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I used to love rolling in on our own Hercs. It is so much more exciting than coming into the airport. When the top hatch is opened and Old Glory is flying high while 4 Allisons are humming is unexplainable. Even better when it's Code 1
Thanks all,
I used to love rolling in on our own Hercs. It is so much more exciting than coming into the airport. When the top hatch is opened and Old Glory is flying high while 4 Allisons are humming is unexplainable. Even better when it's Code 1
Quite a bird, I worked on Hercs in the PI in the Aero-Repair Shop.
By midday they were 130 degrees F inside, dried you out good!
Always glad to see troops arrive back home, I remember it well!
It was in Dec '72, ice storm, my fiance greeting me at the gate in St Louis.
They can get a bit warm inside. I worked E models in the desert (environmental systems) The air PACS on E models combined with leaks made it hard to pressurize on the ground. You basically get up on the flt deck, lock yourself in and hold the flt deck and cargo pacs to full manual hot while you pump her up. This while it's 125 F ambient. You need someone on the flt deck in the event either one of you pass out and a ground guy to pull the battery to kill the GTC if something goes wrong. Even at that rate, if no one is able to hit the emergency depressurization swith, it's a fairly long wait to bleed down through the leaks. If both guys are passed out on the flight deck, a window can't be opened to show a safe no press condition, so, openiong the crew door could get someone hurt or worse. Ah, the good times
They can get a bit warm inside. I worked E models in the desert (environmental systems) The air PACS on E models combined with leaks made it hard to pressurize on the ground. You basically get up on the flt deck, lock yourself in and hold the flt deck and cargo pacs to full manual hot while you pump her up. This while it's 125 F ambient. You need someone on the flt deck in the event either one of you pass out and a ground guy to pull the battery to kill the GTC if something goes wrong. Even at that rate, if no one is able to hit the emergency depressurization swith, it's a fairly long wait to bleed down through the leaks. If both guys are passed out on the flight deck, a window can't be opened to show a safe no press condition, so, openiong the crew door could get someone hurt or worse. Ah, the good times
Its a wonder we lived through it all...
I was taxiing a C-54 to the runup pad like my Msgt told me when we were halted by a troop of M-16 toting skycops for hijacking an aircraft.
Seems he needed to notify the tower, ops, or something...ROFL...
Another time I was along for the ride when a desk jockey was getting his flying time in shooting touch and gos. The instructor was putting the C-54 into a spiral and having the pilot "wake up" and correct the aircraft, that was amazing, I had no idea they were going to do that...LOL.
I decided to watch the landing gear through the drift meter on landing...it was a HARD landing....ROFL.... that hoit!
All in all its always great to see troops come home.
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