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 - E54 - Flight Engineers with Tony Hall
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Bill 'K9' Kourelakos
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Episode 54
This episode features a wide-ranging discussion of the flight engineer category and its place on the C-130 Hercules. Tony Hall also covers his operational C-130 experience, along with his transition onto Caribous and then as a Loadmaster on C-130Js. The discussion ranges into:
- RAAF B-707 operations based in Kyrgyzstan (where Tony was an Operations Officer)
- Impact of the Safety system on Flight Engineer authorisations
- The latter years of C-130H operations in the RAAF
- RAAF consideration of having a FLTENG on the C=130J
- Demise of the FLTENG mustering
- Transition to Loadmaster