Read online last night that the 179th Air Lift Wing, based at KMFD, Mansfield, Ohio, will be losing their C-130Hs this year under some sort of equipment redistribution plan or some such. The C-130s will be transferred to the USAF and the 179th will receive C-21s...which is the military version of some business jet...Lear 35A or something like that. It won't be until 2013 until the 179th receives new cargo planes....the C-27J Spartan. Three years of not seeing large cargo planes flying over my house....not seeing the C-130s flying low and slow in 2, 3 and 4 ship formations over my house. Not hearing those large turbo prop engines howling over head. Having to hear the annoying whine of business jet engines....man I hate the sound of Lear jets.
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