C-130 Beach Landing
12-09-2007 | 07:47 AM
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C-130 Beach Landing
Wonder where they got corrosion in the wheel wells ??
: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uzpDy3n3Vs&feature=related
: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uzpDy3n3Vs&feature=related
12-09-2007 | 09:09 AM
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quite frankly perhaps one of the best airlifters ever built....certainly in the post WWII era. Not that I am biased or anything. 
AND STILL being built in the new J Model livery. Over 50 years in production in some form or another...quite remarkable.
AND STILL being built in the new J Model livery. Over 50 years in production in some form or another...quite remarkable.
12-09-2007 | 11:52 AM
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12-09-2007 | 04:00 PM
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Me too, also. Flew the E model back when the Navy was still part of MAC. Then flew the B model for 2 years out of Barbers Point, Hi. Destined to become the DC-3[C-47] of the turbine era.
12-09-2007 | 05:26 PM
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12-09-2007 | 08:10 PM
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okay.... I concur, THE finest airlifter ever built. My 1600 hours in the E's well, lets just say.....that was flying. We had lots of 63's and 64's as well as some 68's and 70's during my years with the 317th at Pope. When I went thru copilot initial training even flew some 62's at the "Rock". John Norton was one of the first C-17 guys trained out at Edwards during acceptance flights. He came from the 40th at Pope and later went on to be a squadron commander at Charleston AFB I believe.
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