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[Don Pyeatt]

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Any details on this? Date, place?

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[John Szalay]

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EARLY YEARS -- Refueling in mid-air by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John
P. Richter, at Rockwell Field, Calif., June 1923. They stayed in the air
four days using DeHaviland airplanes.

http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=160&page=4

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/040309-F-9999G-003.jpg

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> EARLY YEARS -- Refueling in mid-air by Capt. Lowell H. Smith
> and Lt. John P. Richter, at Rockwell Field, Calif., June 1923.
> They stayed in the air four days using DeHaviland airplanes.
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> http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=160&page=4
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> http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/040309-F-9999G-0
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I wonder if they had relief tubes in those days, or maybe just a
jar. <grin>

--
HP, aka Jerry

"Don't say 'can't' when you really mean 'won't'"

[John Szalay]

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> John Szalay added these comments in the current discussion du
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>> EARLY YEARS -- Refueling in mid-air by Capt. Lowell H. Smith
>> and Lt. John P. Richter, at Rockwell Field, Calif., June 1923.
>> They stayed in the air four days using DeHaviland airplanes.
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>> http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=160&page=4
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>> http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/040309-F-9999G-0
>> 03.jpg
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> I wonder if they had relief tubes in those days, or maybe just a
> jar. <grin>
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TRIVIA:

Know who held the patent for the heated relief tube to keep your
Johnson from sticking to that same tube ?
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Ben Rich... of Skunk Works fame !

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John Szalay added these comments in the current discussion du
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>> I wonder if they had relief tubes in those days, or maybe
>> just a jar. <grin>
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> TRIVIA:
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> Know who held the patent for the heated relief tube to keep
> your Johnson from sticking to that same tube ?
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> Ben Rich... of Skunk Works fame !
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Why am I not surprised here, John?! You're a true wellspring of
knowledge on the Skunk Works.

A Chrysler friend early in my career told me he was a B-24 pilot
stationed in the Phillipines late in the war. He said that the guys
then put some fur around the relief tube to prevent sticking, which
I understand, was quite painful to the uninitiated.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"Don't say 'can't' when you really mean 'won't'"

[John Szalay]

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> A Chrysler friend early in my career told me he was a B-24 pilot
> stationed in the Phillipines late in the war. He said that the guys
> then put some fur around the relief tube to prevent sticking, which
> I understand, was quite painful to the uninitiated.
>

from Another book I got my hands on a while back,
B-17 crews used to relieve themselves into the bombbay, causing a real
problem of the pee freezing and kept the bombbay doors from being able to
open.

I remember back in my early teens, climbing into a B-47 at Hickham during
the "Dominic" H-bomb tests around Johnston island, pilots relief tube was
not secured, and hung down down alongside the seats. hit me in the head,
all I could think at the time, was:

BOY, I hope the groundcrew cleaned this plane before I got in here.....