Craziest thing you've carried aboard your cargo a/c?
10-18-2007, 10:05 PM
#11
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Well my Herc days were before the HOT pilots were allowed....LOL. We did blow up a family size lasagna in the oven on a flight once... it blew the door open and got hot cheese all over some army major sitting at the bottom of the steps by the crew door.... that dude was ****ed.
glad to here my Herc brothers .....and sisters... took good care of ya!!!!
glad to here my Herc brothers .....and sisters... took good care of ya!!!!
10-22-2007, 05:31 PM
#12
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Originally Posted by Riddler
Couple of turkish shotguns, some turkish carpets, and even some furniture.
Mountain bike for me..
10-22-2007, 06:23 PM
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How about 50,000 ecstasy pills from Germany...oh wait, that wasn't my Guard unit...me, personally, close to $1000 worth of cubans for a bachelor party...I once had a plane with over $15000 worth of rugs and one over $5000 worth of wines on it but it wasn't my stuff, it was the other pilots...I caught a 350# blue marlin in Acapulco and was thinking about how to get it home but the thinking didn't go very far.
10-22-2007, 08:31 PM
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I, myself have only done the basics, cubans, wines, ect., but friends over in the hercs in black ops, they get away with murder. They have hauled everything you can imagine. Great bunch of guys. If you ever need anything, just ask one.
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10-23-2007, 09:06 AM
#18
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A pickup truck full of King Crab legs stuffed into the wing root, boom pod, and the hell hole below the flight deck of a KC-135 tanker. I think the total value came to $2500 and this was back in '96. I brought it back for my friends in Okinawa. I didn't make a cent, but they certainly owed me a lot of favors!
10-23-2007, 09:21 AM
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A number of years ago we used two A-10's as cargo aircraft, having flown from Connecticut up to Maine, to bring back some lobsters. The lobsters were put in cardboard cartons and stuck behind the seat, in the cockpit, which was the only pressurized compartment on the jet. All went well, until at 27,000 feet, my wingman almost went berserk when two lobsters got out of the carton and started their assault on his shoulders. Formation flying was a thing of the past during this episode, and I was thankful that he didn't declare an in flight emergency, as we'd have had a heck of a time explaining it to the wing commander. But hey, we were the toast of the party later that night.
10-23-2007, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Jetjok
A number of years ago we used two A-10's as cargo aircraft, having flown from Connecticut up to Maine, to bring back some lobsters. The lobsters were put in cardboard cartons and stuck behind the seat, in the cockpit, which was the only pressurized compartment on the jet. All went well, until at 27,000 feet, my wingman almost went berserk when two lobsters got out of the carton and started their assault on his shoulders. Formation flying was a thing of the past during this episode, and I was thankful that he didn't declare an in flight emergency, as we'd have had a heck of a time explaining it to the wing commander. But hey, we were the toast of the party later that night.
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