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A rare treat

Postby gtirob01 » Wed May 04, 2011 12:02 pm

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
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Cockpit. A bit bright due to sunlight coming through the sunshade
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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
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Gotta have some guns in there!
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And a little bonus
https://www.simviation.com/phpupload/upl ... 583324.jpg

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

Postby Flying Trucker » Wed May 04, 2011 1:13 pm

Well done...thanks for taking us along... ;)
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Re: A rare treat

Postby Skunkworks » Wed May 04, 2011 7:28 pm

Very nice pictures! Those 105 howies look like they can do a little damage!  :)
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Re: A rare treat

Postby CHUCK79 » Wed May 04, 2011 10:09 pm

Very cool 8-) 8-)
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Re: A rare treat

Postby patchz » Wed May 04, 2011 10:40 pm

Very nice Rob. :)
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