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May 4^th, 2011 at 1:02pm

gtirob01 Offline
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So my VW club had a gathering this past weekend at the Air Force museum for some car and plane photos. As we were just hanging out for a while, a worker from the museum came to check out all the cars. He was a cool guy and we somehow got talking about the AC-130 that they have. Many of the guys there with their cars were currently in the Air Force, and work on C-130's... so the worker quizzed them. He asked if anyone knew the significance of that particular AC-130. Nobody knew. He went on to tell us that this was THE first production C-130 period... and the first to be converted as an AC-130! A great bit of history that I drive by every day!

Then the worker asked if we wanted to go inside it! Absolutely we all said! This is rare, that they open it up. I've been to the museum many times, and have never seen it open. So, here are a few pictures of what I saw.

The outside

Cockpit. A bit bright due to sunlight coming through the sunshade

Small room inside the cargo bay where the weapons officers did their work. Hard to tell because of the glare, but the blue plaque says, "The First Lady" and the tail number 53-3129

Gotta have some guns in there!

And a little bonus
http://www.simviation.com/phpupload/uploads/1304583324.jpg

A great write-up on this aircraft
http://www.spectre-association.org/First_Lady_129.htm

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Reply #1 - May 4^th, 2011 at 2:13pm

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Well done...thanks for taking us along... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #2 - May 4^th, 2011 at 8:28pm

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Very nice pictures! Those 105 howies look like they can do a little damage!

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #3 - May 4^th, 2011 at 11:09pm

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Very cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #4 - May 4^th, 2011 at 11:40pm

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Very nice Rob.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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