[Info-vax] OT: Aircraft pitot tubes and clustering.

[Peter Weaver]

>...
>    C130 are pretty damn good, and so are most Air Force pilots,
>    linesmen, and mechanics, but there are some situations where I 
>    just don't want to wait for those four turboprops to spool up.
>...

Way off topic, but;

I've ridden in the back of a lot of C130's and seen a lot on the ground. At
various airshows I heard people comment about how big the C130 is and I
always thought "Wait until you see a Galaxy or a Starlifter." Then one day a
few years ago I was flying in a Cherokee on the downwind leg at my local
airport and I heard a C130 call that they were 8 miles out. When I was on
very short final I looked up and saw it at mid-downwind. I never saw
anything look so big and I never felt so small. All I could think of was
getting down and off the runway before I became a smudge on one of its
wheels.


Peter Weaver
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