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Post by dude on May 15, 2009 8:41:49 GMT 9
I remember hearing a story about a Six intercepting a Russian Bear over the Pacific and opening his bay doors only to have a load of salmon fall out. He was ferrying the fish back from Det in Alaska when they diverted him enroute to make the intercept. I guess in the heat of the moment he forgot what his load was. As the story goes, a few days later Pravda had an article talking about Americans exposing a new secret weapon. Can anyone verify?
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Post by Bullhunter on May 15, 2009 12:47:53 GMT 9
Now that is funny. :fire_missle_ani
I sure hope it is true.
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Post by falconkeeper on Jun 17, 2009 5:28:33 GMT 9
I had heard it as a Six making a fake attack run on a Russian trawler and had a big salmon tied to the rack. The pilot hit the trigger and the salmon fell out when the doors opened. That happened while I was at Minot ('75-'80).
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Post by lugnuts55 on Jun 19, 2009 21:38:56 GMT 9
I don't know about salmon, but a pilot came around to us crewchiefs and asked if we would like to buy some fresh shrimp to take back to Minot. Everybody would pay and they would bring the shrimp back in the weapons bay of a 106. It was no problem filling the order since we all bought 5-10 pounds.
The only problem was after they loaded the luggage rack into the belly and started the engine, there was a problem and they had to abort. I don't remember what the problem was but they immediately brought an airconditioner unit to the broken bird to keep the shrimp refrigerated. We were scheduled to return a couple days later and while we were still there, we all kept an eye on that refer unit to make sure it was still running. We got back to Minot before that airplane did but the shrimp was delicious. I had relatives living in Minot so I had a place to put my share. Yes, people did actually live there.
I think the tail number of the plane was 56-0461. That was one of the older ones we had.
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Post by dude on Jun 20, 2009 11:23:04 GMT 9
I had heard it as a Six making a fake attack run on a Russian trawler and had a big salmon tied to the rack. The pilot hit the trigger and the salmon fell out when the doors opened. That happened while I was at Minot ('75-'80). Maybe. I mean how many Sixes could have been out there flying around with a load of salmon? This probably goes down with all the Bermuda Triangle stories. Did you hear about the Six pilot that flew over the Bermuda Triangle? All of a sudden his MA-1 started working.
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Post by jimpadgett on Jun 22, 2009 10:41:48 GMT 9
Well... if we had run an intercept while returning from Tyndall to McChord with a bushel of oysters in a gunny sack in the bay we could have created a similar intercept scenario over lets say Kansas. Then I wouldn't have had to carry the damn smelly things to the Ops building in payment for the ride.
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Post by dude on Jun 22, 2009 11:52:41 GMT 9
Well... if we had run an intercept while returning from Tyndall to McChord with a bushel of oysters in a gunny sack in the bay we could have created a similar intercept scenario over lets say Kansas. Then I wouldn't have had to carry the damn smelly things to the Ops building in payment for the ride. Makes you wonder what other little tidbits found their way into the weapons bay going cross country.
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Jun 23, 2009 1:45:04 GMT 9
We had a six come back from the Bahama's with several bottles of quality spirits in about '66. The pilot taped them to the electronic racks to avoid customs inspection when he unloaded the removable luggage compartment in the missle bay. Unfortunately, one of the bottles taped to the top of the computer rack broke and the entire rack had to be removed along with its component boxes to be dried and cleaned. Being a computer mock-up weenie (and low man on the totem pole) I got the job of cleaning up everything. At least I didn't have to remove and re-install all of that mess.
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Post by oswald on Aug 18, 2009 3:40:02 GMT 9
I wish my memory wasn't so bad about what the dates were but I remember when either the318th birds or the 71st birds were coming back to the states, there were some pilots that tied up some Hondas in the armament bays that were actually put together right at Osan by an airman who ordered them from Japan.
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Post by jimpadgett on Aug 18, 2009 11:10:51 GMT 9
On a deployment to Dickie Goober from Duluth the MA-1 types shipped a motorcycle to Dickie Goober in a crate that was supposed to be black boxes. The deployment was for 11th FIS to fly-off against 5th FIS for the last spot open for William Tell. Named operation Sneaky Pete if I remember correctly.
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