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Offline Swampman

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Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« on: January 30, 2012, 11:36:52 AM »
That's me (Ssgt) in the white cap with my back to the camera. This is from the cover of the Air Commando (Hurlburt Fld Newspaper)in 1980. We are working on an AC-130H Gunship. Note the ports for the 20mm Gatling Guns. That's an MC-130E Combat Talon in the background. They were used for Fulton Recovery rescues like the one seen in Green Berets with John Wayne and one of the James Bond movies with Sean Connery. I worked on them too. We are changing a Temp Datum Control Valve.
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 03:16:45 PM »
Great ole airplane, I spent about 10 years working the C-123 and C-130s,  then moved on to fighters and bombers.
 
I was on the F-111 program, (test and evaluation), then the B-1 and spent a short period working with the B-2.  My job was with the purchasing and testing of ground support equipment, I designed many of the tools currently used to maintain the B-1.
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 03:46:32 PM »
Cool picture!  Thanks for your service guys!  I went to an airshow at McConnell AFB one year and got to see some of those planes up close and personal.  Very impressive.
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 04:11:03 PM »
nice pics, never been on the gunship but jumped out of lots of 130,s, say swampman did that plane have the 105 cannon on it too.
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 04:13:21 PM »
A 40mm cannon and a 105mm cannon.
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 02:00:15 PM »
While I never was aboard the gunships I have a healthy respect for the C-130.  I was aboard one that got shot up pretty bad coming out of Beirut.  We crossed the Med to Turkey with only one inboard engine running. 
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 05:34:11 PM »
swampy though i seldom agree with you i do thoroughly enjoy your posts and it now seems we have something in common, I too was stationed at at Hurlburt Field what a great base I also hunted on Jackson Guard and have many great stories to go along with it, keep em comin bro!
 
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Re: Working on an AC-130H Gunship
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 11:21:10 PM »
I recently discovered that several of the planes that became Combat Talons once belonged to the CIA or "another agency" and were flown over Laos.
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