| Re: Memorable flights? Gurus in the sky... |
Subject: Re: Memorable flights? Gurus in the sky... by 1Fast04Vert on 2009/5/13 12:14:30 Being ex USAF flight crew I have a lot of stories. A few of the scarier ones: Lost on engine on take off on a fully loaded C-119. The C119 is not supposed to be able to fly one one engine, but we had maybe the best pilot in the USAF up front. somehow he managed to get us safely back on the ground. We got caught in a serious downdraft in storms over the Chesapeak Bay and went from 5000 ft to 500 ft in a freefall. Things were actually floating in the cabin and we were all pretty sure we were going to die that day. I had a psycho army airborne trooper try to drag me out of the plane when doing a troop drop over NC. Problem was we were dropping them on static line from 1100 ft, my chute was manual opening and required a minimum of 1500 ft to deploy. I actually had to stab the sob in the ribs to make him let go of my harness. We had some real nut cases back then (vietnam era). There are others, but those are the ones I rememmber the most vividly. Dang, now I am having flashbacks. |
