C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:04 pm

APG85 wrote:That plane never had a "Roman Nose"...

We've got a bunch of pictures of it throughout its service life, and I've never seen it with Roman nose either.
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:13 pm

If anyone is interested, a Mr. Jerry Abel has posted a number of pictures and videos on his facebook page, documenting the project from before getting it ready for flight, to fire up to takeoff.

https://www.facebook.com/jerry.abel.14
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 8:32 am

JohnB wrote:Circa 1997 an A Model was put on display near NSA in Maryland as a memorial to the crew lost when an RC-130 was shot down by the Russians in the early 60s (they do seem to love shooting down unarmed aircraft).
It was still active at that time, before putting it on display they found a set of three-blade "A" props.

I wonder where they found those (does the AF Museum store stuff like that?) and I was impressed that someone notice and took the time to make it correct.


Send me a PM and $100k and you can have your own set of 0 time props.
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:00 am

Spectre_I wrote:If anyone is interested, a Mr. Jerry Abel has posted a number of pictures and videos on his facebook page, documenting the project from before getting it ready for flight, to fire up to takeoff.

https://https://www.facebook.com/jerry.abel.14


Link doesn't work...
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:15 am

APG85 wrote:
Spectre_I wrote:If anyone is interested, a Mr. Jerry Abel has posted a number of pictures and videos on his facebook page, documenting the project from before getting it ready for flight, to fire up to takeoff.

https://https://www.facebook.com/jerry.abel.14


Link doesn't work...


Remove the first https:// -

https://www.facebook.com/jerry.abel.14
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:14 am

Great stuff...!!!!!
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:15 pm

APG85 wrote:
Spectre_I wrote:If anyone is interested, a Mr. Jerry Abel has posted a number of pictures and videos on his facebook page, documenting the project from before getting it ready for flight, to fire up to takeoff.

https://www.facebook.com/jerry.abel.14


Link doesn't work...


Fixed! Ooops.
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:42 pm

I'm sure the guys on C-130 Hercules.net would like to hear the story & pictures of this plane...

http://www.c-130hercules.net/
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Thu Nov 26, 2015 7:05 pm

APG85 wrote:I'm sure the guys on C-130 Hercules.net would like to hear the story & pictures of this plane...

http://www.c-130hercules.net/

If you're already a member of that community, please feel free to share it. I can help fill in (most) of the holes. Getting it ready to ferry was just part one. Now we'll have to strip it of all the good working stuff we put on it, then start over with restoration. This is going to be a long ride, and I'll do my best to keep everyone updated.
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:00 am

It's on the Herc site now. Also, a nice set of pictures here:

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/article46567085.html
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:08 pm

Nice video of it put together by one of our restoration guys.

https://vimeo.com/146738691
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:00 am

Nice video and excellent soundtrack! Change the words Chu Lai to Al Taji and MAC to AMC and the song is timeless.

Good news story to see this Herk saved and a Horsemen bird at that, Bravo!

Ken
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:35 am

Neat project. It looks like a lot of work...all of the cargo compartment insulation is gone. Too bad you can't get into AMARG and strip what you need out of another Herc...
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:52 pm

APG85 wrote:Neat project. It looks like a lot of work...all of the cargo compartment insulation is gone. Too bad you can't get into AMARG and strip what you need out of another Herc...

We've got the insulation, and darn near everything else we'll need. We should be able to put this one back to near complete. :)
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Re: C-130 Castle Air Museum gets a new project.

Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:20 pm

Spectre_I wrote:
APG85 wrote:Neat project. It looks like a lot of work...all of the cargo compartment insulation is gone. Too bad you can't get into AMARG and strip what you need out of another Herc...

We've got the insulation, and darn near everything else we'll need. We should be able to put this one back to near complete. :)


That's awesome...!
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