Technical Photos



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    Tech. Sgt. James Vehlies inspects wires for possible chaffing October 30, 2007 in Southwest Asia. Some of the oldest C-130s in the Air Force fleet fly missions in support of operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. Sergeant Vehlies is an electro-environmental systems craftsman with the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Phillip Butterfield]
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    Airman 1st Class Paige Sager, (from left) Senior Airman David Garcia and Tech. Sgt. James Vehlies examine element connectors on a high-power antenna October 30, 2007 in Southwest Asia. The Airmen perform flightline maintenance on EC-130 Compass Call aircraft from the 43rd Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron. Airmen Sager and Garcia are crew chiefs, and Sergeant Vehlies is an electro-environmental systems craftsman. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Phillip Butterfield]
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    Senior Airman Christopher Nichols inspects an antenna array on an EC-130 Compass Call for delamination October 30, 2007 in Southwest Asia. Airman Nichols is a communication-navigation specialist with the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Phillip Butterfield]
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    Senior Airman Michael Bruke and Airman 1st Class Britney Warner install a multi-disc brake on a C-130E Hercules October 30, 2007 in Southwest Asia. Most C-130s here have been in service since the Vietnam War. Both Airmen are crew chiefs with the 386th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. [USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Phillip Butterfield]
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    Corporal Marc Latrille, an Aviation Systems Technician with 8 Air Maintenance Squadron, monitors the fuel tank levels while fuelling Hercules aircraft CC-130 at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas on December 1, 2008. [photo by Corporal David Hardwick]
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    Master Sergeant Jim Goostree, a member of the Tennessee Air National Guard's 118th Airlift Wing, examines the engine of a Nigerian C-130 as part of the effort to restore the aircraft to flying condition. Once able to fly, it will go to a repair Depot in Europe for a more extensive overhaul. The mission is part of an ongoing military-to-military engagement between 17th Air Force (U.S. Air Forces Africa) and Nigeria. [USAF photo by Lt.-Col. David MacKenzie]
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    (From left) SrA Korey King and Stefan Eiermann, 774th EAS loadmasters program the Wireless Gate Release System before an airdrop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on August 1, 2014. The squadron completed an airdrop for the Afghan National Army using the new WGRS. [USAF photo by SSgt. Evelyn Chavez]
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    MSgt. Bradley Nulf, 774th EAS evaluator loadmaster programs the Wireless Gate Release System before an airdrop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on August 1, 2014. Loadmasters are using a new system for airdrops, the WGRS keeps them safely behind payloads exiting the aircraft. [USAF photo by SSgt. Evelyn Chavez]
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    Airmen from the 41st AMXS, at Little Rock AFB, hold the straps tight on a Rolls-Royce AE2100 turboprop engine as it is removed from a C-130J Super Hercules transport at Fort Sill's Henry Post Army Air Field on November 29, 2012. Soldiers from 168th Brigade Support Battalion provided one of their cranes to help lift the engine from the wing. The plane was grounded for repairs after developing engine trouble during touch-and-go landings. [Photo by Ben Sherman, Fort Sill]
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    Rolls-Royce AE 2100 Aero engine. [Photo by Rolls-Royce]
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    CAE Medallion-6000 visual system showing two C-130Js flying through a valley in Scotland. [Photo CAE]
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    A1C Spencer Everitt, left, and SrA Kyle Wilson, right, both with the 374th AMXS, steady the blades of a C-130H engine while it is secured for transportation, April 29, 2015 at Yokota AB. The process of removing a single engine took approximately 45 minutes to complete. [USAF photo by A1C Elizabeth Baker]
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    Members with the 374th Maintenance Squadron and the 374th AMXS work as a team to transport the engine of a C-130 Hercules, April 29, 2015 at Yokota AB. [USAF photo by A1C Elizabeth Baker]
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    Rick Barrett, an AMARG sheet metal expert, removes a truss mount’s lower attach bolts as part of the required OW-13 inspection on a C-130E outer wing. The refurbished wing will be sent to Robins AFB, in support of the M-130H programmed maintenance depot effort. [Air Force photo]
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    USAF C-130H #81-0631 from 154 TS is mounted with a Northrup Grumman LITENING pod targeting system as part of an ANG Air Force Reserve Test Center program to develop a highly-accurate air drop and reconnaissance system. [ANG photo by MSgt. Chris A. Durney]