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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Paso Robles, California
Posts: 857
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Nothing in the tail. The PT-6 turbo props were mounted further forward. Forward enough we carried fuel in tanks in the aft end of the engine cowl. (the turbo props burnt more fuel than the PW r985's) We could carry 800 pounds in the nose. I would load up with Flying Tiger freight in LAX, drop it off in Phoenix. Then I would load 4000 pounds of USA Today news papers and fly to Santa Fe New Mexico, drop off about 800 lbs. then fly the rest to Albuquerque New Mexico. I used to doze off at times at 0200 or so between PHX and ABQ. ATC would see me drifting off course, yell and wake me up and give me a course correction. My early flying career was, ummm, "interesting". LOL
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Paso Robles, Ca.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind". - Albert Einstein
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