BWJones's Journal: C-130 Hercules

New JonesBlog update. C-130 Hercules

2 C-130 anecdotes...

[Shadow Wrought]

A good friend of mine is an airline pilot and related both C-130 tales below to me, the first is funny, the second just cool.

His friend in college worked as a lineboy at a local airport. Despite working at an airport, he had limited aviation knowledge. He mainly parked plnes at the local flight school which had primarily C-152's C-172's, and C-182's ( you can see where this is going;-). So, being told to clear a space for an incoming C-130 he made a space for a plane about the size of a C-152. After all, a C-182 is bigger than a C-172, which is bigger yet than a C-152. So a C-130 wouldn't be much bigger than a C-152, right? So later that morning he watches a C-130 land and slowly start taxiing. He asks a co-worker, "Hey, what kind of plane is that?"

Needless to say much frantic rearranging of small planes took place;-)

My friends father was a pilot for a number of years and flew C-130's for TransAmerica back when they had an air freight division. One of the place he flew into was NASA, and he was proud that one of the very first set of tire marks on the long shuttle runway belonged to his C-130;-)

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[smittyoneeach]

Dude, the 4th photo from the bottom: it's ZZ Top meets the Hulk!

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[BWJones]

That is Tom. Everybody loves Tom. He could tear your arms out of their sockets, but everybody loves Tom.

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[Shadow Wrought]

That is Tom. Everybody loves Tom. He could tear your arms out of their sockets, but everybody loves Tom

"I have a new strategy R2, let Tom win." ;-)

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[BWJones]

Heh heh heh. Yeah, that sounds about right even amongst some of the junior airmen in the Air Force. I am sure the rearranging was taking place while the C-130 was holding short with engines running...

As for TransAmerica.... the holding company? They had an air freight division? I did not know that.

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[Alioth]

I heard a joke that was sort of put the other way around, about some guy trying to impress a chick at an airport where he'd just done his student solo cross country. She asked, "What do you fly?" to which he replied, "A C-150". "What's one of those?" "Well, you see that over there (points at Hercules) - that's a C-130, and I fly a C-150".