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Military aircraft you've flown on

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MililaniBuckeye

MililaniBuckeye

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    • Obviously this geared more towards current and prior military personnel and dependents thereof. What different types of military aircraft have you flown on? I've flown on:

    KC-10
    C-130
    C-135 (tanker, airborne command post, and DV transport versions)
    C-141 (original and stretched)
    C-5
    UH-1 Huey
    CH-47 Chinook

    The only heavy transport aircraft in the USAF inventory I haven't flown on yet is the C-17, and they just got eight of them here at Hickam. Too bad Space-A is so tough for retirees...
     
    I vote we have a new rule in this thread similar to other threads on the planet... no mentions without pics.. for those of us that have NO CLUE what you folks are talking about
     
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    NFBuck said:
    C-130
    KC-135
    C-5
    F-15E (incentive ride, and yes I puked :biggrin:)
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    Alaska-Air-National-Guard-C-130-on-Takeoff.JPG

    kc-135-dvic251.jpg

    c-5-DFST9803610_JPG.jpg

    f15e_tail.jpg
     
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    NJ-Buckeye said:
    I vote we have a new rule in this thread similar to other threads on the planet... no mentions without pics.. for those of us that have NO CLUE what you folks are talking about
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    Since photos of C-130, KC-135, C-5, and F-15 aircraft have been posted, here are photos of KC-10, C-141, C-5, UH-1, and CH-47 aircraft:

    C-130
    c-130_2.jpg


    C-141
    C-141-5.jpg


    C-5
    C-5_2.jpg


    UH-1
    Austarmy.iroquois.750pix.jpg


    CH-47
    chinook.jpg
     
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    CH53E
    ch53e.jpg


    CH46 Sea Knight
    CH46-10.jpg


    C-130
    c130-4.jpg


    C5 Galaxy
    C5_Galaxy-full.jpg


    AH1G Cobra Gunship
    AH1.jpg


    Most of it, taking off and landing from this baby. The LHA3 USS Belleau Wood. "Death Star 3"
    lha3_1.jpg


    Sadly.. I just learned that the USS Belleau Wood was decommissioned and sunk.
    lha3sink7.jpg


    This saddening news for me. I loved that ship.
     
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    MililaniBuckeye said:
    Obviously this geared more towards current and prior military personnel and dependents thereof. What different types of military aircraft have you flown on? I've flown on:

    KC-10
    C-130
    C-135 (tanker, airborne command post, and DV transport versions)
    C-141 (original and stretched)
    C-5
    UH-1 Huey
    CH-47 Chinook

    The only heavy transport aircraft in the USAF inventory I haven't flown on yet is the C-17, and they just got eight of them here at Hickam. Too bad Space-A is so tough for retirees...
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    Mili- I was on the flight deck of a C-17 when we got refuled from a KC135. It was in 1995 when they first came out. We were heading to Jordan. The crew was always good about dipping a wing into hostile air space so that we'd get that extra few hunded dollars for "hazardous duty pay."

    Other planes I have flewn on are C-5, C-141, C-130, KC-10, KC135...as you can tell, we dealt a lot with the cargo side of things.
     
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    How would a normal person go about getting on a military aircraft? I've always read about celebrities being flown on these fighter jets and other aircrafts, but I have no idea how a normal person could get to experience something like that. Any ideas?
     
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    A Beaver! From C'bus to Indiantown Gap

    A Sabreliner... while a Cadet (!)... some AF general took pity on me as I was trying to catch a hop back to Ohio from El Toro, CA. Nice set of wheels.

    Washington ANG C-119 Flying Boxcar from Mc Chord to Travis, every rivit rattling in that poor old bird, but when the girl friend calls, you go.

    A Caribou..with some ass jockies who thought they'd spook the army guy by cutting one engine while we were still clearing rubber trees at the end of the runway.

    C-123 Provider with an MP and a POW with a sand bag over his head riding in the seat opposite. Round came up through the bottom and right out the top. MP barfed into his spit shined, black lacquer, helmet liner. As soon as we rolled to a stop he dashed down the ramp heading for a trash barrel to continue his heaves and I wound up taking custody of the POW.

    Huey...duey and this Looey all over III Corps. Also Kiowa, Shithook and a Loach, the later along a known re-supply trail while tossing out chu hoi leaflets. Glad that wasn't my regular job.

    OV-10 Bronco... with Wing Commander Larrard, RAAF, at the controls, pulling his shift as division ALO. I had to drink with the all-Aussie crew the night before...my God can they put it away... sang Waltzing Matilda several hundred times, did not pass out but did end up with little red kangaroos taped all over back of uniform, rifle, web gear. Got to watch a fire fight from up above and then made two spotting round runs. Filled barf bag. It's a hell of a plane, but the second seat is very uncomfortable... it's right over the COG on the plane so all the Gs go right through you.

    The grasshopper thing that's flying in the opening minutes of MASH. Out over Put-in-Bay, from the Camp Perry rifle range.

    C-130 from Lockbourne (now Rickenbacker) to Pope. Jump? No thanks.

    Stretch C-141 from Cleveland John Hopkins to Stuttgart, in a nylon jump seat, staring at the door on a 5 ton truck and eating Cs. At least I got to see Greenland in August.
     
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