Skyviper

Saw this video .. though it makes feel old it makes me feel proud that I'm a pioneer gamer. Am I the only one? This video brings back good memories ... and then a crap load of bad ones. ... It also makes me want to go hunt down the rom for this.

Just letting you know that Seven of 9 will be flying with me.

I remember talking with them/ him several years ago. I was genuially interested in being an investor for the company. Seriously things were looking good finacially for me then (unlike they are now) and I was going to invest in TK. He was kind enough to tell me that I wouldn't be making any money. He also went to outline a plan they had for several cellphone apps because the PC market was costing them too much money. Something about $10,000 to make one plane. So they were focusing on the app and pay to play market. I'm not saying they aren't going to stop doing PC stuff ... which would be stupid... but I'm just saying I wouldn't hold my breath. ... okay who am I kidding I would hold my breath because I really really do want to this happen on the PC. I've always wanted a star wars mod .. no the George Lucas one the other one where the space shuttle fire bunker busting missiles and stuff. ... although the other one would be awesome too. Speaking off awesome that is an awesome space ship good job!

Heck yeah! ... Get a destroyer out there next.

I'm not going to lie. That thought did cross my mind too.

Ah. Here I was thinking DDOS season was over with.

Now I'm wondering about things on your end ... j/k. I didn't get a report about what happened just that for some reason I couldn't connect to this slice of heaven... it was a very disturbing feeling. However I did picture Eric freaking out and trying to solve the problem ... and then when the usual didn't work he pulled a rambo. Can you imagine Eric pulling a rambo? I'm assuming there is this guy with a red hand band, running around with a huge gun demanding that the guardians of the internet release CombatACE from the pit of digital doom. Seriously I am wondering if something happened with the company managing the server as they just moved and things probably got messed up.

Member being in school and a nice big bolt struck just outside the door. Sounded like a bomb went off. Good thing the hall was crowded to so I could blame that hanging fart on somone else.

Looking good. Any plans for the AC/130?

Yeah they did.

Good find. Interesting story too.

This is still hot off the press so the story may change as the day goes on.

No issue at all I had no idea who she was until this week. Thought I'd share the photos. I'm curious to know what her girlfriend looks like though. For instance Robin Meade she mentioned her husband and I'm thinking dude is like Stone Cold Steve Austin ...nope... he looks like your average joe that just got lucky as hell. (she did a photo shoot with him and they talked about one day on her report)

ROFL

Miss Spain Wow.

You do outstanding work to keep this place up and running.

Happy Birthday Herky Bird! by 33Lima 'They also serve who only stand and wait'... Or carry cargo, from tanks to emergency relief. Or fight fires from the skies. Or fly around in circles, day or night, drenching the Bad Guys in torrents of tracers. Or any of a number of other useful things. Especially if they have been doing all of these things, and more besides, for, like, sixty years. The famous Lockeed Martin C-130 Hercules certainly qualifies for that T-shirt. An extra-extra-extra large one, to be sure. Not just to accommodate the elegant but somewhat portly lines of 'Fat Albert', as the US Navy's 'Blue Angels' display team somewhat disrespectfully called their C-130 support plane. A very large T-shirt is definitely needed to list all the many, many roles in which the C-130 has served with distinction, over the sixty years since it first flew, way back on August 23rd, 1954. It's an achievement of which any T-shirt-wearing sixty-year-old can feel justly proud, especially in the fast-moving aviation industry. It's the mark of a true aviation classic and a record few others can rival, let alone surpass. Yet the Hercules might never have made to the drawing board, let alone the flight line. 'Kelly' Johnston, leading Lokckeed engineer on projects like the P-38, P-80 and F-104 (and later, via the famous 'Skunk Works' on the same company's U-2 and sR-71 spyplanes) was reportedly less than impressed with the initial design proposal: 'Sign that letter and you will destroy the Lockheed Company'. Fortunately for Lockheed, vice president and chief engineer Hall Hibbard seems to have talked Johnston around, for they both signed it off...and the rest, like they say, is history. CombatACE Members Salute the C-130 CombatACE Flight Line: C-130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-F2eNtxbqg Chatting About the Herc with Dels #Herc60

