CalFire C-130 Airtanker Program Update April 25 2023
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That C130 you toured has led a very versatile life. It was USCG 1721 for a long time, and wore the rotodome while it was in Clearwater, but it also did time with the Marines, Air Force and Navy before returning to USCG service in Clearwater. When we got it back it had that new car smell compared to our 30,000 hour airframes, but it wore a ratty partially brush painted 2 tone Navy paint scheme. Fantastic bird.
FWIW: I was at Air Station Miami from 1988 to 1995. One year while I was there the radome Herk flew in.
I was looking forward to going aboard and seeing it from the inside. UNFORTUNATELY I had a flight that day -- HU-25 Falcon -- and by the time we got back to Opa Locka the C-130 had left.
My Dad had 20,000 hours in the C-130 over 40 years in MATS and private companies. One of the worlds greatest airplanes.
Low level. Mountainous terrain. Smoke obscured visual. Swirling high winds and wind sheer. Extremely dangerous work. The pilots that fly those C-130's do the impossible first and the tough stuff later. God bless those men and women. Mahalo Juan!
I can tell you after working with ALL the big birds the C-130 is definitely top shelf. Possibly the ONLY aircraft more badass than the BUFF, which is saying something. There’s just something about that big slab wing, the deep drone of four turboprops, and the sheer presence of a Hercules that commands the attention of all the sense. The sooner they join the fleet the better. To turn a phrase: Summer, is coming.
Winter came and made everything green. Summer is coming, to turn everything brown and flammable.
@@jonokiller such is the cycle. Especially in California. Flood, grow, burn. Repeat.
My late uncle was a Load Master on 130s during the Vietnam War. He'd be proud to see the current use.
So was I. VMGR 152. DaNang/Futema/Nam Phong. We flew the Foxtrot refueler model. Call sign "BASKETBALL"
I was flying back from Cleveland on Tuesday, through Denver. When I flew from Denver to Cleveland, I sat next to a friend of yours. C. Brown. Can't remember his first name. The fact that I mentioned Flight Aware, started the conversation. Then I asked him if he followed the blancolirio channel! 😂 We had a great conversation the whole way home! 😊
As someone who works for CALFIRE i hope they get these up and running sooner than later. With lots of rain comes heavy fuel loads and wind. Two things we really dont want mixing with fire.
Only an A&P would be able to manage a smile sticking their head out of a wing.
Amazed and very happy to hear that S2s will be flying for years to come.
Fuselage.
@@paulsilva3346 That is the cockpit escape hatch. The others are just aft of the wing center of the fuselage and the other is just before the tail section left of center.
@@paulsilva3346 Lmao!!! F#CKIN' YEZ... 😮😅
Hi Having been a C-130 Crew Chief USAF I believe the C-130 is the best A/C Having spent many hours over South East Asia I learned to love thee aircraft 1966-70 Tks Ron
Your intro music is awesome hearing it with my Apple Air Pods. The guitar is sensational. Normally I use an iPad but I’ve been missing so much sound, I use these Air Pods all the time now.
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Cal Fire's air program is the best in the business. The largest in the world too.
Love the C-130. My dad was an Air Force captain on the C-130H in the 80s, and I got quite a few memorable flights on the jump seat as a kid. Sometimes I was allowed to sit on his lap and "control" the aircraft. One thing I remember very well is the amazing view you get. It's like a greenhouse cockpit. Amazing aircraft.
Please be sure to do a thorough wing spare inspection on these birds. The most horrific footage I’ve ever watched was that of an A model C-130 fire bomber who’s wings folded up over a fire.
Cool capabilities. C-130's are a very versatile platform.
Yes, with a history of spar failures.
Yay! This is encouraging to see this program ramping up. The sooner those Hercules planes are ready to go, the better. May their crews see safe service.
I grew up just North of McClellan AFB near Watt Ave and Elverta Rd. I remember watching all of the Air Force planes landing and loved going to the base open house events
Seven C-130s is awesome! Adds a real increase in the capability of Cal Fire.
If it cost $1.2 million for the state of California to approve plans for building one bathroom for the homeless, I can't even imagine how much this would cost.
