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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

I didn't go in until 84.
In the AF, engines and Fuel Cell were completely different careers. I think the navy combines them.

In fact, engines was also broken down into prop and turbo fan.
Different shredout.

I wouldn't have met your Dad.


The stories are the reason why we had very stringent rules for working on the fuel system and even more stringent rules for open tank maintenance.
You wouldn't believe the number of people that thought we were overly cautious.
I was the hybrid certified tech at my automotive dealership. Everyone else thought lock out/ tag out was a joke. Anyway, I'm still alive.
 
One of my last -141 missions was ferrying an A-10 squadron to Aviano during the Bosnia thing. We landed in Windsor Locks CT and doing the walkaround there was just a crap ton of fuel streaming down the fuselage from leading and trailing edge of wing from under the sail panels. This was an aircraft with 44k flight hours and with the wing box tcto weight limits.
Total hazmat incident...

Anyway, a Tiger team came up from McGuire and worked all night on the problem. Put back together and sign it off "no defect noted".
We flew another 50 hours of international flight without a repeat. I was never so nervous about flying in all my life. My mind always flashed back to my dad's stories (a B-24 pilot) about B-24's just blowing up on take off.
You remember what units you were dragging across?
Boise, Baltimore and Barnes joined up in MA at Barnes for the flight over. Barnes and Windsor Locks are about 12 miles apart. So that could've been the same group, but we flew out of Trapani, Sicily.
The Baltimore guys were cool, the Barnes guys were ASSHOLES...
 
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