Warbird Information Exchange

I think this funny!

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/fligh ... s-for.html

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" excuse me stewardess I speak jive"

At least someone was on ball enough so some 'Dudley DoRight' didn't call and whine to the Oak City crowd about 'flying damaged airplanes and endangering innocent lives'.
I recall one Saturday when an AMERICA WEST (remember when 'cactus' WAS cactus?) 737 deadheaded into TRAMCO @ KPAE (how's THAT for a while ago?) from KSEA with an issue. They'd landed @ KSEA and blew out a #3 tire which uncapped itself and threw a huge chunk of tread into the R/H inboard flap aft flap segment breaking it in half. Since we were doing AWA maintenance at the time, the AWA ground guys @ KSEA took a spare piece of cabin floorboard, cut it down for width and taped it to the bottom side of the busted flap segment with 500 MPH tape (LOTS OF IT!!) and ferried it to us (about 20 minutes with everything down and in the breeze). We pulled the corresponding part from one of their 737's that was within a few days of completing a 'D' check and did the swap in a couple of hours, and sent the bad part off to our composites repair dept.. I thrived in participating on stuff like that!!!

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

MX should've put the note on the bottom of the flap. Good on them for letting everyone know it was reported and cleared for flight. Bad on them for not thinking about the fishbowl (something I got reminded about multiple times when working at Denver International by both the training staff at Air Wisconsin, ASIG, and other airlines). It's something that we all have to remember on the ramp because the pax see everything and most times take whatever is going on the wrong/worst way.

The other day i had a F/A call up and said that a passenger saw something like a door hanging open right before taxi. thinking that the ground crew might have left the PCA door open I sent the F/O back to take a look at what the passenger saw. he came back laughing, It was the landing gear door. they do see it all, even if they have no idea what they are looking at.

bob burns

You say that, but I had to rush through about 8 channels of contacts to get ahold of an Air Wisconsin CRJ when I was working with ASIG to report that someone had left open the Lav servicing door. The worst part - the plane was almost to the end of the terminal taxiing out for departure. We all figured it wouldn't have been a major issue had they flown without securing it (the door is hinged at the front so it would have closed by the airflow) but still...

25 years ago I was @ Yakima WA. for their now long gone airshow as a spectator. The airport was still operating commercial flights in and out during breaks in performers, and a HORIZON lawn dart METROLINER taxis out with the forward bag bin door wide open, flapping up and down in the breeze. I was standing next to an airshow official who had a 2 way radio, I alerted him, he looked with a 'yeah, SURE' look on his face until he too saw the door bobbing up and down as the airplane taxied, he got on the radio and an airport safety vehicle dashed down the runway to close the door.

A former co worker used to drive P-3's out of Callander NAS on weekends and he said they were always getting calls while driving to the runway from towers not used to working a P-3 about 'an open door on the right side of the nose" (APU inlet) so they started carrying a 4 foot long piece of bright orange 3 inch diameter polypropylene rope that the co-pilot would pull up on visible through the right side cockpit window as the FE bagged the APU which closed the door.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

lmfao!!!!