Dan Wilson

The cams (mentioned above) are used to position the "Back Up" valve in the valve housing which ports pressure to allow the low pitch stops to retract. Here is an extract from my Lockheed Engine manual, too bad the engine manual is the only one I kept when I retired. I thought I had given them all away and found this one hanging out in the attic a couple of years ago

Well its not a Herk story but waaaaay back when I crewed E3's the washrack was a huge challenge in the winter. There was a pretty good slope on the ramp to get it into the wash rack, and in winter you could only get a jet in there if the MAC ramp was empty because it took a lot of room to move the bird up that slope. The ramp (slope) would almost always be covered in ice, so you would take this 250,000 lb airplane hooked behind you and go full speed and take the sharp turn towards the wash rack. Imagine this, you have two and a half Herks behind your Uke and its fishtailing all over the place while you go balls to the wall trying to get in the hanger. Normally you would get up to the door tracks of the wash rack and maybe get the nose wheel up before you stalled and the jet would drag you back down the slope. I have spent HOURS trying to get a jet in the wash rack and sometimes didn't even get it in before shift change. Realize these MB2's are the BIG ones and they still couldn't get er done most of the time - man I always hated wash rack.

I am just waiting for Chairman O to Bow to the Queen and apologize for all the horrible Terrorist actions of Gen. Washington and the other terrorists for attacking the English unprovoked:mad: Oh how our honorable country has sunken to the point its not our country anymore

Welcome to the "other side" Arch:D Sure took you long enough LOL

C-5 takeoff briefing Should we takeoff it'll be an In-Flight emergency

I started flying Herks in TAC (EC-130E's) and it sucked. They were the tightest bastards with money, lucky I could get a flight suit or thermals. Need some flight gloves - gotta turn in the old pair. No such thing as a spare pair in the old helmet bag. Nothing like going to an Aircrew confrence and having Gen Creech ask what the hell are all these "Crew Chiefs" doing here, after all there are no enlisted Aircrew in TAC:mad: When I got to MAC in Germany (37th TAS) I thought I was in heaven, getting gear was no problem at all.

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Are you in Albuquerque by any chance? If you are then you can go by the extended start limits for High Pressure Altitude and sometimes throw in High Temp (40c) as well. What kind of "on speed" time do you get starting #2 first? Usually we would find that the load control valve on the goat would be the culprit if it would go beyond the extended start limits.

Is that the bird sitting on the test firing range with the C-27?

Tiny You and yours are in our family's thoughts tonight, and in our prayers. If you need anything please dont hesitate to ask, anything at all.

.....Some drool rolled down from the edge of her chin when spied the condition her sister was in..... Frank Zappa, philosopher of our modern times

A man walked into a curio shop in Galveston Texas. Looking around at the exotica, he noticed a very life-like, life sized bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but it looked so striking that he decided he must have it. He took it to the owner and asked "How much is the bronze rat?" "Twelve dollars for the rat, a hundred dollars if you bring it back," said the owner. The man gave the shop owner twelve dollars. "I'll take the rat; And I won't be bringing it back." As he walked down the street carrying the bronze rat, he noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of alleys and sewers, and began following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting, so he began to walk a little bit faster. Within a couple of blocks, the group of rats behind him grew to over a hundred, and they began squealing. He started to trot towards the Harbor. He took a nervous look around and saw that the rats numbered in the thousands, maybe in the millions, and they were all squealing and coming towards him faster and faster. Terrified, he ran to the edge of the water and threw the bronze rat as far out into the Harbor as he could. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the water after it, and were drowned. The man walked back to the curio shop. "Aha," said the owner, "You're bringing it back !" "Actually no," said the man. "I came back to see how much you want for that little bronze Mexican over there!