If I remember correctly, back in the early 2000s. California received two Blackhawk helicopters for cal fire. $50 million to convert them with tanks. Bambi bucket system would had cost around $200,000.
So yes, lots of money.
Wow! Big Momma to the rescue! I love the flying guppy. God bless the men and women of Calfire!
It was never referred to as the flying guppy, unless that is your pet name for it.
@@markpirisky2281 Yep, that is a term of endearment for a beautiful and remarkable aircraft. Looking forward to seeing them in action in Cali fighting fire. I pray for the men and women of Calfire for their safety.
C-130 Ex Norwegian Airforce just left the Boneyard in Tucson just the other day to start its heavy maintence for it to join the fleet!
Those are being converted by a Coulson aviation with less red tape.
My late brother had friend in the business of selling parts for C-130’s. He started as a navy aviation storekeeper. Got out with the work experience of getting, storing, and providing aircraft parts. Had a life long business specializing in just C-130 parts
I love getting an inside progress report. Those planes are going to help tremendously. Love the C130.
You're cracking me up Juan! Picture of you poking your head up out of the fuselage, that little kid in you shows through! LOL
Another outstanding video! Thanks!!
Flew on a C-130 in Vietnam: first time, on or about June 21, 1970 on a flight from Da Nang to Tan Son Nhut!
Great video Juan! 30 years ago I was a young punk and a C-141 aircraft commander snob. I thought C-130, phew- my fuel load is heavier than a loaded C-130. Now, aside form a few static displays all of my beloved C-141s are beer cans. The 141 was a great jet but the 130 is a historically utilitarian airframe. He who laughs last...
All I have to say is that I would have rather flied with you on a C-141 than a C-130 air tanker.
Yep, all I was was was US Army Transportation Corps, Ordinance Corps and Quartermaster Corps.
Yep, 497th Transportation Company at Fort Lewis back in your days.
I don't think I ever flew with you, but I was the soldier that knew how to use the coffee maker.
The C-130 is a great plane. However, they can be a cold ride. We were part of a NATO exercise and had to fly the whole length of Norway in a CG C-130 with no heat!
This is a cool video! Those C-130's are massive!
Wowie wow wow C-130, awesome report! Happy happy happy😊
Started out flying A models in the AFRES out of Niagara Falls, NY in 1973, later transferred to active duty USCG. First Duty Station was McClellan AFB in 1978. They had just opened the station there after moving from SFO. Have flown A, B, E, H, & HC models in the CG. Duty in Kodiak was the most “interesting”. Love the Herc. Nice reporting, Juan! Thanks for the memories😊.
Yep. That C-130, big big brother of the Cessna 150, popular for good reason. Platform for everything from Puff The Magic Dragon to USCG long range SAR and Hurricane hunting. Any outfit w C-130 capability is...Semper Paratus.
Thx Juan for an informative and well produced video of Cal Fire progress and capabilities
Nothing warms my heart more than hearing about bureaucratic red tape and unnecessary rules & regulations...
For a guy who got his Navy ME training in a TS2 (in 1969) it was nice to see the in flight video from the S2. Brought back memories.
I have seen these flying low altitude near Sacramento during the summer.
I thought with the wing issues C 130's would be done. They must have got some variance to allow them again. As a wildland firefighter it was always great to see the calvery of c130's arrive on scene!
If you're talking about the 2002 loss, that was an ancient aircraft, It was a 1956 A model with 21,000 plus hours on the air frame and no X-ray inspection of the wing boxes which would have found the cracks that led to the loss of the aircraft.
C130s are still in production!
That was an ancient A model with the ‘glass wing’….
The longevity of the Herc still amazes me. The E model is what I cut my teeth on fresh out of tech school for airframe repair. First assignment was McChord AFB. Maintained 141’s there too. ‘82-86. Love your channel!
Thanks…..if i was not so damn old i would have loved to have been involved in the whole cal fire air operations, and i would do it for free………TIME IS THE ULTIMATE THIEF…….