The C-130: Celebrating 60 Years of Active Service 60 years ago, on the 23rd of August in 1954, a legend was born when the second experimental C-130 (designated then as YC-130) took to the skies over the Lockheed plant in Burbank California and made a 61 minute flight to Edwards Air Force Base. Stanley Beltz and Roy Wimmer piloted the aircraft while Jack Real and Dick Stanton took on their roles as flight engineers. Watching from the cockpit of a P-2 Neptune was the legendary designer Kelly Johnson- the man having originally stated developing the C-130 would kill the Lockheed Company! Though the C-130 took flight in 1954 its conception occurred three years earlier after the United States Air Force realized that World War 2 era transports that were modified civilian airliners could not handle the rigors of modern warfare. Thus a new plane needed to be designed from scratch as a combat transport that could carry 92 passengers or 72 soldiers or 64 paratroopers. In addition to having a 41 foot long and ten foot high cargo compartment, the aircraft would need a loading ramp; something that was first pioneered on the German Junkers JU 252. Only a handful of companies accepted the challenge to design such a plane and Lockheed was awarded the contract. The C-130 became a huge success for the United States military and various militaries around the world. It was just the plane the United States Air Force was looking for and it can land on short, unprepared runways which allows it operate in most places around the world making it a true workhorse that can execute a list of various roles. For instance, in addition to being a transport aircraft, the C-130 can be easily modified to serve as a tanker and carry out air to air refueling operations. It can also be equipped to carry out scientific research, perform search and rescue operations, maritime patrol, and it can equipped to execute one of its more popular roles as an AC-130 Spectre gunship. When armed with a 25 mm GAU 12/U Equalizer Gatling Cannon, a 40mm Bofors Cannon, and 105 mm Howitzer the humble C-130 becomes the harbinger of death. Faster than helicopter and slower than a fighter the AC-130 can provide close air support for ground units, provide convoy protection, or conduct operations on high value targets. This deadly aircraft has seen action in just about every major conflict the United States has been involved in sense Vietnam. Here’s a little known fact about the C-130. For the last 51 years it holds the record as being the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. A KC-130 piloted by Lt. James H. Flatley lll made 21 unassisted, full stop landings and 21 takeoffs from the aircraft carrier Forrestal. That means that for twenty one times the C-130 landed on aircraft without using an arrestor hook to stop it; something that all aircraft expected to operate from carriers use. It also means that for 21 times the aircraft took off from the carrier without using the catapult system. Though the test were successful the idea in and of itself was too risky for everyday operations. The C-130 works hard but it also plays hard too as it takes on another more entertaining role for the United States Naval Flight demonstration team the Blue Angles. Before the brilliantly painted F-18s take to the skies and awe spectators, a specially modified C-130, called Fat Albert, gets the show started. Until 2009 it performed a high speed takeoff using JATO Rockets but had had to stop due to dwindling supplies. After the takeoff Fat Albert performs various high speed passes and displays a combat landing. Over the years, potential replacements for the C-130 have come and mostly gone. It seems that the only aircraft which can truly replace the Hercules is another, better Hercules. Cue the C-130J 'Super Hercules', first flown in 1996, and which garnered a new round of orders, with hundreds more deliveries to satisfied Hercules customers, all around the globe. For 60 years the C-130 has been performing its primary role for the military, working for civilians by fighting fires or conducting research, entertaining crowds or tackling any challenge thrown its way. Without a doubt this wonderful plane is truly one of a kind and today we celebrate its well-earned place in aviation’s Hall of Fame. #Herc60

Wow. ... just ... wow. Mile high club with class huh.

Yep Lockheed is going to hook us up with the video of this....

Doing my online rounds this evening and found this .... this little punk is the reason we have pop ups.... couldn't help but notice his last name.

Hello CombatACE I'm working on a video that wil salute the C-130's 60th anniversary and I'm wondering if any of you out there would like to write a brief statement about something you like about the C-130 or if you want to say something positive about it. Thank you for your time.

Sounds like a nice show to watch... See and we already have the conflict going ... Now we just need a crew to film a computer screen and unneccesarily hype up some posts...