Talon Load

Skip, Those pics were actually taken in the last days of P-46 and no those are not Mikey Pies scrawny legs, those are mine, and no that is not the davit you see hanging out the back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In no way would of taken my flight suit off for a low pass over the lake bed, but John Lewis told me if I would, I could drink all the mudslides at Denny's on DET 4's nickel. Bruce

Let me try this again, I'm new at this. Bruce

Hey John, I came across these in my P-46 photo library Bruce

Skip, My memory isn't as good as it used to be, but if I can remember right? We landed at North Base to do an engine running off-load of the package and somebody let you out of the seat, you ran out the crew door and around the back and after the package was off-loaded we were in the process of re-positioning the davit and you jumped up on the ramp with two beers in your hand. Well, Gary and I did what came natural, we reached for the beer and the davit just dropped. I looked at Gary and Gary looked at me and we said "looks like we're staying in Ontario a few more days", then Pete Mohylsky gave us the high-5 and he said "finally I get some stick time". Bruce