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General Category => PHOTOS OF GENERAL INTEREST (NOT TOOLS OR SHOP RELATED) => Topic started by: pep on August 08, 2021, 09:15:39 PM

Title: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: pep on August 08, 2021, 09:15:39 PM: C130 nick name gun ship.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: john k on August 08, 2021, 09:38:55 PM: Is that on permanent display? Lots of firepower to be just sitting. I always wondered what the mini-guns firing does to the airframe?
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: Rural53 on August 08, 2021, 10:36:46 PM: Quote from: john k on August 08, 2021, 09:38:55 PM
Is that on permanent display? Lots of firepower to be just sitting. I always wondered what the mini-guns firing does to the airframe?
Not much compared to the 40mm Bofors and the 105mm howitzer!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210809/7204049c6394bc1bec55a93e48365cc3.jpg)
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: pep on August 09, 2021, 07:05:55 AM: Quote from: Rural53 on August 08, 2021, 10:36:46 PM
Quote from: john k on August 08, 2021, 09:38:55 PM
Is that on permanent display? Lots of firepower to be just sitting. I always wondered what the mini-guns firing does to the airframe?

Yes on display, air frame is beefed up and inspected regularly . It's called a major overhaul, engines removed, plane jacked, landing gear tested, every system is checked, inspected reinstalled.

Plane is spotted, secured, spun up ........ think dyno. Checked for leaks, flight controls and so on.

In a jet, that is a hell of a ride. Testing the after burners, plane noses over. Almost to the point of bottoming out the nose gear

The chalks are massive, from the tarmac too about a foot higher then the top of the tire, main gear.

Not much compared to the 40mm Bofors and the 105mm howitzer!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210809/7204049c6394bc1bec55a93e48365cc3.jpg)

Yes, there is a port just behind the 2 cannons to the rear, but covered.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: john k on August 09, 2021, 09:39:57 AM: The 105mm gun is the same as on the M-60 tank. Above the gun tube is a hydraulic cylinder that takes up the recoil, inside the tank is still an awesome shock. Can see from the videos the gun mount is well insulated, but darn, is still bolted into aluminum.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: DeadNutz on August 09, 2021, 09:54:34 AM: At an airshow I bought a t-shirt from an AC-130 Spectre squadron that says " you can run but you'll only die tired."

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Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: pep on August 19, 2021, 06:25:17 AM: Down the road
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on August 19, 2021, 07:34:33 AM: Quote from: pep on August 19, 2021, 06:25:17 AM
Down the road

Very nice. Unfortunately there's so much damn building going on, soon your area will be another Alpharetta.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: jabberwoki on August 19, 2021, 06:25:39 PM: Yeah really nice. i`d sit down in that creek with a beer and be quite happy.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: muddy on August 19, 2021, 10:28:19 PM: Quote from: pep on August 19, 2021, 06:25:17 AM
Down the road
Beautiful!

Sent from the twisted mind of the mudman
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: mdlbldrmatt135 on August 19, 2022, 05:56:20 AM: Quote from: john k on August 09, 2021, 09:39:57 AM
The 105mm gun is the same as on the M-60 tank. Above the gun tube is a hydraulic cylinder that takes up the recoil, inside the tank is still an awesome shock. Can see from the videos the gun mount is well insulated, but darn, is still bolted into aluminum.

John, It's actually a M102 105mm towed Howitzer, not quite the gun out of the M60 series tank.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: john k on August 19, 2022, 08:01:27 AM: Ah, different gun, but the same shell? Looks the same when you see the air crew reloading. The shell is a handful, inside a cramped tank turret too. The aiming system, must be interesting, with the pinpoint accuracy the are recieving. Thanks for the update.
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: mdlbldrmatt135 on August 19, 2022, 08:11:16 AM: Shells are different too

Yeah those Gunships & Crews are something else for putting rounds on target Accurately.

Arty: straight
Tank: reduced neck
Title: Re: Getting back in, just stuff
Post by: pep on December 09, 2023, 09:43:54 AM: Cool part