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Post by Mark O on Dec 28, 2005 12:52:37 GMT 9
Another reason Grand Forks is getting to me. First day back at work after Christmas today and I was swapping some boom ruddevators to another jet. While I was trying to hook a B-5 stand up to the truck I slipped on the ice, fell on the stand's tow bar and broke a rib! Damn, double-damn! #11 rib on the left side. Looks like I'm going to be the paperwork gopher for awhile.
Anyway, anyone else pull any similiar stunt when you were on the line? I can't be the only crew chief with two left feet! (Well, today I was!)
Mark
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Post by Jim on Dec 28, 2005 14:16:33 GMT 9
Anyway, anyone else pull any similiar stunt when you were on the line? I can't be the only crew chief with two left feet! (Well, today I was!) Mark GUESS YE BE ALONE ON THIS ONE, MARK ME LAD------We all learned to do an IRISH jig on the ice an were taught to be avoidin work involvin things what be painted yellow (in the old days before olive drab became stylish) Naow, I be a tellin ye that the broken rib will, in no way, impede ye ability to be a tiltin the mug or the bottle an ye be well advised to wait til ye rib be mended afore ye try learnin the jig......On the serious side me lad, take advantage of the light duty, get mended fast, and be we a hearing from ye more often......... ::)fer meself, an ::)fer yeself The Old Sarge ::)these 2 must be real pals!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by darttender on Jun 5, 2006 3:10:25 GMT 9
Another reason Grand Forks is getting to me. First day back at work after Christmas today and I was swapping some boom ruddevators to another jet. While I was trying to hook a B-5 stand up to the truck I slipped on the ice, fell on the stand's tow bar and broke a rib! Damn, double-damn! #11 rib on the left side. Looks like I'm going to be the paperwork gopher for awhile. Anyway, anyone else pull any similiar stunt when you were on the line? I can't be the only crew chief with two left feet! (Well, today I was!) Mark I broke my nose on the ramp at The Griff. I was trying to get a GOX cart hooked up to the dispatch truck. I was wearing those big, white bunny boots (there's another story about these...). Well, I pushed the cart this-a-way, , my big boots shot back that-a-way , and I smacked my face on the ring of the tow bar. Gave me a mild concussion, too. I couldn't make any sense out of stuff I was trying to read later that evening - well, that was because I was only focussing on every second or third line! I got up, climbed back onto the truck and told the driver, "Ged you owd goddam GOX boddooz!", and headed back to the Sheep Shed. I was never gladder that I was on the swing shift. After all RACCOONS like to operate after dark! With my two shiners, I fit that description right well for the two weeks after that
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Post by Cougar on Jan 17, 2007 6:05:59 GMT 9
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Post by Bullhunter on Jan 17, 2007 17:21:58 GMT 9
Dropped the heavy tonge of a 4100 engine removal/installation trailer on my foot. Sure was glad I had on steel toed boots. Took the clinic at Norton AFB a while to get the boot off as it caved in against my toes. Only injury was a cracked toe. Yep, my pride also, as I had to give a safety talk at roll call about how not to drop things on your feet. :lol:
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Post by MOW on Jan 17, 2007 18:03:53 GMT 9
Fell off the top of a C-141A T-Tail (0088) while working the flight line at Travis AFB. Had the harness on of course, but that thing is meant to keep you from hitting the ground ONLY! In fact its design was to let you fall and then give just enough to stop you about 3 feet from the ground, give or take. It worked, although my groin, balls, back and shoulders hurt for awhile, and the docs came to believe that it was the initiating cause of my neck problems in the mid 90's. Disks between c5 and c6, and c6 and c7 burst in 97... helped with my disability % though.
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Post by pat perry on Jan 18, 2007 1:49:05 GMT 9
I'm told that a troop in the 456th FIS at Castle was badly maimed or killed when he was leaning over the cockpit ledge and somehow activated the ejection seat while the bird was in the main hangar. The seat hit one of the ceiling beams and I believe the troop was thrown up and onto the left wing. I heard this as a newbie and you know how "war stories" can get embellished especially when the older guys are trying to "put the fear" in newbies about being safe around the aircraft. I know it always made me check for safety pins on everything I touched. I don't know if this is true but it might have happened when Cougar was there in the early '60s and he might know about it. What say you Cougar? Pat Perry 456th FIS '66-'68
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Post by Cougar on Jan 18, 2007 8:35:36 GMT 9
I'm told that a troop in the 456th FIS at Castle was badly maimed or killed when he was leaning over the cockpit ledge and somehow activated the ejection seat while the bird was in the main hangar. The seat hit one of the ceiling beams and I believe the troop was thrown up and onto the left wing. What say you Cougar? Pat Perry 456th FIS '66-'68 Pat, the veteran airman was straddling the canopy rail while removing a "B" seat,and dropped a wrench which somehow wedged and activated the rocket; the blast sending him flying like a rag doll. He landed on the left side of center fuselage before coming to rest on the wing. The blast shredded his shirt, blew his pants and skivies off,except for his belt, and it blew off one shoe. He also lost a crown jewel. They medi-vac'd him to the AF burn center in Texas, where he eventually recovered. The seat never left the aircraft, but rather the rocket drove it down into the cockpit floor area where it did some damage.
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Post by lindel on Jan 9, 2008 8:24:57 GMT 9
I did have our NCOIC ask me one time what I thought about an article in a maintenance magazine concerning the loss of fingers (I was constantly wearing wire rim glasses in the Mock Up). Every incident in the article invovled stake bed trucks, and I didn't like him much (he was a hard core chief from SAC) so my reply was the cause of finger losses was stake bed trucks.
Up until then, I'd never seen anyone turn purple before.
And then there's all the practical jokes that go with being in the Mock Up...
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Post by sixerviper on Jan 14, 2008 2:09:50 GMT 9
I slipped on the ice in Richmond one day with an F-105 EPR transducer (same one as in the Six) in my hand. I went one way, the transducer flew the other way, and it hit the ground. It was the only serviceable one in existance that day, and that jet sat for a week while we got another one in. Then there was the time, I slipped off the snowy wing of a Six at Minot, bounced off the external tank, and landed on the ground--fortunately unhurt. Then there was the time we were mobilizing for an ORI and I was helping load a C-141 and I rolled a 10,000 # cargo pallet over my toes. Couldn't figure out why it wouldn't roll when I pulled it toward me. When I went to investigate, my foot wouldn't move! Thank God for steel-toed shoes!
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