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Originally Posted by BE911SC
One of the senior captains at my airline flew EC-47s in Vietnam c1970-72. Tells great stories of flying with the windows open at 8-10,000 feet and tossing K-rat cans out the window into the propellers. The cans would ping off of the blades and they would try for "secondaries," which meant the can pinged off the prop and then against the fuselage.
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This is one of the best threads ever, IMO, and the pictures are terrific. The story above reminded me of 1 year ago, hanging with my dad and his life-long pals at the coffee shop they go to every day in Minneapolis. I posted this photo before in another thread. My dad is in the center of photo, like I said previously, he's been battling cancer and is in rough shape but still doing his best. The two guys on either side are both 81 y.o. and looking great. The guy in the red shirt is an older guy from the neighborhood who was 90 when I took this, my dad has known him for 70 years.
Jim Cox, the 90 y.o., fought in WW2 and was telling us great stories that day about the little import business he started in while in Europe, this guy is one of those real hustlers who's made millions in life building houses and a doing a bunch of other stuff. He also told us about filling transport planes with Scotch in Scotland for the generals in Germany and France at the end of the war, this was one of the missions they regularly flew. He said that they put so much booze in the planes that they would barely take off.
