got this at the BX at Hurlburt. you could substitute C-130 with UH-1, HH-3, C-7, C-123 or anything you ever had to wait on when you really, really wanted to get out of Dodge. lee

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Ya done good, Lee...

Like the Tee a great deal Lee.

I have taken off in C-130s many times; amazing thrust at full take off; just never landed in one.

After the C-119,and C-123, the C-130 came to be the most used Paratrooper plane at Fort Bragg during the early sixties.
The C-119 on the other hand was often a take-off, and a landing, all on the same runway.
Once on one that ran out of runway three times and never got airborne. It, and the bumble bee, share the trait of supposedly, being ill-formed aerodynamically to fly.

I was harnessed in for ground-to-air pickup training by a C-130.
On the second fly around to get positioned correctly there was lightening in the area and the exercise was called off. (Thanks Lord, I won't volunteer again; promise.)

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Smile Lee, Smile!

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Nice looking family, two daughters and a son?

the 7 th S.O.S. had some MC-130E Combat Talons at Rhein Main AB with the Fulton system on them. it is supposed to be one heck of a ride.

A lovely family portrait. Bet they got their sweet smiles from the Mrs.

Nice.
I'll have to dig out my C-130 tee shirt from Lockheed Arabia and post it.
Also my "Herk Club" hat from Sanaa, Yemen.
Also have one from Bell Helicopter International (BHI) from the Iranian revolution. BHI had some 40,000 employees there. Shirt said:
"Stay and die for BHI".

I couldn't find the shirt, but a friend made an embroidery of it. The Herk club hat came from TDY in Yemen from Saudi Arabia home base, (Prince Abdullah RSAF Base, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

An amazing aircraft...
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I remember reading about Col. Singlaub inventing the device that picked up personnel from the ground with a fixed wing aircraft, and how he was the first to use it, while in Viet Nam!

the Fulton recovery system was invented and used long before Vietnam. it was used on a B-17. instead of coming in through the cargo bay the person or cargo was brought in through the bomb bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton...ecovery_system

Spent a few hours riding sideways on lawn chairs in a C130! Longest trip was from Shemya, Alaska AFB to Anchorage to Omaha, Nebraska to Ft. Worth, Texas. Went from 32 degrees to 105 degrees in the same day, boy that Texas cold beer tasted good! Don't think I ever grabbed another "hop" after that.

joe, I can relate to that some what. once I left 220 miles north of the arctic circle in mid march. it was getting up to 10 or so during the day there. flew back to Germany where it was in the high 30s. I had my sleeves rolled up. three days later I caught a C-141 to Sudan. talk about body shock. my body tried to reject it's self. I was one of a few people who could go to sleep anywhere so I locked my arms in the webbing of the seats and slept like a baby. lee

on a TDY to Incirlik AB I flew down in the back end. I decided on the way back to Rhein Main AB that flying in the back wasn't going to happen. I flew back sitting on the bench seat next to the navigator and it was much better. the drawback was that there wasn't a seat belt so when the pilot is landing the C-130 and he puts the props full reverse there isn't much to hang on to

I traveled a bunch in C-130's while in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. I rode up in the front of the C-130 twice. The reason was simple, the rear was occupied by our fallen hero's coffins, imagine rows of coffins all covered with our nations colors. A reporter got in trouble taking a picture of the back of a C-17 full of coffins, but I will go to my grave grateful for the sacrifice's our military gave to our nation.

Never flew in a 130, watched them ( I believe they were 130's) come in and take off from a portable air strip we built during operation fish hook in Cambodia.

One of my last projects while at the Rock Island Arsenal working in the prototype shop was making the first six prototype gun mounts that mounted the 105 artillery piece in the 130 gun ship. That was an amazing difficult project, marrying the blueprint specs. from two different branches of service.

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I have quite a few hours in the C130 as a crewman in the USCG. It was a great plane. We would take two crews and extra fuel for long over ocean searches. That was when the Coast Guard's primary job was search and rescue.
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Yes, indeed Lee. I have a lot of respect for "The Big Silver Cloud"!

Topped off many times from a KC-130 when I was flying in the A-6E "Intruder" IIRC, we had to slow down to about 130 KTAS, but it was always worth it.

