Posted on 10/24/2018 4:01:56 PM PDT by Gamecock
She knows...
Sergeant, was the rabbit supposed to go aroung the tree or through the hole first?
One of our crews had this happen with a training load, which was just a bunch of plywood on a 463L pallet. For whatever reason, the load exited during the final run in. The primary load called "Load clear". The pilot told him this was not a funny joke. That's when he told the pilot the load really did exit the aircraft. Luckily, it landed in Cook Inlet, so no danger to anyone on the ground. But there was no way to recover it. It didn't affect his promotion either.
Nah. This has never happened before.
Hey! They landed in the right country.
The right state.
The right county in the right state in the right country.
/D-Day paratroop drops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DopZgJaWstk
Of 100 parachute cargo drops, how many cargoes could be used?
(Might crack or land upside down like in the videos, but could still be used.)
>>”A load of some kind was released early and we’re looking into how it happened,”
LUNCH?!!!
I thought you said LAUNCH!
Those “MILITARY INADVERTENTLY PLANE”s must be somethin’ else. Haven’t heard of those before.
could’ve been worse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bomb-north-carolina-1961
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina – secret document
Exclusive: Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe
The document, obtained by the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gives the first conclusive evidence that the US was narrowly spared a disaster of monumental proportions when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961. The bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage.
Each bomb carried a payload of 4 megatons – the equivalent of 4 million tons of TNT explosive. Had the device detonated, lethal fallout could have been deposited over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and as far north as New York city – putting millions of lives at risk.
the Reds at the guardian act as it if was a groundbreaking news item in 2013 but I’d heard about the incident at least a decade earlier if not before that
if this had happened in Chicago, the humvee would’ve been recovered, maybe in zebra or something exotic
Lucky stiff!
Wish they would drop a Hum Vee into my yard
Up there in Harnett County, this is how they deliver the really good moonshine.
Apparently they need lots more practice before deployment.
You drop a Humvee in my back yard, and it’s mine.
Although the slightly larger GAZ Tigr might be a better choice.
They dropped one on Savannah, too.
And, of course, during the height of the Civil Rights resistance, LBJ detonated a nuke in Mississippi as a warning for the southerners to back off and take it. That was a couple of years after airborne units barely won the Battle of Oxford after the Engineering Combat Battalion and the MPs under two Generals were forced to retreat. (Footnote of history - Bobby Kennedy was forced to re-segregate certain military units used against the Southerners.)
Lands on my property...It’s mine!
One of their best!
Schlosser is an anti-nuke pimp. His book, "Command and Control" was a very slanted piece of work. He is a good writer and if you don't stand back and really read his writing you can get caught up in his slant and hyperbole.
The document described was in the public domain prior to Schlosser getting his copy and his description of the effects is beyond exaggeration. Also, the weapons were designed so as not to be able to detonate unless required and all the safety features worked. The weapons were not in the proper configuration for detonation and would not have yielded a thermonuclear reaction.
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