Yes,
I do observe PPruNe and whilst I may have, for fun, worked as a trolley dolly a few times in my career, between Sydney and Melbourne was the best fun, that wouldn't educate me, as an example, that a DC8-62F takes 14 pallets or a DC8-63F takes 18 pallets.
Ever hear the story of the 2 engined B707 over France, I for one had many a drink with the crew after they managed to get it on the ground and return (by surface) to Oostende, or there was a time when 'we' had 40 metric tons of baby water buffalo, en-route from Billund to Australia, wandering around Tashkent airport for 24 hours having had a DC8 refused Chinese overflight, or there was the punch-up I became involved in, as a staff pax, to overpower a troublesome passenger on board a DC10 en-route from London to LAX.
Interesting! Might have heard about the 707 but really dont remember.There is so many strange and funny things happening specially when one works in or in the way to remote areas.
My worst times was when in the airspace of certain country in Africa, while descending or climbing to be shot at, by ground to air missiles. A few airplane got hit, and in 1987 a L100 got shot down and the crew killed. There was also another plane hit by a missile he lost one engine, and managed to land without casualties. I was a kid at that time just starting my career and never though I could get shot down but today when I think about it it scares me.
And at that time there was a DC-8 flying from Luanda to other parts of that country with fuel as payload!
I remember seeing the big Russian IL76's from Aeroflot taking off and landing and they had some sort of flares launching system in the rear fuselage port and star sides that was launching those flares while they where climbing and descending in a tight circle above the runway, I wonder what they were carrying! At that time there was lots of Russian and Cuban people there, I met loads of Russian nurses in cooperation in that country, thats where my preference to the Ladys from that part of the world started.
Well the brief story of that B707 was that it had departed EBOS with 4 engines and within a period of time one engine detached taking another engine with it thus the aircraft was left with only 2 engines remaining on the other wing. They had lost all hydraulics, most of the controls, one wing had burning fuel p1ssing out of it, and the only way the Captain and F/E had to control it was by throttling back and forth on the remaining 2 engines.
I had known the F/O since I started in this industry in 1979, he always was an idiot, and all they could get out of him was 'mayday, mayday, mayday' whilst the Capt. was hitting him around the head with a newspaper telling him 'they know we've got a problem, now do something useful' :)
Well they elected for an emergency diversion to the nearest airfield, a French military airfield, the crew had to get the landing gear down manually, and eventually the Capt. managed to put it down on the end of the runway but he had no control over it once they were down.
They went hurtling across the grass, with the burning fuel following close behind, and fortunately it was a military airfield where, by sheer fluke, they came to a stop in, like, a giant tray of cat litter specifically there for such a burning fuel problem and that is perhaps the only thing that saved them, the burning fuel got soaked up.
The French miltary were so grateful to have had a real emergency, rather than a fake practice emergency, to deal with they decided that they would go for a few drinks with the crew. Well if you understand cargo crew mentality, particularly after such an emergency, they didn't need asking twice and apparently it was one hell of a party :)
>On A Plane
>
>On a plane bound for New York a flight attendant approached
>a blonde sitting in the first class section and requested that
>she move to coach since she did not have a first class ticket.
>The blonde replied, “I’m blonde; I’m beautiful; I’m going to New
>York; and I’m not moving.”
>
>Not wanting to argue with a customer, the flight attendant asked
>the co-pilot to speak with her. He went to talk with the woman,
>asking her to please move out of the first class section. Again,
>the blonde replied, “I’m blonde; I’m beautiful; I’m going to New
>York, and I’m not moving.”
>
>The co-pilot returned to the cockpit and asked the captain what he
>should do. The captain said, “I’m married to a blonde, and I know how
>to handle this.”
>
>He went to the first class section and whispered in the blonde’s ear.
>She immediately jumped up and ran to the coach section mumbling to
>herself, “Why didn’t someone just say so?”
>
>Surprised, the flight attendant and the co-pilot asked what he said
>to her that finally convinced her to move from her seat. He said,
>”I told her the first class section wasn’t going to New York.”
>
The best fun used to be on empty (no passengers) positioning flights when the aircraft would be that much lighter and, literally, go up like a rocket.
Just as it would be rolling down the runway we'd be putting a couple of the small service trays under our feet and as it went up like a rocket we'd go skiing down the aisle(s) trying to grab hold of an seat back or two before we would crash in to the bar carts stowed in the rear galley :)
Gay Flight attendant (Fag) and some cow with hooded head from some unmentionable country.
Fag: Hello everyone, Captain Marvy is about to land this big scary plane so if it wouldn’t be so much trouble, could we have all your traisy waisy tables up please.
Fag: Checking, finds the hooded cow with tray table still down. Fag repeats the announcement.
Cow: In my country I’m called a princess and I take orders from nobody.
Fag: In my country I’m called a queen so I outrank you, TRAY UP BITCH.
@coleman
2 pricks in a Flightdeck! There is also a varient of one branch and two tomatoes.
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Good jokes and bye for now, looking for greener pastures. I just tought I had to share my lame toughts as I found this forum looking for info about 1036.