soc.veterans

"Ron" wrote in message
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> 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.

I think I heard something about that I remember one that lost a prop but
don't know about the engine. I do remember hearing about one having to land
on 2 engines may be the same thing you are talking about.
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