Airplane Pics

[Hoser]

There is only a few things better than going to an Airshow. One of them is being the airshow.

Us going through a canyon near the 2002 Hayman burn area. Big plane at 230-250 mph, big rocks, big pucker factor.

[eerw]

damn dude..

next you guys are up there..let me know..would love to shoot some photos..

[nogaroheli]

Very cool! We dirtbike back in there and are always seeing low level 130's having fun, maybe one of them was you.
Flying noe is one my favorite things to do! Thanks for the pics, it made this desk a bit more exciting!

[hip55]

I saw 3 C-130s drop into South Park about 3 months ago - it was a very clear day & it was cool to see them doing their low level from the top of Kenosha Pass -

[Hoosier]

Awesome pictures, going to send them to my aunt who was an air-medevac nurse on the Hurc.

Is that plane with the #2 on it the only one with those markings? If so, I've seen it low and slow over Pueblo West before.

H.

[275RLTW]

Why the orange #2 on the last pict?

[rondog]

Great photos! Were those taken from another plane, or from on the ground somewhere?

And for all you pilots, I've always wondered.....do large planes like that lose lift and altitude in steep banks like that? There's a video of a B-52 crashing while in a really steep banking turn, and it looks like it just fell outta the sky. Seems like the lift under the wings holds 'em up, and when the wings are turned sideways the lift would either go away or change direction, or something. I don't understand what holds 'em up.

[Hoser]

Is that plane with the #2 on it the only one with those markings? If so, I've seen it low and slow over Pueblo West before.

We have four planes set up for firefighting as slurry bombers. The Forest Service gave us tanker numbers 2 and 5. So you will see 2 and 5 flying around quite a bit. After November we take the numbers off until April when the fire season starts up again. They are just giant stickers.

[Alpha2]

Hey, Hoser, regarding those pics of your Hurks, (which we called Balloons or Wind-Wagons in the Coast Guard and my brother in the Marines called herky-pigs) remind me that not long after I took the pics previously posted in this thread, our replacement Hurks had tanks between 1&2 and 3&4 like yours, I think they were "F" models. Been a REALLY long time I could be wrong. Either that or we had E or F's, and got "H" models, heck, it was the mid '70's! They didn't even whiz-quiz back then, I'm lucky I remember it was the Coast Guard.

Imagine what those aux tanks did for "time on station" on our SAR missions over the Pacific.

[Hoser]

Hey, Hoser, regarding those pics of your Hurks, (which we called Balloons or Wind-Wagons in the Coast Guard and my brother in the Marines called herky-pigs) remind me that not long after I took the pics previously posted in this thread, our replacement Hurks had tanks between 1&2 and 3&4 like yours, I think they were "F" models. Been a REALLY long time I could be wrong. Either that or we had E or F's, and got "H" models, heck, it was the mid '70's! They didn't even whiz-quiz back then, I'm lucky I remember it was the Coast Guard.

Imagine what those aux tanks did for "time on station" on our SAR missions over the Pacific.

Most of the Coastie Hurks were E and H models. I know some of them had aux tanks in the fuselage that held even more gas.

After 10-12 hours at a sitting in them I am glad we are out of gas and have to stop. The noise and beating of the props just kills you.

Hard to believe they have been making them since 1956. And they are still rolling off the lines in Marietta Georgia.