Gary,
I just sent you a BIG e-mail with lots of pics I took today at the hangar. Let me know if you got it since I’ve been having problems with my e-mail lately. Also let me know if this is what you needed.
it’s cold up here right now!
Getting ready for a drop.
somewhere over Af???
salbando,
Just get 'em tonight (23 Jan 2004). Thanks a bunch!! Great photos. How come there are no skis on those Herk’s in the above pictures? 8-)) Talk atcha later!!
I could be wrong, but I think all the “ski birds” are in the NY ANG for suport of the polar research in the ant-arctic.
AKlabunde is right, with the exception of the Navy support C-130’s for antarctica. Our herks really don’t need them up here. But in the past, my unit’s sister squadron actually flew C-130 ski birds in Alaska, and prior to that they flew C-123J’s on skis.
AKlabunde, so I take it you’re up here in Alaska as well???
Salbando,
No I am not up in the frozen north, I am in Delaware. But looking out my window I might have a hard time telling the difference right now.
Anyone working on the C-130H model remember they came in several variations. The C-130H, H2, H2.5 and H3. And the H3 have an all (or almost all) glass cockpit similar to the J’s. Depending on their age some of the H2s came with differing features.