Some of the guys I know are deepwater drillers, here is a good rant on whats going on now and who's to blame. AMERICANS FOR OFFSHORE DRILLING: PATRIOTIC RESISTANCE: I am dependent on Ultra-Deepwater Drilling for my income. The shutdown of Ultra-Deepwater Drilling is an unfair attack on the petroleum industry. British Petroleum Americas (B.P.) failure to perform their drilling operation in a safe manner is your issue. We as an industry are aware of the many B.P. failures on the Transocean Deepwater Horizon. The 11 Men that lost their lives are our brothers. Unsafe well practices by B.P. must be investigated. The root cause is a failure to resolve a poor primary cement job. B.P. had knowledge that the primary cement job had failed; their continued operation was unsafe. As the operator the men on the Deepwater Horizon trusted that B.P. would work safe. Federal government shares cause for allowing B.P. to continue to operate in the United States. B.P. has numerous safety failures and violation of Federal and industry standards. As Ultra-Deepwater Drillers we demand safety at our work sites. Exploration Drilling is dangerous work. Each day we confront danger by using safe work practices. These work practices are a standard for our industry that we as workers demand. Government only steps in when they can make profit from our labor. Government safety standards require bribes by corporate raiders who also steal our labor. When we die in helicopters there are no memorials. When we burn to death there is no green peace outrage. If we drown in frigid waters there is no Presidential visit with our families. When we lose a leg, arm, hand or foot government does not shut down for a single second. Media does not visit men that cannot stand straight because of failed backs from the heavy lifting required in our jobs. We shut down operations when someone is hurt. We perform safety stand downs to prove our work can continue forward safely. We pre task each operation to ensure safety. We observe each other as a natural part of our work to keep each other safe. Government does not keep me or my workmates safe we do it because we care about each other. We know what a wife goes through when a husband is lost. We have raised children of lost work mates. We are brothers. We are Teams of men that provide oil and gas to America. Oil field workers hear the garbage of those who don’t have a clue what our families deal with each day. When we miss the first steps of our children do you care? When we leave women to take care of a household by their selves do you care? Our loved ones die and we are on a rig hundreds of miles away do you care? Hurricanes enter the gulf and we are stuck offshore do you care? When we see friends burn to death do you care? When we are clear that a company has killed our fellow workers do you care? Environmentalists, Politicians and Corporate fat cats have never produced one single barrel of oil. You regulate my labor. You tax my labor. You steal the blood of good men Standards for my labor require me to pass test (urine test, breath test, HUET) before I am allowed on the job site. Yet you give my dollars to those who are never tested. You feed America our bloods labor. What can any of you produce that is of value to this nation? Each of you is a parasite on the backs of Americans and workers. You fly around the globe on jets fueled by our labor. You drive your armed motorcades on fuel that we provide you. Your natural gas heaters are fueled with our blood. When you talk about alternative energy you slap our face for all we have given you. You are Al Gore whining pigs at a plastic trough that we provided you. You are Hollywood millionaires that don’t provide anything of value. Scream about clean energy while driving and flying around the globe. Each person in government that allowed the President to shut down Ultra-Deepwater Exploration failed working men in women. B.P. will never meet the needs of our families. Lawyers with law firms will turn this case into a class action law suit that will line their pockets. Blood money paid for by Oil Workers. We have just given 11 brothers to the effort of providing a nation with oil and gas. Politicians now repay us with unemployment. I am a proud American Oil Worker. I am not proud of the thieves that are destructing the American Oil Workers way of life. Shame on Politicians and those you work with. When you shut down our work you only bring pain to the innocent. You need to understand we are not union workers with a hand out. We have invented and built an industry that provides America with tools for independence. Oil Workers understand pain, we learn from every mistake that spills a drop of our blood. When you hurt one of us; we will bring pain to your political dream world. Wake up Washington when you shut down our rigs you solve nothing. You are creating a burden on hard working men and women. We will not allow your destruction of our work efforts. Your lies about caring for our safety are wasted words. We know more about safety then the corporate giant B.P. Your efforts should be to control B.P. and their created oil spill. While America screams at the environmental cost, remember your liability. Not one Oil Worker gave B.P. permission to drill. Not one Oil Worker overlooked the B.P. failures of the past. The men on the Deepwater Horizon knew something was wrong. Failed negative test were a clear indication that the drilling fluid should not be displaced. B.P. knew they failed to bump their cement plug on the casing cement job. It should be investigated how much they over displaced the cement. B.P. made the decision not run a cement bond log. Each of you must look at real facts Blow Out Preventers are well named; they are not Blow Out Stoppers. Follow safety practices that don’t allow blow-outs. B.P. allowed this blow-out to take place. Stopping the blow out in deep water is the lesson we are all watching. How did B.P. fail to turn back with key indications that the well was flowing? All the signs were given; concerns were raised by members of the Horizon crews. B.P. acted with an arrogant disregard for human life and safety. B.P. deserves punishment for their disregard. We have already started implementing testing to verify we will not have another Horizon incident. We have cried at the loss of our brothers. Shame is not ours. America may hate us and what we do; because we are painted as bad men. After 20 years of success the speculation that we are men with no concern for our environment is out of line. We are not the millionaire C.E.O.’s that we work for. We are men with families that trust us to earn a living at a dangerous job. Each hitch offshore we work to return all crew members to their loved ones. Every man that does this work cares about his nation. Your failure to allow us to make America energy independent is recorded for history to judge. You have sold out your nation; not the Ultra-Deepwater Drill Crews. Trust that we will not stand-by idle as you destroy our work. We are not some union wimps that rely on government assistance. You keep us out of work for 6 months; watch the power that will join the Tea Party Movement. We are men that shaped and built this industry with blood and sweat. We will engineer a massive shut down of your permit to wreck lives. Someone should investigate who is making profit on this spill. Check the ties to the Obama Administration. Very well said Thanks to Mr. Milton

Maybe the jet was good and it was offered a toad to lick as a reward:rolleyes:

Yep, if that plane didn't have a power to weight ratio of a bazillion to one that bird would have been all over with once he hit the wheel pod (that and he must have sacrificed a goat before the race).

