soc.veterans

On Apr 3, 7:59 am, "lostparts" wrote:
> "Daryl Hunt" wrote in message
>
> news:47f45e5b$0$26102$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
>
> > "william boyd" wrote in message
> >news:47f453d3$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> >> The C-133 Turbo prop aircraft could do something that none of the pure
> >> jet cargo aircraft can do. We had a central American exercise in Pureto
> >> Cabezas Nicaragus requiring Air traffic control and weather equipment to
> >> be airlifted in. The runway was a scant 4,000' X 150' dirt. We departed
> >> Tinker AFB and landed at in Panama, now get this, the purpose was for
> >> defueling to reduce the landing weight. An adequate amount of fuel was
> >> retained to make it to and from Pureto Cabezas air field. We landed,
> >> unloaded the mobile control tower, generators, weather intercept van and
> >> vehicles. While the pilot backed the aircraft up with reverse pitch. We
> >> erected the control tower and had it operational by the time he was ready
> >> for take off, I cleared for take off. The same procedure was followed
> >> three weeks later when he came to pick us up. Now that was a fun
> >> deployment.
>
> > Ah, the days of the TDY Bums. Remember them well. I didn't serve on the
> > Flying Wieny Wagon and had to settle for C-124s and C-130s but danged
> > those were fun times.
>
> I worked C-133's at Dover in 1964 early 1965 at the time we had 2 birds
> crash one in Nov 1964 Goose Bay and the other Jan 1965 I think it was Wake
> Island. We worked 12 hour shifts 7 days a week from Nov 1964 to the time I
> left for Nam in March of 1965 was glad to get out of Dover. Worked transit
> at Danang mostly C-130s then went to Germany 5 years worked C-130As came
> back to Little Rock 1 1/2 years C-130E's went back to Germany to my old
> outfit 5 more years they had picked up C-130B's Then came here to Barksdale
> 1979 to 1985 working Buff's B-52's.

My grandfather got MAC safety award one year, may have been 65 or 66,
for saving the C-133
when he lost an engine on takeoff and a prop from another engine too.