Workhorse - RAAF C-130s
"Workhorse" is a podcast about Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft from their earliest history through to modern times. The series is based on the soon to be released book “Air Mobility Workhorse”, which will be available from Big Sky Publishing.
Topics include:
- Operations from around the globe, including all four corners of the planet, from 1959 to now
- Aircraft technical discussions
- Training
- Roles (Search and Rescue, Air Logistics, Airborne Operations, Special Operations, Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief, Surveillance, Non-combatant Evacuation, Aeromedical Evacuation and Firefighting)
- Maintenance and modifications
- Logistics
- And, of course, the people that made it all possible.
Workhorse - RAAF C-130s
Workhorse - E44 - Afghanistan Jan 2002 with Rob Sokol
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Bill 'K9' Kourelakos
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Episode 44
In early January 2002, Rob 'Soky' Sokel captained the first RAAF C-130 mission to Afghanistan - under Operation Catalyst. In this episode you can hear Soky describing this epic mission with all its challenges:
- Scrounging for equipment
- Being hit by lightning
- Unable to pay contracted support agencies (loading and fuel)
- Making a wrong turn and being confronted by armed guards
- Running late for their slot time into the area of operations
- A leaking fuel tank
- A bombed out runway
- Failing communications equipment
- An APU fire indication in Kandahar
- Being shot at
- Diverting for fuel
- Etc.
What an amazing story!