I have been on vacation,, traveling to the Carolinas. I did see a c130 in a hobby shop in Spartinburg and was told it only flew twice and crashed both times, so they just hang it.

Now for update on my herk,, I have adjusted the stab to lower the leading edge. I still have about 1/8" more to lower the leading edge. I have 19 flights on it. I have learned that on take off roll,, do not pull up elevator until the plane has accelerated close to flying speed. I held full up for the entire takeoff roll and the bird lifted with a gust of wind (15mph) and the #1 engine dropped about 1000 rpm.. It almost stalled and the left wing missed the ground by inches,, then of course the right wing dropped and it missed by inches. I pulled power back slightly to let the #1 richen up a bit and pull,, I also pushed down elevator, (gutsy move at 10') and flew a shallower than normal flight path until climb out was at safe altitude. I landed and richened #1 and all was well after this flight. I have done (at altitude) stalls. It stalls very gently by slowly dropping the nose and slightly off to the left.

Landing practice was found to have the best (smoothest) landings by flying 50% flaps and power off for final approach, then in the round out I ADD 2 clicks of power for about 1 second, then ease off the power and the plane flies to the wheels. You do not want to stall drop this bird in.

Glad to be back,, vettdvr.. PS photo is what I thought was my work car,, but my wife labeled the photo as.: "Mine"