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Gloves

Alpha_Echo_606

Alpha_Echo_606

Does not play well with others!™
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PhrogLoop said:
If anyone can find a working link to a 2002 Approach article called "Stuck on a Shock Absorber" you'll see a closeup of me flipping off the camera and the reason why I wear gloves preflight to postflight. Basically, I got fishooked right through my middle fingertip by a piece of braided safety wire while preflighting a Phrog. Didn't really hurt until the corpsman yanked it out with a pair of needle nose pliers.
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And that is why I wear gloves at work 99% of the time. I've had quite a few close calls with safety wire and cotter pins; both will rip you open in a heartbeat.
 
HeyJoe

HeyJoe

Fly Navy! ...or USMC
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Using the alternative prefight option to keep potential fluids from impregnating the flight gloves

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100805-N-6106P-001 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 5, 2010) Lt. Rocky Argobright, an instructor pilot assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120, completes his walk-around inspection before conducting a carrier field landing practice mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Clark Pierce/Released)
 
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