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Very nice F-16I...I wonder what it would look like over a 48th scale Iranian reactor.

That NACA scoop that you filled in on the right wheel well is the A/C inlet for the pack in the wheelwell...the "H" has the duct on the end of the fairing. Same for that new scoop on the right forward fuselage...flight deck A/C intake. The MC-130E upgraded to the H model air conditioning packs so they added the scoop on the forward fuselage but left the old one in the wheelwell. You are absolutely right about it being a "slick"130...I should probably start with my old slick C-130E...63-7842 was our slick at Kadena. I wanted to build it in the old SEA paint either when it was in TAC or just aft

I was looking at it last night. I've got a spare right fuselage half from my stretch L-100 project. I'm going flying with my brother in law this morning and when I get back I'll get out the scriber and start cutting the right wheel well away. I've already started on the engine extension for my E and looking at the J engines they will need extending too.

When you moved the center window up did you cut a square out and flip it over and then fill it back in? It looks good so far...I guess now you'll want me to walk out and measure the side hatch...I should of done that yesterday when I was out there! I need that measurement for my "J" model. Also...how far did you extend the wheelwell on the right and left side? Ron

Well, let's see...we could put 8 F-5E's in there...4 down each side and I think it was 10 Cobra's...5 down each side. They were chained down on a big platform so we could roll them off on to a K-Loader. Then the Bell guys there in Iran would lift them off and put them on the ground and roll them into a hanger and put them back together...stub wings and rotor blades. I made a bunch of trips to Tehran, Shiraz and a couple of other places I can't spell!! Hauling Cobra's, Huey's, F-5E and F's and some Tomcat parts and equipment. I still have some Iranian money with the Shaw on it in a box...probab

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Very nice Cobra...Way back when Iran was our friend I'd fly to the Bell plant in Amarillo, Tx and load up the old C-5 "A-model" with Cobra gunships and fly them to Iran. Only then they had I.IA.A. on the tail boom with the Iranian flag on the tail and a red background squadron decal up by the cockpits. That all came to a halt in November of 1979.

"Two-Six" is sitting on the ramp here at Kirtland. They spent a lot of time going to airshows last year. The 8th SOS (former MC-130E squadron) is getting down to business with some out of the country deployments. Nice to finally see a CV-22B built up. I have that Wolfpack decal sheet for mine as well.

Your package is in the mail along with the engine part. I also sent a close up of the QRC pod that mounts on the external tank. Still looking for my Pave Low pictures...

I'll wrap it and send it with the other stuff.

So that would be part number 89?

I may have one in my spare box. Let me look and I'll get back to ya. I have another package of stuff to mail to you as well.

Airshow's were always so much fun. Talking with the crowd and other airplane crewmembers...trading patches and looking at the "babes" that wander around. That Skyraider is nice looking and I always liked the high G fog off of a fighter.

Watching an SR-71 takeoff was always an awesome sight and sound. Watching those shock diamonds out the back as the gear was coming up and the fog vapor in the high humidity at Kadena just made you proud to be an American and crewing Lockheed products. I was a C-5 guy at the time.

Me too...however my dogs decided it was a good time to bust a few boards out of the fence to eat the neighbors cat...so I had to go and get some stuff to fix that and try to watch the Coca Cola 600...at least right now my Budweiser Dodge is running 2nd....

That's a great start on the F-105. When you think South East Asia air combat you can only think of the F-105 and all the iron it carried North. It will be a fitting tribute to the big, rugged Thunderchief.

When I was a C-5 guy (Yes, I flew the big jet) we went to Aerospace America in OKC. They did the big airpower demonstration with the A-7 guys and all the ground pyro. Did you jump out of a guard 130 from Will Rogers ANG base? Could of been the same show in the late 80's!

The 8th has a couple of them modified from what I hear. I heard that they had a feed problem with the ammo feeder twisting around to get to the gun. Some gunner will fix that with a steel soup can or something...G.I.'s always come up with a cheap fix that works. On Memorial Day please remember those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and for those who still have not come home. From my conflict (Desert Storm) Navy Captain Scott Speicher...F-18 Hornet pilot from VFA-81 flew off the USS Saratoga on 17 Jan 91 and never returned. Still listed as MIA.

Very nice CV-22B...I ordered the Wolfpack decals for my CV-22 as well. The CV guys here said the 8th SOS was out here not to long ago and had one with the belly turret installed and that they have pulled all the seats out of the cargo compartment for more room and lighten it up some. I don't know how much that gun added to the weight of the airplane. We combat loaded troops in the 130 a lot...no seats and just sit the troops on the floor and have them hook in to a floor tie down ring for restraint or put a 5000 lb strap across them. I see the CV-22's here and they go to the dirt aux fields and

We did an airshow in the MC at Townsville,Australia. We were already down there doing some work with our 1st of the 1st SF group and the Australian SAS. I think it was HAHO/HALO airdrops. For the airshow we loaded up a SAS "Rat Patrol" looking Land Rover and gave them some infill/exfill training. We came in and landed and on touchdown opened up the back end and used max reverse on the props to stop it pretty quick...offloaded the vehicle on the runway in front of the crowd...closed up and did a max effort takeoff and departed the area only to come back across the airfield at about 75 feet and

Those lights are pod illumination lights. On "no moon" or or poor visability (over the Yellow Sea off the coast of NK with a cloud deck down to 500 feet) we could turn those lights on and they would shine on the pod to help the reciever see the hose and pod. Usually if they asked for it we'd just give it minimum lighting and when they'd get on the hose we'd turn them off to keep from blinding the reciever pilot.

Dez...I see the package I sent made it OK. I hope that was what you were looking for with the radome on the MC-130H and the paint schemes for the other stuff. Take Care...Ron

Very nice DIRCM pod...reminds me of a gal in the frozen food section of the grocery store in the summer with a tank top on.

Very nice DIRCM pod...reminds me of a gal in the frozen food section of the grocery store in the summer with a tank top on.

Hey Dez...Just so you know they have pulled the big USAF and those big Navy style numbers off the tail and gone to the small MC-130 type USAF the small 5 digit numbers under it. All of them here at Kirtland have been changed. Somebody was asking about a nick name for the Osprey...we who don't fly it (us MC-130 guys) call it the "helo death plane".