C-130 Hercules.
About twice a month, a C-130 Herkybird flies into Manchester, NH airport to do a few touch and goes.
My brother referred to them as smash and goes.
One came by today but only did one T&G and flew west back to New York to their base.

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If it flies, I can crash it!

When my Father was an ATC in the USAF in Thailand, the base he was stationed at was home to the first operational squadron of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship. Awesome aircraft.
It was also home to the F-4 Squadron commanded by Col. Robin Olds

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !

AKA Crash and Dash.

My experience is more with B-52G/H and KC-135 variants. Here at Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station Fort Worth Carswell Field (Carswell **** It) we get F-16s. F-35s, F/A-18s, C-130s, C-20s (737s), and visiting flying machines.
Carswell AFB was a SAC base with a double wing. Died with base closures with the end of the Cold War. For the youngsters, we won.

Chas

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Charles Russell, MSgt,USAF (ret.)
NAR 9790, Lvl 1
SAM "Balls Three"

Cold War defense nuclear worker here (three decades +). You bet we won!!

Earl

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Earl L. Cagle, Jr.
NAR# 29523
TRA# 962
SAM# 73
Owner/Producer
Point 39 Productions

Rocket-Brained Since 1970

My father was a friend of a BUFF pilot back in the late 1960's.
His nickname was "Redd".
He was transferred to Manchester, then known as Grenier Field AFB.
He was a C&W musician. He played guitar and wrote some of his own music.
My father suggested I learn some of his music.
I refused because I was not interested.
My loss.

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If it flies, I can crash it!

I would NOT call that a loss in the least, but a gain.
Better off not learning that pollution of the brain.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !

I used to live in a house near the runway for Hulburt Field in Florida. When a C-130 came in to land from the right direction, its landing gear were already down as they came over my house. They were so low that I could see clearly up into the wheel wells. The landing lights would lit up my front windows like a scene from Close Encounters!

And speaking of touch and goes, I recall day when a small jet was doing T&Gs at Hulburt. Every ten minutes for what seemed like hours, it flew past my house at a low altitude.

I lived near Hurlbert Field. I could throw a rock on the field.
I lived in Mary Easter, next to Fort WAlton Beach.
Small world.
I lived off on bloody 98.
You should know what that means.

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If it flies, I can crash it!

I worked on the C130-E at Little Rock AFB during the 80's. I hardly recognize the new ones flying now.
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Was TDY at Pease AFB, a SAC base. Did tours TAC, SAC and MAC. Every AF pilot had to do a certain amount of flying time per month, with different approaches for the type A/C and landings. A touch and Go (T&G) is considered a "landing." T&G was marked on the progress strip for approach, and each wheel touch down was recorded on that strip. Each was written by hand back then.

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Enjoy life, it has an expiration date.