Freight Dogs article

interesting article:

http://www.mensvogue.com/business/bl...3/freight_dogs

Having been one, I consider freight dogs those poor souls who fly general
aviation planes carrying small boxes, not cargo-carrying jets. DC-3s, Twin
Beeches, 310s, Chieftans, et al...that's the essence of freight-doggery.

Bob Gardner

"xxx" wrote in message
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interesting article:

http://www.mensvogue.com/business/bl...3/freight_dogs

"Bob Gardner" wrote:

Having been one, I consider freight dogs those poor souls who fly general
aviation planes carrying small boxes, not cargo-carrying jets. DC-3s, Twin
Beeches, 310s, Chieftans, et al...that's the essence of freight-doggery.

Agree.

I see these guys in their jeans and tennis shoes loading war-weary Barons and
210s at BFM and taking off into weather I wouldn't try on a bet.

Those are some no-**** airmen, baby, and they have my respect.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

I worked for an outfit that had two Chieftans and a P-Navajo...the Navajo
was used when the Chieftans were in for maintenance. One dark night, taking
off from Oakland in the P-Navajo with the plane so packed that I had to
crawl over the packages to get to the cockpit (the truck driver closed the
door for me), the left engine stumbled at about 400 feet entering the clouds
but cleared up as soon as I retarded the left throttle. I thanked the
controller for his "cleared to land any runway" transmission and continued
to Seattle. After landing, I had to call ground control to have them send
someone over to open the door. The Navajo had a fuel controller problem and
never flew again (for that company). After thinking about what I would have
done had there been a fire or similar mishap, I quit.

Bob Gardner

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Bob Gardner" wrote:

Having been one, I consider freight dogs those poor souls who fly general
aviation planes carrying small boxes, not cargo-carrying jets. DC-3s,
Twin Beeches, 310s, Chieftans, et al...that's the essence of
freight-doggery.

Agree.

I see these guys in their jeans and tennis shoes loading war-weary Barons
and 210s at BFM and taking off into weather I wouldn't try on a bet.

Those are some no-**** airmen, baby, and they have my respect.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message . ..
I worked for an outfit that had two Chieftans and a P-Navajo...the Navajo
was used when the Chieftans were in for maintenance. One dark night, taking
off from Oakland in the P-Navajo with the plane so packed that I had to
crawl over the packages to get to the cockpit (the truck driver closed the
door for me), the left engine stumbled at about 400 feet entering the clouds
but cleared up as soon as I retarded the left throttle. I thanked the
controller for his "cleared to land any runway" transmission and continued
to Seattle. After landing, I had to call ground control to have them send
someone over to open the door. The Navajo had a fuel controller problem and
never flew again (for that company). After thinking about what I would have
done had there been a fire or similar mishap, I quit.

Bob Gardner


That is the reason there is a STC for a door up front for those 'freighters'.

"xxx" wrote in message ...
interesting article:

http://www.mensvogue.com/business/bl...3/freight_dogs


;-)

Bob Gardner wrote:
Having been one, I consider freight dogs those poor souls who fly general
aviation planes carrying small boxes, not cargo-carrying jets. DC-3s, Twin
Beeches, 310s, Chieftans, et al...that's the essence of freight-doggery.


I also was one, and would concur. If you made it to flying heavy anything, you
ain't a dog any more. You've made it to the big time.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in
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Bob Gardner wrote:
Having been one, I consider freight dogs those poor souls who fly
general aviation planes carrying small boxes, not cargo-carrying
jets. DC-3s, Twin Beeches, 310s, Chieftans, et al...that's the
essence of freight-doggery.


I also was one, and would concur. If you made it to flying heavy
anything, you ain't a dog any more. You've made it to the big time.




Enh. They';re all airplanes. I'd be pretty much just as happy flying a
twin beech again for the same dough. A lot nore deaf, but happy.




Bertie

On Mar 30, 10:21 am, John Smith wrote:


NPR did an interview along this line, Saturday, 29 March. Might have
been the people cited in the article.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=89209781

Susan Stanberg is just sooooooooo annoying......