Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Big John wrote in
:

Bertie

Was flying with Navy in a F2H3. Mission was a practice Special Weapons
(Atmic Bomb) delivery. Rolled in about 14K, lined up and pickled and
started pull out at 6 G's. Then hit jet wash of bird ahead and my bird
went 'whap' (like ssomeone hit it with a big sledge hamer) and after
getting back straight and level looked at G meter and showed 14 G's.

When landed mechs looked at bird and found loose rivits all over it.

An hour or two later I went in hanger and there were two 'metal
benders' with a ball peen hamer and a backing block. They were going
down each rivit line and when they found a lose rivit, the guy inside
held the metal block against the rivit and the guy out side tapped on
the rivit with the ball peen hamer until it was tight again.

Bird made the next deployment on Yorktown to WestPac and returned all
in one piece.

The Air Force would have class 26'd the bird )

And another War Story ends )


Yipes!

I thought I had some good stories!


I've heard the navy actually write off all the airpalnes as they'r
eloaded onto a carrier. If they come back ,it's a bonus..

Bertie


It's the old guys like us who HAVE the stories....simply because we've
survived most of them :-))

Sometimes when I actually have the time to sit down and reflect on some
of the absolutely wild crap I've gotten into and out of in my career it
scares the hell out of me :-))

Take my "famous"... (with the family at least) story about the day I
took the horns off a cow with a P51. Now THERE'S a story!!

This story is so good that every year at Thanksgiving when I forget
everybody in the house has heard it a thousand times and trot it out for
the whole table it's met with shouts of enthusiasm and excitement as
they anxiously await every word of it.
"Oh NO!! Not AGAIN!!!!"
"Jeeze,,Holy Cow Hon....not the damn COW story again!!"

Yup!!!....they can't WAIT to hear the cow story!


--
Dudley Henriques