Really interesting update Juan, thanks for posting. Although I'm 5.5k miles away in the UK, I find these reports fascinating. You know the summer is coming, and with it the fire season, here's hoping it's not as bad as the last few years. Love the shot of you appearing through the hatchway!
Rule Britannia! Greetings from a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer in the Pacific Northwest.
C130 is an amazing and now historical airplane. It may outlive us all.
saw it fly over corning a couple of days ago. My USRES C-130 unit in Colorado Spring had a firefighting mission in the 90's.
BEAUTIFUL AIRPLANE !!!!!!!
The aircraft that is in storage at Davis-Monthan, and it surprises me that it has not been used in firefighting is the S-3 Viking.
Never been so early to a video be the inestimable Juan Browne. Love the content, Juan. Always look forward to that TH-cam notification stating you have a new upload.
Great update. See the smaller ones flying over the house in Cedar Ridge. Let's hope with all the snow on the ground that we stay out of wildfire season for awhile.
I´d like to see a 130 with a fire hose on to one side, if its possible to turn over a fire! "Fire defend gun ship 130"
Talk about relevant and timely news update. My god, MSM is completely irredeemable at this point, irrelevant of their deceptive tactics feigning credibility. Great upload Brownie.
Great video and information - I can't WAIT for the Herc to be flying for CalFire on INITIAL . I'm a lifetime Californian, Naval Aircrew Vet, and 20 year resident of Calaveras County (shout to Airbase Columbia)... I am also a narrow survivor of the 2015 Butte Fire, and have been waiting for the C-130 since that incident.
My task has been surveys at air attack bases so the engineers can design modifications for the C130s.
I remember seeing the one sitting on the tarmac at Visalia municipal airport years ago and wondering why they didn’t converter for firefighting use. great platform.
There were two there sometimes. Don’t know if they ever fought a fire.
Possibly an A model. Bad news. Vietnam era killers.
The 130's at Visalia belong to an outfit called TBM, Inc.: TBM operated out of Sequoia Field since the 1950's, but were kicked out by Tulare County in about 2004, because the county was charging them almost nothing in rent!
They're a contractor to Cal Fire, but their 130's were grounded from fire fighting, after the one that crashed in...the Lassen fire (? - the one that the wings came off of).
They weren't the operators of that aircraft, but I don't believe they've fought a fire since.
Not sure where they're based now, but I did see one of their 130's (the camo, ex ANG bird) at Mojave, not long after the move.
They have at least 5 or 6 130's, and several S-2's.
Boy howdy! That's a great step. I'm in Oregon and hope we don't need them, but I know we share. Hell yeah!
Hi Juan, great to see an update on CalFire's aerial fighting machines, especially with the venerable C-130 being introduced!
It's lovely to see some snippets of hangar footage from McClellan! Even though I live over 6000nm away in the southwest Pacific, I too am getting familiar with the state wide Airtac bases and that at the McClellan AFB, as my company is adding value to improving the communications systems across CalFire's radio communications network to keep the hangar ground crews in contact with the operations centre! Nice to see live views better than those on Google Earth, which are pretty good compared to just paper maps!😀
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
These gems from Juan are what make this channel stand out.
Thanks, Juan. The airport basing for the Calfire C-130s sounds great.
I was a USAF crew chief in Vietnam and i know what these planes are capable of 🙂
My father in law flew 130s for the Air Force and later was a T-38 instructor. He talks way more about the 130 than he does about the T-38.
What a relief it is to see and hear competent people in action. Thank you!!!
Hoping they are in the air for fire season!
Awesome update!! Please keep these cal fire aviation updates coming... just heard recently cal fire is training with night vision on the fire hawks... love to see you doing a similar update with those guys... thanks for your great channel keep up the great work!!
How cool is that. Thanks so much for sharing. I must of been a pilot in a past life because I love these air tack aircraft. Thanks❤ again ❤❤
That classic and wonderful airplane is built about four miles away from where this is being written.
Flying a large aircraft over a fire at low altitude and speed must be challenging.
Two North American air tankers have crashed here in Australia fairly recently with the loss of the crew on one of them .
