(BUFDRVR) wrote:
"Les Matheson" wrote:
KenG wrote:

My contribution. Offutt AFB to Kadena AFB non-stop on Rivet Joint.
Refuel over Alaska. Immediately after refuel, the aircraft was tasked
for a real world tasking. Since my clearance was only Secret, I was
directed to sit in the aft crew-rest seats (aft-facing). I was not to
get up or even look around. 10 hours of pure boredom. 21 hours total
time inflight.

How about Hurlburt Field, Fl - Al Karjh (PSAB) Saudi Arabia, non-stop in an
MC-130E. 28.5 hrs of total pain. By the end of it we didn't even want to
walk out off the aircraft, we just wanted to fall out of the seats. Then
the (insert expletive here) Saudis made us go through customs with all our
bags (each of us had at least 4 B-4 bags). That took three hours; then we
had to inprocess at the S-1 and then we got billeting assignments.

Barksdale AFB to Korea and back, 33+ hours.

Try 313 hours 35 minutes (13 days and 13 nights) in the air including
adjusting the points and changing the 200 hp Lycoming's spark plugs
via crawling outside the cockpit and straddling the cowling three
inches away from the spinning prop!!

-From "The Flying Years" by Lou Reichers