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A340 Incident - File 2 of 2 - RUNUP.JPG (1/1) - 1 attachment
KENG wrote in
: Boy, that brings back memories. I got to sit in the back seat once during a full burner run. Had a problem with the intercom at speed and altitude. Ended up not being an intercom problem, but a UHF problem. Still, it was a thrill to be there. THe thing I remember the most is the bird rocking back and forth. KenG 9th AMS/Comm Shop Beale AFB 74-79 Glad it helps , my memories of engine runups are not nearly as exotic. sitting on C-119s and C-124s when they did magchecks at the end of the runway, bouncing in the seat watching the wings flap. and once on a 757 when they did a full power run on one engine. Scared the crap out of the wife, she wanted off that plane. But glad to contribute... Heres another from the slides, looks like it was shot the same night. |
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A340 Incident - File 2 of 2 - RUNUP.JPG (1/1) - File 1 of 3 - PARKED1.JPG (0/1)
Some more from the slides. |
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A340 Incident - File 2 of 2 - RUNUP.JPG (1/1) - File 1 of 3 - PARKED1.JPG (1/1)
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A340 Incident - File 2 of 2 - RUNUP.JPG (1/1) - File 3 of 3 - HEADON.JPG (1/1)
Wow! I used to work in that building in the background.
That was the 513th FMS age hanger. That was back in 79 and 80. Good Ole Moldyhole! Thanks for the memories! J.F. "John Szalay" wrote in message 42... |
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A340 Incident
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:48:24 -0600, "Eric" wrote:
If you want teeth rattling and the feeling that your heart is going to vibrate though your chest, you should try a B-52G with all 8 burning water (water injection for the uninitiated). I never got to work on the SR-71, but their power runs were always awesome. Your teeth rattled from a 1/2 mile away. Well, I got 1/2 that with the old 707 water wagons. They phased them out just as I started working at LAX. I wasn't sad to see the 707's go away, they were a pain in the arse to work on... dirty, nasty and patches on top of patches. Built like the proverbial brick outhouse and nearly bulletproof but I much preferred working on the L-10's and 747's. One of the worst jarring's I ever got was during a 767 engine runup. I was on the headset, leaning against the fuse by the nose gear, half asleep. There was an LST (Lead Systems Technician... a super trouble-shooter, as it were) and a couple of mech's in the cockpit. #2 was already running and they were just starting to spin #1 up when the N1 rotor simply froze. The wing and engine flapped like a bird, the nose jumped a full 2 feet to the right and I amost got dumped on my backside (it was 6 AM and I'd been there all night). I don't know what the N1 %RPM was, I know it was low but still, I couldn't see individual blades. I'd guess maybe 10% or so. I'd never seen (or felt!) anything like it and just automatically assumed it was an engine change, since we were working on the ETOPS program at the time (Extended over water flight with a twin engine) and every time the airplane farted, they changed something. I was pretty excited (not to mention wide awake) and asked the LST what the hell had happened but he just asked if the disk was turning now (it was, rotating slowly in the wind) and when I said yes, he just started it up like nothing had happened. I was pretty well floored, since even a compressor stall was cause for an engine change. I talked to him later and he said "Oh, they do that now and then, the blades get caught up in the sound baffle material." (which was a micarta stuff that got chewed up as the blades grew). Basically, he just blew it off. Funny, I'd never heard of it nor seen it, before or after. Take into account I'd just been recalled after a 5 year lay off and a couple of years in Saudi Arabia and I'd only just started working on the 767's. Still, it rattled me, certainly more than the LST, anyway. The other guys said they'd never seen it before, either. Oh well. The airplane flew off on it's morning flight and made it to London without incident. Weird stuff, it was. Cheers, jc |
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A340 Incident - File 2 of 2 - RUNUP.JPG (1/1) - File 3 of 3 - HEADON.JPG (1/1)
"J.F." wrote in
Wow! I used to work in that building in the background. That was the 513th FMS age hanger. That was back in 79 and 80. Good Ole Moldyhole! Thanks for the memories! J.F. " Glad to be of some help. as you can see the photo had some decoding errors in it. got a couple of more , but the decoding errors in those make them unuseable, thats how old those photos are. got them back in the early days before the internet was mainstream, had to use a manual UUE decoding program.. |
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A340 Incident
Asp Explorer wrote:
With some attention, you'll see is a little scratch on the painting. Peavey_HP_Signature_Guy a écrit : Incident?!?! "K&FKeam" wrote in message ... You may have seen this already. I have several others if interested. ASP Explorer... thats not an old Elite ship you are referring to is it? |
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