You should be able to take any C130 and within an hour it is set for Arial Fire Fighting System ( AFFS )`THATS THE WAY THEY WERE DESINGED BY AERO UNION in Chico
Thanks for the update Juan. That will be a big help to rhe state when they are ready.
I've got around 2700 hours in C-130E's and a "Super-E" that had H model engines. Great airplane. Before the transition to C-17's the local Air Guard unit here in CLT had C-130H's and a few of them were configured for the portable MAFFS unit that could carry 3,000 gallons of fire retardant. I would have loved that mission. It would have been more exciting than doing the 300 feet AGL tactical training missions we did out of Pope AFB back in the day.
Just curious. Have you flown the IR 721 route? I live between Foxtrot and Gulf. Love seeing you folks do terrain following.
@@LowLevelNC I did terrain following but all this was back in the 1980's LOL. I did some out of Little Rock AFB and a lot more out of Pope AFB (Fort Bragg). The low level routes were the most fun of all the things we did with C-130's.
Thank you Juan. this aircraft is going to be a huge asset in the mission. I was wondering what they were going to do when the S-2''s timed out, sounds like they have a plan in place...thankful for that.
Change is hard. Don't ask me how I know...
Looks like Juan is working on McClellan hasn't been an AFB for many, many years. (BRAC and HazMat victim).
It's now McClellan Airport (aka: McClellan Field) and home to many uses including a principal base for US Forest Service and CalFire Air Tanker (AT) ops including USFS Very Large Air Tankers (VLAT)s.
In my humble opinion, the C130 series has been and will continue to be the most versatile air frame ever built. Thanks for keeping us safe #calfire and thank you Juan for keeping us updated!
Gotta love the C130! They used to skim the treetops over my house every now and then, but undoubtedly somebody complained (MA - par for the course here), so I don’t get to see them anymore.😢 Thanks for the tour, Juan & Brian! 👍😎👍
The center stack was getting really hard to get replacements for. There was like only one old man doing the torque gauges. EIDS is really nice. USCG got it first, the the USMC KC-130Ts and USN C-130Ts.
That was a awesome video keep then coming Juan
Cool looking aircraft thank you Juan
Great resource,hopefully they will be used on the fire edge and not miles ahead to pretreat!!
Excellent. Thank you both!
Sweet, looking forward to seeing one in Paso!
Thanks Juan. Good talk!
Thanks for the update Juan
Enjoy your videos!
The C-130’s will be a great addition to the fleet of Cal-Fire. A lot more flexible than some of the jets they have.
Great update!
Thank you, sir, for the update !
Great education on fire fighting aircraft, thanks
Way Cool Sir...have the best weekend
Thank you. Keep working. Good luck! 👍
Yessiree, Brian is a big man…, too funny…
Thank you for this report 👏🏼
Thanks for explaining the process of conversion and certification.
I always learn something new from your videos. Thank you.
The World's training bace for C-130's is Little Rock Air Force Base. They are almost constantly in the air around here. Their sound is unmistakable. It sounds like Freedom!
Arkansas just got the F-35 training mission along with F-16's for our allies. Thats an even better sound!
Big rig. Glad you’re on it 💪👍🏻
Thank you for such fine content.
AWESOME !!! THANKS FOR THE UPDATE JUAN .😍😍😍😍😍 🙏
FRICKING AWESOME. BRIAN MUST BE 6-10 OR SO ................. THAT EIDS GLASS LOOKS GREAT. Good Job Juan.
One impressive aircraft and one impressive program! I want one... lol. Cheers from Texas.
Nice, Hopefully it is not a bad fire season in cali.
Great update.
👍👍👍👊😎
I have property near the Jacksonville Arkansas Airforce Base that is the flight path of the C 130 training area so we see them regularly and use to watch them do touch and goes at the now Clinton International in Little Rock (before 9-11 ruined access). They are true work horses. It was also interesting to see a brief appearance of Mr Brown a video of Lake Oroville from the Space Wind channel.
Juan, Thank you for this special report. It was very interesting to hear all the details. As always another AWESOME video.
Very nice addition to the fire fighting assets.