Posted on 02/06/2005 12:47:05 PM PST by shaggy eel
~ I learned to bring a parka and wear shoes with heavily-insulated soles so I didn't freeze to death while waiting for my fabulous box lunch. ~
LOL, we called them "box-nasties". I learned an important lesson on a C-141 halfway across the Atlantic: always check the date on a carton of milk. Halfway through my sandwich and took a big swig of chocolate milk that was curdled. Not fun!
,,, ditto! I forgot to say.
,,, I'd love to take a ride on a Starlifter. The only time I've been on a military plane was when I was 15, on an old C-47 that had side slat seating. It flew from Ohakea air base in New Zealand's lower North Island, off the coast of New Plymouth. We did some banks and quick descents. That was fun, but I'm sure a C-141 would be great.
Those are the best kind! :)
I would have probably thought so too if it hadn't been such a long trip and I was so unused to flying that I spent most of the trip being a basket-case. I was such a weenie back then! Now I would probably fly around the world in it!...and I'll never have the chance! *sigh*
Oh-wow! Beautiful plane!
I had the pleasure of a tour thru the plane before she left & watcheded as a band set up it's instruments for photo's with the crew, the guys on this plane were great & we'll miss them now they aren't coming back.
BUMP
It's fake. But truth is often stranger than fiction. It is true that more than a few Starlifter pilots dragged the tail on their first flights of the new stretch model. Took a little "recalibration" to remember that they needed to take-off and land with a little less angle of attack.
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