[Milsurplus] Old heavies as flit guns

[D C Macdonald]

Not sure exactly when it happened because the
death of the Pope has obscured almost everything
else, but we lost a C-130 in Albania a few days ago.
Nine crew all dead.  The Electronic Warfare Officer
had recently graduated from that school and was
a friend and student of my son-in-law at Randolph AFB.

Mac, K2GKK/5
USAF, retired



----Original Message Follows----
From: Joe Foley <redmenaced at yahoo.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Old heavies as flit guns
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:05:00 -0700 (PDT)

YAH!  When the C-130's, I guess, fly by here you'd
better duck!  They are practicing low-level flying and
don't fly over the trees and hills, they fly BETWEEN
them!!

Joe


--- Bob Wilder <bwils at bellsouth.net> wrote:

 > As Todd said, there is nothing that will replace the
 > sound of those old
 > recips.  We have a Coast Guard C-130 that is in here
 > quite often and I
 > always look to see it.   Same as an old C-47 that
 > appears every so often.
 > The R2800 and R1850 have distinctive sounds and can
 > not be mistaken.  The
 > other is the sound of a Huey. On my tour in Vietnam
 > used to hear 65 Huey's
 > take off at dawn each morning and that bird also has
 > a distinctive sound. I
 > was at Bien Thuy (Paddy 35) and the VNAF had a bunch
 > of Hueys.