View Full Version : Always Make Sure the Bolts Are Tight
Lil' Irish Temper
April 25th, 2005, 07:35 PM
Propellers going through a fuselage is caused by:
(A) Airman getting out of the service, and getting back at someone
(B) Pilots throwing the full speed engines into reverse "just to see what happens"
(C) Cross threading the bolts, and saying "some threads are better then none"
(D) None of the above
neophytediver
April 25th, 2005, 07:40 PM
Is it any wonder? It's a UAEAF C-130.
2Tours N Iraq`
April 26th, 2005, 12:02 AM
I noticed on my most recent flight on a C-130 there are markings on the inside of the cargo hold to indicate where a propeller will go through the fuselage. Apparently this is a big enough problem to warrant letting the unlucky SOBs who are sitting in that area (as I was) that in the event of the prop flying off that you were as good as dead. Not entirely comforting.
Firebrand
April 26th, 2005, 09:59 AM
I saw that movie! Wasn't it "Flight of the Phoenix" with Dennis Quaid?
Squalus
April 26th, 2005, 03:01 PM
And you wonder why I jump out of air force planes????? :11:
Reminds me of a trip I was on a C5 Galaxy, we sat on the airstrip for an hour. Nobody said a word, the flight crew was tight lipped about it (would not answer a single question). We get to Savannah, Ga and finally the load master tells me and another guy, "Sorry it took so long to get here, we had a hydraulic leak in the right wing and had to get permission to fly a broken aircraft". Makes you think; "What are they doing out there?"
O2BBubbleFree
April 26th, 2005, 03:11 PM
I saw that movie! Wasn't it "Flight of the Phoenix" with Dennis Quaid?
Haven't seen "Flight of the Phoenix," but I know it happened in "Con Air."
2Tours N Iraq`
April 27th, 2005, 12:01 AM
When people ask why I jump out of "perfectly good airplanes" I respond by saying, "I have never jumped from a perfectly good airplane, they ALWAYS have something wrong with them at any given time." When I was in Germany for CTLT (gotta love those cadet years) I was with an Army Avation unit and we "fixed" a fuel leak from the bottom of the aircraft by draining some of the fuel out. I'm not an expert but that DOESN'T strike me as the way to fix a fuel leak! Of course, the military being what it is, I had to fly in that aircraft 10 minutes later.
