Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
10-02-2013, 07:42 AM
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I was flying with Bill once and this FA comes up to the cockpit to mention she is jumpseating. Bill says to her "spin around" so he can give her the once over...only hanky Panke could get away with that stuff.
He was telling me this story of how he set up this water balloon launcher on his deck, but he used it to launch potatoes at his neighbors house.
Nobody could keep you laughing harder and longer than him on a transcon.
He was telling me this story of how he set up this water balloon launcher on his deck, but he used it to launch potatoes at his neighbors house.
Nobody could keep you laughing harder and longer than him on a transcon.
He drove a truck that you needed a ladder to get in. It had the biggest street legal tires you could have on it.Denny
10-02-2013, 07:49 AM
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Your airline must not have upgraded to the bucket of PepBoys Anti Freeze and a Mop deicing system. I'd always worry the old man would fall off the wing, of course the tail was another story. Somehow doing the wing always took so long that the tail melted before the wing was done, even if it took until Spring. By then the APU had already blown up and dumped oil on the ramp, so you'd enjoy your 16 hours in the break room of a podunk airport with a TV that had sketchy reception on one channel. This was all before the internets.
Crew scheduling "rest? you've been resting at the airport!"
10-02-2013, 07:51 AM
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That guy new every joke in the book and then some! I went thru training on the 75/76 with him. Both of us had been on it before........Thank goodness for me 'cause we had a lotta fun!! He drove a truck that you needed a ladder to get in. It had the biggest street legal tires you could have on it.
Denny
He drove a truck that you needed a ladder to get in. It had the biggest street legal tires you could have on it.Denny
Well, time to go wash the bugs off the airplane ... thanks for the stories
P.S. Ever wonder why management sets up flow/preferred hiring/buddy network with some of what outsiders might think are the worst regional/express/fly-by-night outfits? I think it is because Delta is heaven with ice cream, beer and dancing girls compared to where these folks came from. It's easy to appreciate Delta when you've been some of these other places at 2am.
10-02-2013, 08:01 AM
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I started to write PANKE on all the logbook pages ... Captain had no idea what, or why, that would amuse me ... how soon they forget.
Well, time to go wash the bugs off the airplane ... thanks for the stories
P.S. Ever wonder why management sets up flow/preferred hiring/buddy network with some of what outsiders might think are the worst regional/express/fly-by-night outfits? I think it is because Delta is heaven with ice cream, beer and dancing girls compared to where these folks came from. It's easy to appreciate Delta when you've been some of these other places at 2am.
Well, time to go wash the bugs off the airplane ... thanks for the stories
P.S. Ever wonder why management sets up flow/preferred hiring/buddy network with some of what outsiders might think are the worst regional/express/fly-by-night outfits? I think it is because Delta is heaven with ice cream, beer and dancing girls compared to where these folks came from. It's easy to appreciate Delta when you've been some of these other places at 2am.
THE most fun I've ever had at a training event at Delta! But like I said, thank the Lawd that I had been on it before! Otherwise I might have been in a world of hurt!As far as his name in the book, I asked him about that. In the dark ages, when we had an "Engine Log Report" book, as a new FE, he made the mistake of putting the foldover page right behind the carbon paper so his name ended up on it. The rest is history!! I swear his name ended up in every book out there! According to him, he only did it once. Well, once was enough!! He was one of those "bigger than life" characters.
Denny
10-02-2013, 08:41 AM
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We were pretty sure he would never make it thru probation up at ORD.
10-02-2013, 10:56 AM
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Anybody ever find out who the airline was that AAR had the contract with to do interior conversions on 757-200? Nothing but crickets after is was bounced around on here for a day or so....
10-02-2013, 12:46 PM
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Maybe, but not as interesting as some of the stories have tried to make it. One story I read tried to make it sound like the end of manned fighters was just around the corner because of this "new" development, when in reality the only thing new is that it's an F-16. It's just rigged to be flown remotely so it can be a target for manned fighters to shoot down. They've been doing the same thing for many years with old F-4's, 100's, 106's etc...no big deal.
10-02-2013, 02:10 PM
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nwaf16dude,
Semi-funny story about drone F-100s. I started on Huns, finished on C-5s, long story. Anyway, I'm deploying the PDX Reserve Rescue unit to Italy during one of the Kosovo wars. In the PDX ANG base ops has a trophy case of F-100 models, I vaguely remember a tail number and remark out loud, "I didn't know PDX flew Huns, thought they were Voodoos, eventually Eagles". Unit pilot at counter dryly says, " we weren't, Colonel, those are the ones we shot down!"
GF
Semi-funny story about drone F-100s. I started on Huns, finished on C-5s, long story. Anyway, I'm deploying the PDX Reserve Rescue unit to Italy during one of the Kosovo wars. In the PDX ANG base ops has a trophy case of F-100 models, I vaguely remember a tail number and remark out loud, "I didn't know PDX flew Huns, thought they were Voodoos, eventually Eagles". Unit pilot at counter dryly says, " we weren't, Colonel, those are the ones we shot down!"
GF
10-02-2013, 03:04 PM
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You reminded me... we had 3 different electrical systems, so the takeoff mins charts always needed to be figured with the correct AC number. On the first system, if you lost a generator, you lost all instruments and needed to immediately disconnect the bus tie and switch to a standby system. On the second, you only lost the instruments on the side of the failure (theoretically). On the third, it was fully automatic (theoretically). Got to love those Brits and their dry sense of humor! Jolly good show, Old Boy!! Other factors: Water Meth or APR? How worn out were the engines? (answer: totally.) Were you going with the "clean aircraft concept" or sticking with the "It'll blow off" school of thought? (Important caveat: Do I have elevator horn heat on this one?) And the ever popular, "Do I feel lucky?"
Fortunately (with a few notable exceptions), no lavs aboard.
Fortunately (with a few notable exceptions), no lavs aboard.
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