Strangest cargo carried?
 

What's the strangest or most interesting type of cargo you've carried?

Sheryl Crowe's band equipment in an MD11 HNL to OAK.

A pair of Beluga whales (to Sea World).

Elton John's piano, flying CGN-EWR in a 747.

Carried 275 baby Alpaca from La Paz Bolivia to Navy Key West, Stock Island on a 757.

A dead body in a body bag in a Cherokee 6 on a dark and stormy night.

Yikes!

my favorite load was bunch of porcupines.

$85 Million in US dollars. 1,5,10,20,50,100 denomination to Quito, Ecuador when the country was switching their currency to US dollar. 4 pallets of cash. Cleared for the approach and to land 150 miles out, which for Quito is another miracle. Can't remember what the weight was, but I think it was 33 pounds per $100K.

That was the closest thing to a lump sum I will ever see. :(

Deadly Cargo
 

Flew a KC-10 (DC-10-30) half full with Feminine Napkins during Desert Storm. My biggest fear was ditching in the Atlantic and turning into a floating tissue box. Other half was bomb fins. What an irony.

Oh the agony of war.

300 kilos of gold bouillon....Yes. We thought about it. We were a crew of 3, my FO and a super hot Flt. Attn. Yeah, we thought about it. I just could not think of a good way to get rid of the FO!