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USAF JC-130B #58-0719. [photo uploaded by fixit]
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USAF JC-130B #61-0963 of the 6593rd Test Squadron in 1962. [USAF photo]
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USAF C-130B #58-0719 in flight. [USAF photo]
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USAF C-130A #55-0037 at the now-closed Chanute AFB Museum in October 2015. [Photo by Christopher Brame]
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USAF MC-130H #86-1699 takes off from Kirtland and the 58th SOW en route to Hurlburt Field, where it will be assigned to the 19th SOS. [USAF photo by Todd Berenger]
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Maj. Jonathan Niebes, aircraft commander, and TSgt. Daniel Schrodt, loadmaster, both with the 550th SOS, prepare Kirtland's last MC-130H Combat Talon II, aircraft #86-1699, for departure to Hurburt Field on July 29 at Kirtland AFB. [USAF photo by Todd Berenger]
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USAF MC-130H #89-0280 Combat Talon II assigned to the 1st SOS, Kadena AB, unloads U.S. Marines assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Camp Lejeune, N.C., during a long-range airfield seizure on July 20, 2016, at Iejima airfield, Japan. [USAF photo by SrA Peter Reft]
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USAF MC-130H #89-0280 Combat Talon II assigned to the 1st SOS, Kadena AB, takes off during a long-range airfield seizure exercise on July 20, 2016, at Lejima airfield, Japan. [USAF photo by SrA Peter Reft]
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USAF MC-130H #88-0191 Combat Talon II, assigned to the 1st SOS out of Kadena AB, Japan, makes a low pass before dropping a container delivery system over Malemute drop zone during Red Flag Alaska 16-1 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on May 11, 2016. [USAF photo by Alejandro Pena]
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USAF MC-130H #88-0191 Combat Talon II, assigned to the 1st SOS out of Kadena AB, Japan, prepares to drop a heavy pallet over Malemute drop zone during Red Flag Alaska 16-1 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on May 11, 2016. [USAF photo by Alejandro Pena]
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USAF C-130E #63-811 (63-7811 or 63-9811?) goes airborne on a hot sunny day at DaNang Airbase in Vietnam - 1972. Notice that the main landing gear already almost fully retracted, and the nose gear in transient with the nose gear doors still open ... copilot hot on the landing gear level. Getting landing gear retracted quickly important on takeoff with heavy loads in order to reduce drag and allow for much improved climb performance. [photo by Robert D Young]
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USAF C-130E #63-7861 of the 37th TAS in flight over Vietnam 1972 probably at about 10,000 feet altitude. We were not flying in some kind of planned formation … just basically sneaked up on buddies in other aircraft. Although there was air traffic control (ARTC) in Vietnam (Invert was one) it was very relaxed especially during enroute segments of the flight. Often flew visual flight rules VFR while avoiding thunderstorms where as always all eyes in cockpit on lookout for other aircraft traffic especially when advised by ground control of other planes in the area. [photo by Robert D Young]
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Three proud tails of C-130E aircraft in protective revetments at Tan Son Nhut Airbase Vietnam in 1972. The LK is from Little Rock AFB, Arkansa. The DL is Ching Chuan Kang AB, Taiwan assigned to the 776th TAS. The DY tail code is Dyess AFB, Texas assigned to the 346th TAS. [photo by Robert D Young]
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Motley C-130 crewmembers hanging out on tail ramp in between flights. Somewhere in Vietnam – 1972. Captain Ed standing to right with Navigator Major ? and Flight Engineer E.P. sitting next to Ed. Must have had interesting cargo because we had 3 Loadmasters (usually only 1) … with one standing between the other two sitting with good hats. I’m seated far left. Most of us are wearing the olive drab canvas topped jungle boots which were a bit cooler in the heat, although we were fortunate not to depend on other features of the boot that the ground troops needed: quick drying from mud and water, and steel plated soles for protection against booby traps. Most of us also sporting GI issue sunglasses. [photo by Robert D Young]
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USAF C-130E baking in midday sun at Phu Cat Airbase 1971 located along the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. Coastal hills and blossoming thunderstorms in the background. You can see a crewmember seated on the ground in the shade of the wing … while parked on the ramp the inside of the aircraft was like an oven with temps well over 100 degrees. Same heat was true during taxi and takeoff as the air conditioning was ineffective until after liftoff when engines really got going to provide the AC energy. To the rear of the plane a tractor fork lift is moving a large pallet of cargo into position for loading. [photo by Robert D Young]