Hercules variant, joining an AC-130 gunship already on display. (See also Museum of Aviation release)
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Post by Gene on Sept 9, 2011 7:45:25 GMT 9
a herk is a good addition to any air museum... the mcchord museum is working on one now...not sure if theres any special circumstances behind this one... i think if you look back far enough every 130 has been in the sh*t at some time or other...
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Post by Mark O on Sept 9, 2011 9:43:18 GMT 9
That tail number sure sounds familiar. I may or may not have flown it. To many old logs to go through, but if I did fly it, I did either in school, or over in the desert. I'll keep looking. So, I decided to look in my pics... Ah-ha. I was close. I flew 7867 over in the desert last year. We broke a starter shaft, and had to sit around for them to send us one. We technically could have done a windmill taxi start, but no one was shooting at us, so we waited it out. I knew that tail number sounded, well...close! Mark
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Post by Gene on Sept 9, 2011 10:32:51 GMT 9
i saw a windmill start once...they backed in another a/c... had me watching... that was something else... back about '77...
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Post by Mark O on Sept 9, 2011 11:29:05 GMT 9
i saw a windmill start once...they backed in another a/c... had me watching... that was something else... back about '77... We called those "buddy starts" when another Herk would back up to create the wind. Same principle, but the preference was to get that blade spinning with a taxi. Less chance of a collision. We used to practice the windmill taxi start during our simulator training all the time, but in my day I never heard of anyone actually doing it.
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