Low Flying Hercules
Jul 10, 2022 23:29:57 #
The wild land fires have finally arrived in northern Colorado. Actually the fire is in southern Wyoming but the tankers are flying out the Metro Airport in Broomfield, CO. The C-130 Hercules has been one of my favorite planes to photograph. The Coulson company has purchased two of them and overhauled them to become fire tankers. One arrived in the Denver area Saturday night and I was able to grab a couple of shots of it Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
Photo #1- Tanker 131 departs the airport late Saturday on it's first mission. It then spent the night and flew again Sunday.
Photo #2- Tanker 131 departs Sunday afternoon on it's first mission of the day. That's the Front Range of the Rockies in the background.
Photo #1- Tanker 131 departs the airport late Saturday on it's first mission. It then spent the night and flew again Sunday.
Photo #2- Tanker 131 departs Sunday afternoon on it's first mission of the day. That's the Front Range of the Rockies in the background.
Jul 10, 2022 23:46:58 #
Jul 11, 2022 00:35:12 #
Jul 11, 2022 06:10:07 #
Mojaveflyer wrote:
The wild land fires have finally arrived in northe... (show quote)
Great photo's James...as a side note once the current contract with the USAF runs its course, the C-130 will have been in service for a century.
Jul 11, 2022 06:11:50 #
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Jul 11, 2022 06:51:12 #
Nice shots of a truely great aircraft!
I apologize for posting a photo on your thread, but, I came across this photo yesterday on the web and when I saw the title "Low Flying Hercules" I just can't help myself! I would love to take that ride!
I apologize for posting a photo on your thread, but, I came across this photo yesterday on the web and when I saw the title "Low Flying Hercules" I just can't help myself! I would love to take that ride!
Jul 11, 2022 07:25:44 #
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Jul 11, 2022 09:24:47 #
Those are great shots of a great aircraft. I can say from experience, however that the C-130 Hercules has a good, LOUD voice. To say those 4 big engines make one heck of a lotta noise is a serious understatement; myself and ten guys from my platoon (A Troop, 3rd Squadron, 5th U.S. Cavalry) flew in one clear across the country, from Fort Drum, NY to our home base in Fort Lewis, WA where we were an element of the 9th Infantry Division. We'd gone to Drum to do gunnery alongside a National Guard armored unit (using their tanks of course!). We made the trip out in a C-141 Starlifter, which is dead quiet compared to the 130 we flew back in. It was a cool plane to fly in, but Wow, what a racket...
Jul 11, 2022 09:46:59 #
Jul 11, 2022 09:48:26 #
G. Crook
Loc: Linden, TX
I spent many hours flying on the “herkies” out of Yokota AB, Japan. Can you say “”ear plugs” or “ear muffs”? In my case it was usually a headset.
Jul 11, 2022 10:48:00 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
Mojaveflyer wrote:
The wild land fires have finally arrived in northe... (show quote)
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Excellent shots !
Peter
Jul 11, 2022 11:04:55 #
sjb3 wrote:
Those are great shots of a great aircraft. I can ... (show quote)
The C-130 is a hearing wrecker if ever there was one. According to the acoustical engineers the only safe place in the plane for hearing concerns is in the pilot's seats. The flight engineer sits between the pilots and back about 2 feet and that seat is not in the safe zone. However, pilots love exciting toys and the 130 is about as exciting as it gets. The gunnery crews are effected by motion more than they realize as the pilots yank that A/C through it paces. I once was at the controls when a 25,000 pound concrete bathtub went out the back door. My instructor warned me but not enough. It was the wildest few seconds in all my 8,500 hrs, of flight. The pilots seats drop about 8' in an instant. Nothing prepares one for their first time.
Jul 11, 2022 11:13:10 #
LFingar wrote:
Nice shots of a truely great aircraft!
I apologize for posting a photo on your thread, but, I came across this photo yesterday on the web and when I saw the title "Low Flying Hercules" I just can't help myself! I would love to take that ride!
I apologize for posting a photo on your thread, but, I came across this photo yesterday on the web and when I saw the title "Low Flying Hercules" I just can't help myself! I would love to take that ride!
Put a Jeep on the gate, with two guys asleep on it. You had a wonderful window view when the gate dropped unexpectedly. I do say that until that day, I never saw anyone levitate and fly forward like those two guys. (Thought it only happened in cartoons.) Did not drop their "16"s! But the view beyond them was "panographic". Even a following C130 lit a little flame on one of their engines. There even was some chatter over our radios on the vehicles.
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