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Ferry - a Thursday Prompt - aviation
Happy 4th of July!
This week - true stories of aviation you never wanted to know.
This is a subject you could spend hours talking about, complete with laughter, winks, and hoo haws... but if you worked in aviation, you know for a fact the stories are true. So much has happened over my 40 some years. Most of the memories I can relate might sound like complete fiction, but I will remind you that fiction cannot compete with the strangeness of actual fact.
Enjoy,
V.
This week - true stories of aviation you never wanted to know.
This is a subject you could spend hours talking about, complete with laughter, winks, and hoo haws... but if you worked in aviation, you know for a fact the stories are true. So much has happened over my 40 some years. Most of the memories I can relate might sound like complete fiction, but I will remind you that fiction cannot compete with the strangeness of actual fact.
Enjoy,
V.
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I wouldn't believe them myself. Though I am familiar with the Grand Canyon Hollywood plane story. Lots of folk talk about all the Hollywood shoots in the area for all the western and other films. To bad the Page airport was not constructed until 1988, would have saved you folks a lot of trouble. Thanks for sharing the old tales V. These are the ones worth listening too.
I feel much safer flying now, thanks!
Lol
Talked to a guy flying on russian airlines, a piston engines tu something orother just after takeoff #2 burst into flames, in a panic he informed the pilot and he said "dont worry, it goes out at [8,000 feet] and just kept going. Sure enough the fire went out and they continued as normal.
Lol
Talked to a guy flying on russian airlines, a piston engines tu something orother just after takeoff #2 burst into flames, in a panic he informed the pilot and he said "dont worry, it goes out at [8,000 feet] and just kept going. Sure enough the fire went out and they continued as normal.
This is quite a good read, thanks for sharing.
Stuff about the old days like this really fascinates me, and I mean not just your era but also decades prior. I really want gain some greater insight into all the little details and tidbits of how things were, as much as I can. It's the sort of thing that would really help in adding some realism and character to aviation fiction writing.
I like the whole rubber band start thing on the old Gooney Bird. Reminds me of those rubber band powered balsa wood planes I used to assemble when I was a kid lol.
Stuff about the old days like this really fascinates me, and I mean not just your era but also decades prior. I really want gain some greater insight into all the little details and tidbits of how things were, as much as I can. It's the sort of thing that would really help in adding some realism and character to aviation fiction writing.
I like the whole rubber band start thing on the old Gooney Bird. Reminds me of those rubber band powered balsa wood planes I used to assemble when I was a kid lol.
if you can, read this - it's not mine, and the posting explains that... if you can, get the book somehow - it is superior and explains things like no one else can...
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20385517/
V.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20385517/
V.
oh absolutely it did... I was ever so grateful to have avoided that one... oddly enough, I have a good friend who contracted to Afghanistan twice. The money was good and he paid off all his bills and his house. Then, he was out riding his bicycle with a group of other bikers, there was a collision, and he was in a coma for four days.
Life plays such tricks on you...
V.
Life plays such tricks on you...
V.
I have no reason not to believe any of these stories. I worked for 4 years in an aluminum ingot casting plant. My job was to run a rotary furnace to melt scrap aluminum which was transported to another building in the plant to be cast into huge ingots. The work was miserable, the company saw us as damn near disposable and most new hires lasted less than two weeks. In my four years I saw (and heard) things going on there that made me realize that bat-s**t crazy people will do damn near ANYTHING if you don't keep an eye on them.
And sometimes, in the name of making production, one or two of those bat-s**t crazy things were my own doing.
So yeah, no doubts in my mind.
*hardhat hugs*
And sometimes, in the name of making production, one or two of those bat-s**t crazy things were my own doing.
So yeah, no doubts in my mind.
*hardhat hugs*
When I was at Hangar 8, they set up a huge smelter right in front of the hangar, and started taking old airplanes apart. I didn't like it because if the darned thing had blown up the explosion would have come right into the hangar. One night I was coming back from the line and the darned thing was sitting there with no one around. It was running, and around the perimeter were other fires of magnesium parts removed from the smelter when they caught fire. I called the fire department, and they finally shut the thing down.
The sad part of this - I watched them cut up that movie DC-8. It was the end of that story, and I think I shall ever remember the aircraft's ending.
*hugs a bunch...
V.
The sad part of this - I watched them cut up that movie DC-8. It was the end of that story, and I think I shall ever remember the aircraft's ending.
*hugs a bunch...
V.
As long as there's a record of somekind be it offical or just recorded recollections a truth of somekind lives on.
