Quote Originally Posted by Alpha2 View Post
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.