Mikey is correct: C-130 does not have T-tail empennage, like what is pictured, and the A400M pictured has a drogue (male) refueling probe above the cockpit. C-130 has (female) refueling receptacle for boom on top (dorsal) side of fuselage. It does look like a C-130 at first glimpse.
I am by no means an aviation ex-spurt but rode many a mile in C-130's back in the day. Lookit the tail and lookit the wingspan and lookit the snout on that contraption. No way is that a C-130.
I use the same set-up with a can smeared with peanut butter with a couple inches of anti-freeze in the bucket of my Finlander Mouse Traps, I can see where rats would merit a lid.
#1 Been there Done that. I wonder if the Assistant Gunner Knows he can get compensated for the bad ear plugs. You have to be deaf as a post or have really good hearing protection to drop mortar round and NOT cover your ears (even with Earplugs in). 11C Mortarman 1975 to 1978.
I have a Belgian Malinois that does that. He chased a squirrel right up a tree, but was not a match for the squirrel that could hop from branch to branch.
If I got my planes right ya sit backward in them things. I flew from Nam to the Philippines on a med vac to Guam in 69. It was a flying coffin. Body bags stacked to the ceiling and strapped in with big leather straps and buckles. At the end of the plane, the way I was facing, they had gurneys set up and docs were operating on soldiers in flight. When they lost one they bagged and tagged and threw em up on the pile like cord wood. I remember hitting turbulence and those bodies hitting the leather straps and making a cracking noise. I thought they we all gonna fall on us. In the Philippines we went to a Red Cross Center in the middle of a field. I think they put us on a different plane to Guam and I remember none of that flight nor the first few days on Guam. Wish it was the flying coffin that I didn't remember.
A foolish man builds his gun emplacement on the sand. Matt. 7:24-27.
ReplyDeleteYou kill your Jihadis where you find them.
Delete10) Missile decoy flare launch off of an airbus A-400M.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the propeller arcs, I think it's a C-130
DeleteCareer Air Defender here, yep that is a C130 Hercules.
DeleteMikey is correct: C-130 does not have T-tail empennage, like what is pictured, and the A400M pictured has a drogue (male) refueling probe above the cockpit. C-130 has (female) refueling receptacle for boom on top (dorsal) side of fuselage. It does look like a C-130 at first glimpse.
DeleteT-tail - it's an A-400
DeleteI am by no means an aviation ex-spurt but rode many a mile in C-130's back in the day. Lookit the tail and lookit the wingspan and lookit the snout on that contraption. No way is that a C-130.
DeleteHas a high mounted horizontal stabilizer, like an A-400, and the cockpit glass is also not like a C-130's.
Delete#7 is pretty slick.
ReplyDeleteI use the same set-up with a can smeared with peanut butter with a couple inches of anti-freeze in the bucket of my Finlander Mouse Traps, I can see where rats would merit a lid.
#1 Been there Done that. I wonder if the Assistant Gunner Knows he can get compensated for the bad ear plugs. You have to be deaf as a post or have really good hearing protection to drop mortar round and NOT cover your ears (even with Earplugs in). 11C Mortarman 1975 to 1978.
ReplyDeleteYep, and that 120 is a LOUD mf’er.
DeleteJust like someone shot a 12 ga. shotgun right next to your ear, even if your 20 feet away!!!grayman
Delete#6 I have been doing it wrong these many years fishing for bass
ReplyDeleteLast one is ALE-47 pod spitting flares. This is what creates 'angel wings'...
ReplyDelete#2 - damn, a well taught dog - how'd he learn to do that ?
ReplyDelete#9 - The rhino backing up should have been a clue a charge was imminent ("Move bitch MOVE"!)
I have a Belgian Malinois that does that. He chased a squirrel right up a tree, but was not a match for the squirrel that could hop from branch to branch.
Delete#5 "Hold my beer"
ReplyDelete#5 wonder how many teeth he lost?
ReplyDelete#6 - I wanna know where he's fishing at!
ReplyDelete6 Billy bucket lips for sure.
ReplyDeleteIf I got my planes right ya sit backward in them things. I flew from Nam to the Philippines on a med vac to Guam in 69. It was a flying coffin. Body bags stacked to the ceiling and strapped in with big leather straps and buckles. At the end of the plane, the way I was facing, they had gurneys set up and docs were operating on soldiers in flight. When they lost one they bagged and tagged and threw em up on the pile like cord wood. I remember hitting turbulence and those bodies hitting the leather straps and making a cracking noise. I thought they we all gonna fall on us. In the Philippines we went to a Red Cross Center in the middle of a field. I think they put us on a different plane to Guam and I remember none of that flight nor the first few days on Guam. Wish it was the flying coffin that I didn't remember.
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