Even as offical records get lost and the recorded recollections fade away it'll still be remebered by words of mouth
as younger men and their older mentors share tales and legends and pass them down ad infinitum.
The truth may get a little muddied as time goes and people added their flourishes and embellishments but something will always be there. ^_^
Even as offical records get lost and the recorded recollections fade away it'll still be remebered by words of mouth
as younger men and their older mentors share tales and legends and pass them down ad infinitum.
The truth may get a little muddied as time goes and people added their flourishes and embellishments but something will always be there. ^_^
I and others tried to get Dad to record some of his tales... he never did sadly and the world is poorer for it... he had a ghost writer willing to help him as I also offered... he would have had to change the names to protect the guilty that were friends at the time some were life long friends.
These are some very interesting stories, you told us, there! I wouldn't have expected such stories to come from the professional civilian aviation... It's always very interesting to hear about people's experience in aviation.
It somehow reminds me of the tug plane at the gliding club I'm flying at, a 1973 Morane-Saulnier 893; the craft shows signs of corrosion, eventually, you can find some lost screws and bolts in the depths of the fuselage, we have no idea where they come from, doesn't prevent it from flying, though. Among other things, the rear-view mirror is only held by a huge amount of duct tape, as it's white you don't see it at first sight but once you close up... We also had a leaking shock absorber, for a while the aircraft was not leveled and the plane had to taxi and take off askew. When we fixed it, we needed to find a pump that could pressurised up to 35 bar, the only one we found was a cheap tiny chinese manual bike pump that could, theoretically, pump up to 50 bar, it took quite a while and a lot of force to pump the 35 bar into the shock absorber with that tiny pump... And once, with that same aircraft, I was helping on the take off when, after landing, the pilot asked me to come, I got on the wing and he asked me to check the leading edge of the wings since he thought he had a bird strike. So I checked and saw nothing, when I was inspecting the nose gear leg, as I saw no damage, I rose my head to yell at the pilot that everything was good but my face stopped to face only half of the spinner. There was no bird strike; the spinner peeled away mid-flight, the glider pilot who was being towed saw half of the spinner passing over the tow plane and thought it was a bird. As a result, the aircraft flew a week without a spinner and had to stop flying when the engine was overheating before to resume activity. And sometimes, the canopy also lock itself closed, it already happened that we got pilots trapped in the cockpit because of the corrosion.
Though, it also reminds me of an accident report I had to study during my ATC training; back in the 80s in Russia, a Tu-134 failed its landing, bounced on the ground before and burnt on the ground killing 70 people. It was later found that both pilots had a bet and the flight captain wanted to prove he could land using only instruments, they closed the curtains in the cockpit. Spoiler alert, he couldn't.
It somehow reminds me of the tug plane at the gliding club I'm flying at, a 1973 Morane-Saulnier 893; the craft shows signs of corrosion, eventually, you can find some lost screws and bolts in the depths of the fuselage, we have no idea where they come from, doesn't prevent it from flying, though. Among other things, the rear-view mirror is only held by a huge amount of duct tape, as it's white you don't see it at first sight but once you close up... We also had a leaking shock absorber, for a while the aircraft was not leveled and the plane had to taxi and take off askew. When we fixed it, we needed to find a pump that could pressurised up to 35 bar, the only one we found was a cheap tiny chinese manual bike pump that could, theoretically, pump up to 50 bar, it took quite a while and a lot of force to pump the 35 bar into the shock absorber with that tiny pump... And once, with that same aircraft, I was helping on the take off when, after landing, the pilot asked me to come, I got on the wing and he asked me to check the leading edge of the wings since he thought he had a bird strike. So I checked and saw nothing, when I was inspecting the nose gear leg, as I saw no damage, I rose my head to yell at the pilot that everything was good but my face stopped to face only half of the spinner. There was no bird strike; the spinner peeled away mid-flight, the glider pilot who was being towed saw half of the spinner passing over the tow plane and thought it was a bird. As a result, the aircraft flew a week without a spinner and had to stop flying when the engine was overheating before to resume activity. And sometimes, the canopy also lock itself closed, it already happened that we got pilots trapped in the cockpit because of the corrosion.
Though, it also reminds me of an accident report I had to study during my ATC training; back in the 80s in Russia, a Tu-134 failed its landing, bounced on the ground before and burnt on the ground killing 70 people. It was later found that both pilots had a bet and the flight captain wanted to prove he could land using only instruments, they closed the curtains in the cockpit. Spoiler alert, he couldn't.
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