2020 New Random Pics

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

Old Rt.66 Sinclair Service Station in Paris Springs, MO. 5/5/23

[GH85Carrera]

Summer temperatures are back up!


1951: An armada of ships containing 12,000 workers and 300,000 tons of cargo departed Norfolk, Virginia en-route to Greenland to build Thule Air Base. Arriving in Greenland in July, they worked around the clock in the short Arctic summer to complete the base before Baffin Bay froze up for the winter.

My dad flew many missions in a C-124 from Dover, DE to Thule. He said the local joke for new crew was there is a naked woman behind every tree. When he was up for a transfer he was offered Minot, or Hawaii. He said he jumped at Hawaii after spending too much time in Thule in the freezing cold.

[john70t]

May I present to you the internal brain song for the next half hour:

[KNS]

[KNS]

Glen,

You may have read this article - it's a great story of a C-124 landing in Germany in miserable conditions. A must read for the pilots here on the board.

https://disciplesofflight.com/zero-zero/

[Seahawk]

That was great, KNS.

[KNS]

^^
Thanks - I was talking with an instrument ground instructor not long ago and suggested he include it in his class as a "time filler". If nothing else to teach the importance of discipline in instrument flying.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by KNS

Glen,

You may have read this article - it's a great story of a C-124 landing in Germany in miserable conditions. A must read for the pilots here on the board.

https://disciplesofflight.com/zero-zero/

My dad was THE first pilot to land a C-124 in Pago Pago. He had a heavy load, and stopped with just a few feet remaining.

He too had a story of landing at San Antonio it those same conditions in a C-47. He said he had a very high ranking civilian passenger that insisted they land because he had an important meeting. He said as they touched down they could only see the next landing light, and thought they were about to run off the end. Then another light, and another. The got it all shut down, and the follow me truck took over an hour to find them, and it ran into the tail section and damaged it so that it was not safe to taxi it. The second ground crew took and hour to come find them, and take them to the control tower.

The civilian passenger told my dad he did not know they had landed until he heard the engines slowing down.

[mrbeverlyhills]

Originally Posted by KNS

Glen,

You may have read this article - it's a great story of a C-124 landing in Germany in miserable conditions. A must read for the pilots here on the board.

https://disciplesofflight.com/zero-zero/

Great story, seems like there are some pilots here. My father flew Spits durning the war, ran away like so many and lied about his age. He says this book is pretty much just how it was, I enjoyed it enormously:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518136.First_Light

[masraum]

Not exactly a photo, but too funny not to share.

[GH85Carrera]

[GH85Carrera]

San Angelo, TX 1972
I remember filling up my 1960 VW Bug (10 gallons max) at a full service place that washed my windshield, checked the oil, checked the tire pressure, gave me green stamps for my mom, and asked about the family, for $2.50. The first time it cost me three whole dollars to fill up I was outraged! I don't remember any self service places back then. My bug had no gas gauge, so I drove until it sputtered, flipped it to reserve, and stopped for gas. So most times it was 9 gallons of gas. And always be 100% sure you put the lever back into normal mode and not in the reserve mode. Mt entire family all stopped at the same place.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by KNS

Glen,

You may have read this article - it's a great story of a C-124 landing in Germany in miserable conditions. A must read for the pilots here on the board.

https://disciplesofflight.com/zero-zero/

When my dad was station in Korea, part of his job was to assign the crew to the aircraft that were flight ready. Korea was at the bottom of the supply chain, and parts were often unavailable, and they scavenged parts from grounded aircraft.

He always assigned himself the sketchiest aircraft. All C-47. He had 13 in flight emergencies in row. After 9 emergencies, the base commander wanted to ride right seat, and he said no one has 10 emergencies in a row. As soon as they rotated, the left engine went past the stops and overspeed as it was suddenly just a giant barn door, He pulled the power and called in emergency number 10. He said it was not part of normal procedures, but his only interest was to get on the ground safely. He did a 180, and landed downwind as he said there was no way they could go around.

He said the base commander was sweating profusely, but he did his part, and they landed safely.

This article is from another emergency in the string. The ground crew started a betting pool on how long it would go on. 13 was the lucky number.




Dad said after the Pueblo was seized, they were moved from the end of the parts supply to just under the Pentagon and every backorder ever, was filled. Troops and supplies flooded in and the challenge was finding a place for everything.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When my dad was station in Korea, part of his job was to assign the crew to the aircraft that were flight ready. Korea was at the bottom of the supply chain, and parts were often unavailable, and they scavenged parts from grounded aircraft.

He always assigned himself the sketchiest aircraft. All C-47. He had 13 in flight emergencies in row. After 9 emergencies, the base commander wanted to ride right seat, and he said no one has 10 emergencies in a row. As soon as they rotated, the left engine went past the stops and overspeed as it was suddenly just a giant barn door, He pulled the power and called in emergency number 10. He said it was not part of normal procedures, but his only interest was to get on the ground safely. He did a 180, and landed downwind as he said there was no way they could go around.

He said the base commander was sweating profusely, but he did his part, and they landed safely.

This article is from another emergency in the string. The ground crew started a betting pool on how long it would go on. 13 was the lucky number.




Dad said after the Pueblo was seized, they were moved from the end of the parts supply to just under the Pentagon and every backorder ever, was filled. Troops and supplies flooded in and the challenge was finding a place for everything.

Great stuff! Thank you for sharing. You should do your own thread with interesting anecdotes like this.

[KNS]

^^ Yep - cool story!!

[GH85Carrera]

[Seahawk]

To quote the inestimable Paul Crewes: "My, you have lovely hair. You ever find any spiders in it?"

Great post, Glen. Different days.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[GH85Carrera]

One way to see the picture, save the image to your computer, and just look at the icon of the image as a /2 inch square.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My brother and I were watching a Raider game probably '69-70 and we were throwing whole peanuts down the stands. Just then a woman with a beehive like this turned around to look back our way and the peanut lodged in her hairdo. Later in the game she looked up again and the peanut was still there.