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.
Friday, December 19, 2025
Main landing gear deployment of a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy.
I never got to fly on a C-130 while in Vietnam but I did hitch a ride on a C-123. Those airplanes gained their notoriety in Central America and the CIA flying out of Mena, Arkansas.
I flew back from Japan on one once, before the Vietnam crash got the Air Force to stop using them for military space available travel. You went up a sort of circular staircase to the top deck and all the seats faced the rear. It was a great way to fly, nothing like a C-130 for sure.
An old joke from my days in the AF....
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It means that both C-5s are broke, but they only have one set of Jack's.
azlibertarian
I never got to fly on a C-130 while in Vietnam but I did hitch a ride on a C-123. Those airplanes gained their notoriety in Central America and the CIA flying out of Mena, Arkansas.
ReplyDeleteI flew back from Japan on one once, before the Vietnam crash got the Air Force to stop using them for military space available travel. You went up a sort of circular staircase to the top deck and all the seats faced the rear. It was a great way to fly, nothing like a C-130 for sure.
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