C-130 fuselage

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My one experience with one of those pigs was a loooong recon flight over the Bering Sea, they were dropping me and another guy off at Dutch Harbor on the way back, it is a bad sign when you are boarding an aircraft and the flightcrew gives you earplugs and parkas. Six months after 10hrs in a web seat that same aircraft had a catastrophic engine failure and when the starboard inboard prop came apart it tore a 8' hole in the fuselage where we had been sitting, the plane flew back to Kodiak and made a perfect landing.
 

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My one experience with one of those pigs was a loooong recon flight over the Bering Sea, they were dropping me and another guy off at Dutch Harbor on the way back, it is a bad sign when you are boarding an aircraft and the flightcrew gives you earplugs and parkas. Six months after 10hrs in a web seat that same aircraft had a catastrophic engine failure and when the starboard inboard prop came apart it tore a 8' hole in the fuselage where we had been sitting, the plane flew back to Kodiak and made a perfect landing.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. I've made many structural parts for the C130. They are built like tanks. And they are built by Lockheed. They sure know how to build a good airplane.
 

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Sub-contrtr told me these c130s had just come from active-duty, stipped in AZ and the first trainer is headed to a field in FL, second one to CA.


Those seats look terrible for a lengthy flight.

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How much can they stick into one of these?
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