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    Zvezda C-130

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    Got the Talon guide you sent. It was awesome! We have 64-0559 here at Kirtland.

    The bottle nose T1's were with the 1st SOS at Kadena when I was out there (1993-1996)

    before they converted to the MC-130H. 

    The flight deck does have the FE seat between the pilots and 2 Navigators sat side by side 

    on the right side of the flight deck. The bunks were removed. In the cargo compartment

    up front by the bulkhead (FS 245) was where the radio operator and electronic warfare 

    officer sat. Facing forward and they had a black curtain they could pull around them so

    it would keep  the light down from the equipment and keep people from seeing what was 

    going on. The FLIR ball was behind the nose gear and was retracted up into the fuselage

    before the gear went down! The hole was covered by the aft nose gear door. 

    They served their country with honor!

    Thanks again for the guide!

     

    Cheers...Ron

    Zvezda C-130

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    The Black/green Talon (actually SAC bomber tan) had the full color 15" national insignia aft of the paratroop doors.

    Nothing on the wings upper or lower. The tail number on the tail was just the number with no USAF above it. 

     

    Cheers...Ron

    Zvezda C-130

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    The MC-130E also had the aerial refuling receptacle and the slipway markings were white. Next weekend at Hurlburt

    Field is the MC-130H Combat Talon II retirement ceremony. I remember seeing them being built at E-Systems at 

    Greenville, Texas in 1989. 

     

    Cheers...Ron

    Zvezda C-130

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    There is a company that makes paint masks for the MC-130E black/green paint. There are enough pictures of that scheme

    on the net that you can do it. Markings they just had the tail number on the tail. No USAF above it and national insignia

    on the fuselage only. Just forward of the paratroop doors there were 8 slots for the old chaff dispensors. Prop foul lines

    from the wingtips to the nose. The 8th SOS is going back to being a MC-130J squadron.

     

    Cheers...Ron

    Zvezda C-130

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    3 hours ago, ST0RM said:

    @aircommando130 Hey Ron. What say you, to grafting the Italeri MC-130E bits to a Zvezda C-130H? Feasible? Or too much trouble? Same A-15 engines as an H. Obviously a GTC instead of the APU. Plus the Talon bits and structural extras. I've got a set of Flight Path AAR pods. 
    Just thinking out loud. I've had the Italeri kit for so long, I'd like to build my first "love" in the AF and would like to use an updated base kit, of possible. 

     

    I think it would be possible. The Fulton nose would probably fit since the Zvezda kit has 3 radomes. The RWR tail would fit...the the QRC-84-02 pods will fit the external

    tanks. I  think the kit has the GTC panel in addition to the APU extended wheel well pod. I have thought about doing the same thing but a T1 in Black/Green paint and 

    no refueling pods. I have the flightpath pre MOD-90 Talon parts. We have 64-0559 here at Kirtland.

     

    Cheers...Ron

    Zvezda C-130

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    Those are awesome herks! Really like the Israeli 130. I have the -30 and 

    two of the E/H's to build. The -30 is gonna be a "what if" flying with 

    Southwest Airlines Cargo. And the E/H will be a SEA painted one before

    that tail number was our slick herk at Kadena. The other may be a Israeli

    Herk from the Entebbee raid.

     

    Cheers...Ron

    HC-130N external upper ramp detail

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    You can get by with some thin angle on the door. They had some gusset plates every

    few feet to give it strength. The carriage rolled out on the door with the MA-1 rescue kit

    on it and then dropped all 5 bundles about 1 second apart. 

    HC-130N external upper ramp detail

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    Greetings all...yes those are pictures from the old HC fuselage trainer here at Kirtland. She's long gone now.

    But he flare tube would hold the parachute flare in a spring loaded ejector. the lanyard hooked to a clip inside the tube

    to ignite the flare when it left the tube. That's a door on the outside...if it opened the flare would eject. It was powered by hydraulic 

    pressure from the aircraft. There were 3 panels to fire flares. You can see some bolt holes on either side of the tubes where the ODS

    rail mounted to the door. We had the same flare launcher in the MC-130P but didn't use it...except to maybe jettison the honey bucket

    bag out over the ocean. LOL! 

     

    Cheers...Ron

    WC-130A Rainmaker

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    Today is the anniversary of the first flight of the first production C-130A.

    April 7th 1955...and Lockheed is still sending the 130 down the production

    line! 53-3129 eventually became an AC-130A gunship and served time in

    with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing with 16th SOS. She currently is on display

    at the AF Armament museum at Eglin AFB.

     

    Cheers...Ron

    WC-130A Rainmaker

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    That station looks to be aft of the right wheel well. I can see the 

    seat bar for the wheel well in the picture. That guys got some 

    big eyebrows too! LOL!

     

    Cheers...Ron

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