The AFSOC AC-130 "Spectre"s have saved many lives, too!

Lockheed has built many of these for both the Marines and the Air Force!

Thanks for sharing!

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I can verify that an extraction by C-130 is one helluva ride. We had inserted by HALO jump to knock out a power station up North, and the plan was to be extracted by a Jolly Green (HH53); but things got really hot in Indian Country, so extraction by the "Fulton System" (aka STABO ) became necessary, or hike about 60 klicks. Had I known then what I know now, hoofin' it would have been MY choice. A kit, with balloon, helium bottle, harnesses and lifting web straps was dropped; instructions were read and we prepared to depart. When the balloon was caught by the Herky Bird and the strap snapped tight, you were gone vertical right now! If I had ever had to do it again, my path would have been delineated by a brown streak. I was sorta used to going out of a C-130 at altitude, but that was the first and only time I ever went from the ground to the air.

My understanding was that the system was originally developed and perfected in the early 60's for recovering satellite recon film ejected over the Pacific from our spy satellites orbiting over the USSR. I never had a "need to know" how the film canisters made it from orbit to atmosphere.

My dad retired from Hurlburt Field (Eglin Field #9) in 1966.

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Cool shirt, Lee...Now I have to find the same thing for us ex-Phantom Phixers...Got these two already......Ben

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I was stationed at Whitby Island , Wa , on a detachment . Our squadron , VMAQ-2 had received new planes , EA-6B's to start replacing EA-6A's , which were at Cherry Point . We had a Det on the USS Midway for a long time and we were heading west to change with them . I was picked to go with the planes to meet the Midway .

We loaded up the Det boxes on you guessed it , a C-130 . We flew from Whidbey to Cali , then to Hawaii , Wake , Guam and finally to the PI . The Islands were beautiful , especially Wake .When we deplaned there were still signs not to walk off the runway , there were still land mines and unexploded ordinance . It was an unforgettable trip , but in a C-130 just a little b***numbing .

Did you ever get to jump from a C-141?

I never jumped from one, but did a lot of takeoffs with an equal number of landings in the eight years I served in the USAF. I did get the tee-shirt, although after 30 years it doesn't fit any more I was a qualified medical aircrew (Flight Nurse) in the C-130, C-141B and C-9, but the "Flying Lizard" was my primary aircraft.

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I saw a meme the other day that would make a great Tee shirt.

It showed a C-130 landing in a cloud of dust with:

“The C-130, taking people to the most horrible places in the world since 1954”

Lived in Jacksonville AR 1987-1992. Jacksonville is, of course, the gate town for LRAFB, and while I flew out of the civilian airport I did spend a lot of time in and around the 130s there. Watching them practice their "assault landing" was a trip. Very steep approach, big flair, slam it on the ground and throw it into reverse. Stop on a dime and give you 5 cents change. Sort of like an autorotation in a helicopter, except no reverse thrust.

I've ridden in the back of 130s, 141s and C-5s and I must say the Herk was the least comfortable of them all. Nice family photo Lee.

I rode a C130 (sling seat, sideways) like a cargo hold, from France to Tripoli Libya and back. Thank god I had my tool box with my ear muff's with me. That plane isn't sound proofed.

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I took one ride only in a dollar-41, when my wing (49th TFW) rotated back to West Germany for the spring war games in January 1969...It was a 10 day trip due to the stopoff at NAS Bermuda which also functioned as Kindley AFB...I was part of an enroute support team which had to be stationed in advance along the route our 75 F-4's took from Holloman AFB in NM to Spangdahlem AB in West Germany...Despite the January weather, it turned into a mini-vacation for those of us selected for that team...

All 75 aircraft passed overhead with no incidents, upon which we re-embarked to complete our mission...

Wheelus AB, and its attendant bombing range, were another frequent destination for our wing......Ben

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I rode a C 130 out of Vietnam to Okinawa. As it flapped it 's wings on takeoff I knew I was going to a better life, courtesy of Richard Nixon, the guy who went to China, ended US involvement in the Vietnam War. The College Deferment Left did not like that.

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Two rides in a 130. Bangkok to Udorn in 68 and Udorn to Bangkok in 69.
I liked the second time the best.