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A friend from Texas who worked for the railroad and liked to fly his
supercub along the tracks decided to have a little fun one night. He flew just off the ground down the tracks and just before he got in sight of a freight train roaring down the tracks, he turned on his landing light and proceeded head-on at full speed, headlight to headlight. A hundred yards or so before the inevitable collision he pulled up and climbed away, behind the peppy O-235. But by that time the horrified engineer had locked down the brakes on the train. You should not be bothered with the details, which were quite messy. The next day he awoke to find headlines in the local newspaper, "Train Almost Collides with UFO; Cars Derailed." Statute of limitations has run, he says, and, "Don't you be gettin' no ideas." |
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:49:42 -0500, " jls"
wrote: A friend from Texas who worked for the railroad and liked to fly his supercub along the tracks decided to have a little fun one night. He flew just off the ground down the tracks and just before he got in sight of a freight train roaring down the tracks, he turned on his landing light and proceeded head-on at full speed, headlight to headlight. A hundred yards or so before the inevitable collision he pulled up and climbed away, behind the peppy O-235. But by that time the horrified engineer had locked down the brakes on the train. You should not be bothered with the details, which were quite messy. The next day he awoke to find headlines in the local newspaper, "Train Almost Collides with UFO; Cars Derailed." Statute of limitations has run, he says, and, "Don't you be gettin' no ideas." I'm sure it's older than this, but the first time I heard of that story it was in a fiction book by Daniel V. Gallery written in the early '60s, IIRC. In his story it was a young Navy fighter pilot who was owed money by the railroad and decided to take drastic measures when they wouldn't pay up. Mike Mike Patterson Please remove the spamtrap to email me. |
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Even older. Virtually every book about the early days of flying the mail (ie,
1920 on ) includes such an account. -R.S.Hoover |
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I have a friend that did just that. Thought it was real fun until he tried
the stunt on a Mississippi River tow. He damn near went blind and crashed when they turned their powerful search light on him and followed him as he tried to sneak away. GRIN -- Cy Galley, TC - Chair, Emergency Aircraft Repair, Oshkosh Editor, EAA Safety Programs or Always looking for articles for the Experimenter soon to be Sport Pilot "Veeduber" wrote in message ... Even older. Virtually every book about the early days of flying the mail (ie, 1920 on ) includes such an account. -R.S.Hoover |
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Reminds me of a story told by a local retired Bird Colonel.
He had been flying as a fighter pilot in California and was re-stationed in Texas. It was 1956 or so and he was on the road in his '50' Chevy going through a small town in New Mexico. The cops had a speed trap set outside of town and they got him good. They dragged him right into the kangaroo court room instead of writing him a ticket and letting him go. Evidently in those days many people didn't pay if you let them go. So, he's in front of the judge and gets fined a hearty amount, more than he had on hand. The judge told him he was going to put him in jail for two days. The young Major couldn't afford to be locked up because he had to make it to Lackland AFB or Shepard, can't remember which. The Judge locked him up anyway. Two days later he reported to the flight line in Texas and was given grace for being AWOL. He was assigned an F-86. He told me he asked his crew chief to strip it down and make it clean. They topped it with all the gas they could get in it. He got in and went to something like 35,000 feet over that little ass-wipe city in New Mexico. He put the F-86 in a 90 degree dive over the courthouse. By about the time he got to 15,000 feet he was just supersonic. He said that he started his pull out at 10,000 feet and just barely made it back to horizontal before he hit the ground (his story). That weekend he got a newspaper from the little ass-wipe city and it said that all the windows in the courthouse had been broken and many in the automobiles parked around the building, plus many of the houses in town. The locals were conducting some survey to try and find out who did it, but they never got him. He said he flew away on the deck and landed back in Texas a few hundred miles away. The city town-folk never had a clue who did it. BWB |
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Prior to departing for Vietnam a shipmate had to go through the E&E course they
were running south of Warner Springs in the hills behind Sandy Eggo. Second night of the course, when everyone had been without food for 24 hours and the instructors were just about to round them all up and begin their bull**** 'interrogations' an idiot driving C-120 made a low pass over a particular place and kicked out a seabag filled with Big Macs & fries. Or so I heard :-) -R.S.Hoover PS -- The trick is not to pack them too tightly. Duct tape the burgers & fries in individual packs wrapped with foam or whatever then pack them into a nylon net laundry bag, but not too tightly, then put the laundry bag int othe seabag with lots of crushables around it and on either end. Takes two to tango -- pilot & a kicker. And it helps if you pull the pax-side seat. I understand you should make the drop just as you add power and be ready for the yaw when the kicker forces the door outboard. You might want to practice this a few times. Just above a stall, wheels in the weeds, the groceries are still going to travel about a hundred feet before they hit the ground. I understand the glider strip at Otay Lakes is good spot for that sort of practice. Also a handy spot to leave the seat, dress the kicker in a body harness, etc. Or was. 1969 or thereabouts. Probably just another of those sea-stories you hear. |
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![]() I understand you should make the drop just as you add power and be ready for the yaw when the kicker forces the door outboard. You might want to practice this a few times. Just above a stall, wheels in the weeds, the groceries are still going to travel about a hundred feet before they hit the ground. I understand the glider strip at Otay Lakes is good spot for that sort of practice. Also a handy spot to leave the seat, dress the kicker in a body harness, etc. Or was. 1969 or thereabouts. Probably just another of those sea-stories you hear. Laughed my ass off. Thanks. I was seeing the kicker in a winter survival suit in my mind's eye, lest he froze to death...but maybe not in Sandy Eggo. BWB |
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I was at the "Crash Boat" beach near Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico when a small
group of what turned out to be B-36 crew was making arrangements with a local to bring food, booze and broads out to "Goat" Island where they were scheduled,(of course they were not supposed to know when) to be taken out to the island for a survival practice. You were normally just told upon landing that you had just crashed on "Goat" island and what ever gear you had with you was what you got to take. These guys were ahead of the game for sure. Stu Fields ex SAC: "Badwater Bill" wrote in message ... I understand you should make the drop just as you add power and be ready for the yaw when the kicker forces the door outboard. You might want to practice this a few times. Just above a stall, wheels in the weeds, the groceries are still going to travel about a hundred feet before they hit the ground. I understand the glider strip at Otay Lakes is good spot for that sort of practice. Also a handy spot to leave the seat, dress the kicker in a body harness, etc. Or was. 1969 or thereabouts. Probably just another of those sea-stories you hear. Laughed my ass off. Thanks. I was seeing the kicker in a winter survival suit in my mind's eye, lest he froze to death...but maybe not in Sandy Eggo. BWB |
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Stu, you familiar with the Cold War Aviation forum on delphi? Lots of
former SAC crews, especially B-36 folks. Some great war stories. "Stu Fields" wrote in message ... I was at the "Crash Boat" beach near Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico when a small group of what turned out to be B-36 crew was making arrangements with a local to bring food, booze and broads out to "Goat" Island where they were scheduled,(of course they were not supposed to know when) to be taken out to the island for a survival practice. You were normally just told upon landing that you had just crashed on "Goat" island and what ever gear you had with you was what you got to take. These guys were ahead of the game for sure. Stu Fields ex SAC: |
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