Doors Cycling (Read 2,164 times)

:patriotic-flagwaver :god_bless_usa Yes Dude I have heard and caught the last part of the cycle of the doors closing. I was at Griffiss AFB and we had just finished bleeding the Maggie hydraulic package on the back left side and all finished and were headed back to the Hydraulic shop when we passed the second hanger and and heard the doors going through a cycle. we saw no lights and opened the door and the doors were coming closed. Like your experience, no power, no one in the cockpit, I told job control of what we had heard and seen and they told us not to worry about it. After some troubleshooting we discovered it to be the main pneumatic control valve, located up in the aft section of the weapons bay where thew two pneumatic accumulators were located. After we changed it we had no more problems with it. I was a 5 level bubble chaser at that time. :god_bless_usa :

We had a similar incident in 70 or 71 at Loring. We were working a SIX in the ADC hangar one night when another aircraft sitting idle next to us just suddenly cycled the doors. Scared the hell out of us. I have no idea what caused it or the outcome, but it did raise a lot of concerns for all of us.

AJ

Oh Yeah I worked out of the phase docks and we had just towed a bird in for phase, we got it chocked and grounded and were starting to get out tools out to de-panel it when the jet next to us cycled it's doors with NO ONE around. we all just looked at the jet and then looked at one another and decided a break was in order, the smokers needed one and I needed some coffee for my dry mouth! It happed a few more times over the the 3 years I was there.

It's not a "six" story.
It's a "Buff" story.
Griffiss AFB, NY, circa:1974/75

One night while working graveshift we were walking back to to the shop in the center nose dock for something. I just don't remember what we needed or forgot to take out with us.
As we walked along we heard some clicking sounds. We stopped two or three times and listened and looked around, but we did not see anything wrong, out of place, and the clicking sounds stopped.
We started walking again and heard the click sounds again. This time I said keep walking and look for it. We didn't walk to far when we noticed a B-52 tailsection sticking out of a nose dock. As we walked the tailgun was following us.
We looked at eachother and my co-worker said, "That $ome-_itch better be unloaded!"
When we got to the shop I called maintenance job control and reported what we had observed. Never heard anymore about it.


Sorry it was not a "six" story.

F-102 Missile Bay Doors incident:

Pat P.

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From: brugor@me.com
To: Bobski9933@aol.com
Sent: 5/27/2014 12:18:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Check out Safe Ground Operation of the F-102 Armament System - YouTu

We had a Tech Rep killed in Alaska in an F-102 missile bay. It was a very cold day. The crewchief tried to close the doors, but nothing happened. He called the Tech Rep who was nearby. The Tech Rep surmised that an air valve in the missile compartment was frozen. The Tech Rep stepped into the missile bay and struck the valve with the back of a screwdriver. The doors closed instantly, cutting him in half.

Those doors were dangerous!
Bruce

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All,
I never knew this, from Bruce Gordon. I only thought this was an Urban Legend. Thanks Bruce.
Bobski

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From: john@buckleylaw.com
To: Bobski9933@aol.com
Sent: 7/15/2014 10:10:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: F-102 Armament System - Door closure

No different for the F-106 doors. That is why you never got up in there without the door locks in place. I have no knowledge of the Deuce, but I would think it would have had door locks as well. If so...this guy killed himself.

BUCKLEY LAW
"For the things that matter. Sleeping in the storm."
John C. Buckley III, Esq.
1277 Kelly Johnson Blvd., Suite 250
Colorado Springs CO 80920

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From: Don <chevy39sc@aol.com>
Date: July 15, 2014 at 12:17:58 PM EDT
To: "Bobski9933@aol.com" <Bobski9933@aol.com>
Subject: Re: F-102 Armament System - Door closure
RULE ONE, NEVER ENTER THE MISSLE BAY WITHOUT SIX DOOR LOCKS AND TWO LAUNCHER LOCKS. I learned that in July of 1962 from a tech rep.

RULE TWO NEVER FORGET RULE NUMBER ONE!

Don Doty
48th FIS JULY 1962-July 1964
48th FIS Det. 1Richmond, VA July-Sept 1965

Sorry for his loss. Rep's were great guys who trained us on the F-106's. God bless them!

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From: "Richard Schuette" <r.schuette@sbcglobal.net>
Date: July 15, 2014 at 11:55:59 AM EDT
To: <Bobski9933@aol.com>
Subject: RE: F-102 Armament System - Door closure
We had a weapons troop that was troubleshooting an air leak in the missile bay and they had bled all the air off and missed the step that said to initiate the electrical valves to the open position before reapplying air. This was on a B model and when the air built up the doors started to close on him by the coffin rack. it caught him on the top of the head and sliced him open from the top of the skull down to his chin. Peeled the skin and ear off and fortunately the crew chief was there to stop the bleeding or he would have bled to death. He was never the same mentally after that.

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From: clanpotter@aol.com
To: Bobski9933@aol.com
Sent: 7/15/2014 11:39:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: F-102 Armament System - Door closure

I hadn't heard that about the 102, but we had long extensions that could be used to close the 106 bay doors (instead of the switch in the wheel well.) They came around and collected them all and said that an airman had committed suicide by standing in the bay and closing the doors on himself. That was in the '62 - 62 time frame, I believe. (I started on the line in '61 and got out in '64. As I remember, I was in longer after they did away with the remotes than I was before.)
Dell
PS> I never did hear where this was supposed to have happened. It may have been the "gossip" after the 102 incident if that happened in the same time period. It would have been AF logic to take the remotes after an accident.

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