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  • #31
    Originally posted by Bill Bridges View Post
    Never been to Wake
    First time I ever went into Wake was when I was flying as CP on a VC-54D (one of the VIP bitds we had at Offutt AFB at Omaha), been try'n to recall if that was where that shipwreckage was just off-shore?

    best, randy

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Gil Buettner View Post

      used to cross the Big Pond at 9000 eastbound and 10,000 going west
      Yup - chuckle!

      best, randy (a "Buc-buc-buhgwhhhaackkkkk" squawk from the chicken here)

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Tom Charlton View Post
        read and assimilate the teachings of JD
        Thomasina, sure was great to see someone here mention John!

        best, randy

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Terry Carraway View Post
          Just being a devil's advocate, how many of us have had a cruise flight engine failure?
          *raises hand*

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          • #35
            Do tell?

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Terry Carraway View Post
              Do tell?
              I'm pretty sure Steph is referring to her engine out landing at Kingston/Ulster (20N), a nasty little field for that type of activity. She described it on Avsig at the time, and I shake my head whenever I fly over that field.

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              • #37
                Had to shut down an engine about 200 miles out over the Atlantic at night because of a fire warning. We immediately did a 180 and were losing altitude. The other three got us back to Langley where we learned the problem was a defective fire warning system. But we had emptied two bottles of extinguisher into that engine, so it wasn't going to run again for a while.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Gil Buettner View Post
                  Had to shut down an engine about 200 miles out over the Atlantic at night because of a fire warning. We immediately did a 180 and were losing altitude. The other three got us back to Langley where we learned the problem was a defective fire warning system. But we had emptied two bottles of extinguisher into that engine, so it wasn't going to run again for a while.
                  In SE Asia we would get a Fire Warning from time to time in the UH-1s. Normally it was a false alarm caused by the heat from that tropical paradise. We were so jaded that every time we would get a Fire Alarm we'd have the CE lean out and check to see if we were burning.
                  I Earned my Spurs in Vietnam
                  48th AHC 1971-72

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