And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This ain't your normal Herky-bird. You're looking at the pointy-end of a MC-130H Combat Talon II. Very special and unusual specimen. In-flight refueling into a C-130 is unusual. I spent a couple of years on another model C-130 that could receive fuel. I think that my pilots got a real kick out of coming smoking full power up behind the tanker, then pulling power. Tanker boom operators sometimes panicked seeing our high closure rate. But when those four (now six) big blades stopped pulling as much air, the plane really slowed down quickly. Wandering Neurons
It's an iconic aircraft. Maybe the LT will fly one?
ReplyDeleteThat'd be great, but we'll see.
DeleteIt does the job.
ReplyDeleteThis ain't your normal Herky-bird. You're looking at the pointy-end of a MC-130H Combat Talon II. Very special and unusual specimen.
ReplyDeleteIn-flight refueling into a C-130 is unusual. I spent a couple of years on another model C-130 that could receive fuel. I think that my pilots got a real kick out of coming smoking full power up behind the tanker, then pulling power. Tanker boom operators sometimes panicked seeing our high closure rate. But when those four (now six) big blades stopped pulling as much air, the plane really slowed down quickly.
Wandering Neurons