Uncle Sam had a yard sale at one of his many aircraft bone yards. Due to the shape of the economy, prices were slashed sharply and I was able to come home with a few nice planes to rebuild and use for my fledgling air cargo company....US Cargo (boring name but it fit on the side of the plane easily).
At first I had my eyes on a decent C-130E, but the bottom of the horizontal stabilizers and elevators were not mapped to the texture sheet (the freeware Alphasim C-130s are the ones I am working with). So, I looked around and found a ex-USCG HC-130H that was in a bit worse shape than the C-130E due to exposure to the salt spray during search and rescue missions, but the price was right and the plane was fully mapped (not sure what happened that the C-130E did not get fully mapped). The fuselage has been restored and painted, the wings and tail are done. Need to do some repairts to the engine nacelles (and rebuild those tired old turbo props) and the central wing structure. I hope that the crew can have this bird ready by Thursday as US Cargo has it's first paid haul....carrying 30,000 pounds of building supplies from KSEA (Seattle-Tacoma International) to Anchorage, Alaska...my first multi-hour flight...5.5 hours!).
OBIO
At first I had my eyes on a decent C-130E, but the bottom of the horizontal stabilizers and elevators were not mapped to the texture sheet (the freeware Alphasim C-130s are the ones I am working with). So, I looked around and found a ex-USCG HC-130H that was in a bit worse shape than the C-130E due to exposure to the salt spray during search and rescue missions, but the price was right and the plane was fully mapped (not sure what happened that the C-130E did not get fully mapped). The fuselage has been restored and painted, the wings and tail are done. Need to do some repairts to the engine nacelles (and rebuild those tired old turbo props) and the central wing structure. I hope that the crew can have this bird ready by Thursday as US Cargo has it's first paid haul....carrying 30,000 pounds of building supplies from KSEA (Seattle-Tacoma International) to Anchorage, Alaska...my first multi-hour flight...5.5 hours!).
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