Now this is one lucky puppy and then some. http://www.redbullairrace.com/cs/Satellite/en_air/Video/Qualifying-Highlights,-Windsor-021242857591037

Fin Stall only occurs (er, well I guess never say only) on the herk and the DC-3/C-47 and its only because of the way the airflow comes off the props/wings and impacts the stabilizers. If they put counter rotating props on the two wings (like a P-38) this would be a non issue. I would never say that it was simply a "situational awareness" failure, that is waaaay too easy a label to throw out for something that can happen quicker than the speed of human thought. You could call it "it was just your time" and be about as close to the truth. Student story here from the 550th SOS, one night we were flying spare tanker for a formation refueling, IP in the left seat and student in the right seat. We were heading south on the AR track by the Rio Grande, at one point on this track you will pass a ridge line that ALWAYS is bumpy as hell because of the way it funnels the wind. We had the hoses out, 70 percent flaps and somewhere around 110 KIAS; the IP is watching the primary and the helo's to critique the students flying position with the student at the controls. We just pass east of this mountain and I knew that we were going to bounce, as soon as we do the student automatically tries to stabilize his flying position. Before you know it the heading started to swing, the wing starts to drop, we start to lose altitude and the most unusual buffet I ever felt (and pretty damn violent) sets in. The IP was all over it almost as quick as I could (and did) scream “stall†or we wouldn’t have made it home that evening. This whole sequence of events from start to finish happened within seconds and very few seconds at that, this is the reason that I say you cant call it a situational awareness failure as it happens almost too fast to really be aware of it.

You missed that they switch out the prop with a known good prop, that would (normally) eliminate the prop and bring it down to engine, rigging or cosmic rays. By the video I am assuming that this is taking place on the test stand as well? If so that pretty much eliminates truss mounts and wing structure cracks. At this point I would say call Anton LaVey and sacrifice the goat

:eek: That is one huge blade angle change!!! Looks like 10 degrees or more - ouch

Have you even had one of those years where it just didn't pay to crawl out of the coffin and you should have just pulled the graveyard dirt back over you instead? Last Nov a good buddy's wife lost the fight with Cancer so I spent a lot of time helping him get through that one (and still am) Last Nov I lost an Uncle to Cancer Last Dec I lost an Uncle to Cancer Last Feb Shawn Kovach took his final flight Last March I had a cousin get murdered (and no, I didn't do it) The end of May I got a phone call that my Grandmother In Phoenix had about two weeks to live, the cause? You guessed it, The big C (that's where I have been the last two weeks). While we are dealing with Gram getter her ready to go, her "boyfriend" (or whatever the hell you call it) that has been with her since just after my grandfather died back in 70, done woke up dead last week. Then we had to shag butt back here because my Daughters surgery went bad and all the lingering problems that entails (seems like all her bits are in the wrong places and somethings beating up her liver and tearing up her bile ducts or something), so now we got to work with the girl (paying her bills since she hasn't been able to work in the last couple of months) and didn't get to hang out long enough to see my grandmother off through the sunset. On the way back this morning we stopped off in Midwest city to visit Clifford and June (some old neighbors) and she's not going to last another month because (bet you couldn't guess this one) Cancer. And there actually are two or three other deaths that I just cant pull out of my zombie brain at this time (just pulled into the house coming back from Phoenix a couple of hours ago). Lost two old family pets and just a whole snowpile of stuff, and I could swear its all because of my move this (now next) month to Indiana, everytime we move its a disaster but I wouldn't even know what you would call the last year - geez oh pete, all I can say is Himmel Gott, I am glad this is the last move, I dont think western civilization would survive if I attempted to move again!! But I did find out I still aint too old to drive straight through from FL to Phoenix with only food and fuel stops (1768 miles) and drive nonstop back 2100 miles, the Northern Route, not quite as much Texas), but then again, issued Narcotics and Amphetamines helped out quite a bit on that one. Another good side is for a nominal fee, you can send that money grubbing Ex-Wife to hang out with me for a month or so and maybe your problems will fix themselves:rolleyes:

Yep, better safe than replacing all the belly skin:D Besides if you have those high speed low drag gear straps its a whole lot quicker to do than the chain bit. Those things are the kats nuts

I received an Email from Herb Black about the possible start of a Shadow Heritage Organization, right now its in the Email address collection stage. If you would like me to forward the email to you let me know and I will shoot it off. The facebook page may be an offshoot of the same attempt, guess I will check it out when I get back in town in a couple of weeks. Dan

Gotta love it (love it that I aint in any of those pictures that is) Thanks for the link