C-141s on Diego Garcia, 1988

full house out on the ramp those are offices one two three 141s and the dc-8 from the East Coast as usual with busy busy weekend for us Easter Sunday morning air evacs getting ready to go out there is c30 doing touch and goes this morning yeah it looks like a thousand feet to me who let's the airplane just took off he had to come back in he's got a piece of improperly prepared hazardous cargo an engine can that's been drained inferred but not pumped with nitrogen could implode if he would have a rapid decompression it out to be pretty day is coming back in will take it off and get it back out of here meanwhile the upload goes okay on this one having to use 25k loader they burned up a 40k loader engine the oil pump failed there's a dollar rider walking around a scanner and here it is the 374th tech for Airlift Wing commander is hit Morris and here's kid right here that's my house is where I live this is where yeah it's my truck yeah this is my hangar like I just got done flying a local at p3 that's engines are winding down over there that's the North ramp this is the Mac ramp about 45 minutes later the other guys soon as they get that powered off and get refueled they'll go again the one that had to come back it'll go out tonight about nine of to be sex we were just talking to inside I got to get the copilot in secret you need some earplugs or some in the real demanding life by c-141 go to party here go the bread club huh all this what you can have flight engineer stationed over here controls the electric hydraulics fuel pressurization air-conditioning all the pilots really do is kind of you know you feel like this airplane goes up like this now that's all you do you take a picture of this for Dave aging navigators there's a navigator station we no longer have a navigator of course this box right here replaced the navigator this is what replaced Dave and Jen what you currently work for Space Command you don't have the radar on my helmet and displays all your course information put out the food you should apply to whatever you should be applying when she's you're indicated airspeed and knots the heading and right off the nose of the airplane your present position get on out Tennyson exposition you're blind to in this case that's the point faulty way which is about 150 miles to the northeast here at the way back before starting on that you get a certain color bands and that that shows you what correctly indicated correctly indicated after takeoff oh yes center console copilot's console while its instruments engine instruments whatnot pilots console Tyler typical one each the SS oh yeah dave is one of the guys by the way that we can blame for designing this F SAS your responses watch this this is my favorite part of the F sets ladies and gentlemen start the time right now F says switching to AI NS one okay ten seconds to switch to the other three and five see how they're doing it here I think the crew went to get something to eat support with journal this is always a lot of fun to use especially when they're right there and everybody can look right down the side their cockpit and see oh yeah just how long your dick really is this airplane is rigged up as a medevac he's got a comfort letter several letters actually can hang actually four letters from one of these sets of straps they just have a comforter because all they have is one person going up how many people are going out twenty-six on this airplane it had 17,000 pounds of cargo till they bumped that inch about 6,000 pounds it's enter regulation regulation has now they put G on their workplace is that how you've let people know that we're one engineer that's nice I'm absolutely with him this he takes our purpose they looked at me I'm not sleeping with you yes you were don't pull my that my way we can do it again you'll have to I love it when everybody stands there staring at the inside of an engine here we have a major major you

Channel: Ted Morris

Views: 11,535

Rating: 4.8125 out of 5

Keywords: USAF, C-141, Diego Garcia, Air Force, 4th MAS, 4MAS, McChord AFB, Fly-by

Id: eSpAsKZSmiA

Length: 12min 9sec (729 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 09 2011