72Rdrunner's channel

Brings back a lot of memories. I flew into and out of Tan Son Nhut many times in 1969-1970. Flew C7 Caribous out of Vung Tau. We'd fly up there or Bien Hoa each morning and shuttle in and out all day, then go back to Vung Tau at night. The "Charlie Row" on the sign is the main cargo loading ...

@justforever96 The old "strato bladder" was a brutally simple airplane and I really enjoyed flying it. It was so simple that once you got airborne, you could fly your EWO mission (offload fuel to SAC bombers) with nothing but a battery for electrical power. The flight controls were all manual (...

@lexxtex Focus, focus, focus...I asked when, (as in a simple date, & time) where (as is specific location....not merely "over Canada), and who (as in a name of the person holding the camera). Got it? W, W, W ? See my other comment about those "nozzles"!

Uh, I flew KC10s from 1981 to 1994. The airplane in this video is a "white top" which was the original paint job for the KC10s. They were all pained to "camouflage" (dirty brown we called it) in the late 80s, yet his video claims to be from 2010. Hmmm, did they go back a "repaint" on to the wh...

@JohnnyRock2000 Uh, you flew them, right?

@F3rgo666 These appear to be late models with the TCP (two component pod) which is the center line fuel tank/weapons pod. The idea was that after the fuel was consumed to drop the "outer" fuel pod, which reduced drag for the run into the target. The original "pod" was a single fuel/weapon pod, ...

@dabrilloman Ah yes the good 'ol days of SAC. "Peace was our Profession, War was just a HOBBY!"