Mefesto said:Multiple Ejection Rack.
It's a 129 legend. I don't know all the specifics, but apparently one night Meat (a RAG IECMO at the time), while no doubt trying to get some shut-eye, decided that the guys were flying their pattern a little too wide, so he calls the base CO to report a noise complaint. I guess he couldn't remember his own squadron's ODO number. So the story goes. I'm sure he'll log on presently to protest his innocence.
Brett
At least he wasn't in the front seat when we went zooming over the Gorge during a RAG 1350 flight, ridge crossing of course, around lunchtime on a summer Thursday. Zorba was the IECMO with a CAT I pilot and I was in the back with a Middie. When I asked them to dip the wing over the grounds for the middie I noticed there was a an awful lot of people at the Gorge, like thousands. We happened to buzz a Christian concert at about 500ft (or a little less.....).
When we got back the middie was saying how excited he was and what a great time he had flying over the Gorge. When a OPS O, a MAJ, overheard that he growled "Yeah, we know all about that", I thought discretion was the better part of valor and dragged the middie out of there. Apparently we generated quite a few noise complaints that day......![]()
Kind of odd that a place that is blaring music at >140 db would see fit to call in a noise complaint.
Brett
It was a Christian concert.......![]()
Yeah...especially since they're Republicans...come on now!One would think the penitent bastards would be of the patriotic flavor.
September 1990 I was working at a small airport in Western Pennsylvania. The 911th Reserve C-130 squadron was using our airport's ILS for practice approaches to get ready for deployment. I was sitting outside watching the show, when the phone started ringing off the hook with complaints. One woman said that "there must be some kind of ordinance about this". I replied without thinking "Those are cargo planes, they don't carry any ordinance". I finally looked up the 911's Duty Office phone number and started giving it to the callers. If they got that worked up over C-130's, I'd love to arrange for a C-5 to make an approach. That would be worth the price of admission.
A Prowler would be better, loudest jet in the Navy.....![]()
The mighty P&W J52-P408A engine:
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A Prowler would be better, loudest jet in the Navy.....![]()
The mighty P&W J52-P408A engine:
I finally looked up the 911's Duty Office phone number and started giving it to the callers. If they got that worked up over C-130's, I'd love to arrange for a C-5 to make an approach. That would be worth the price of admission.