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Take off traditions
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.......hence the reason for the caution about not yanking too hard on the piss tube 
When I graduated HMT-303 to become a Huey/Cobra line mech, me and some buds had OJT over at 367.
While me and another guy were doing a Cobra tranny pull, two of our other buddies were out on the line launching and recovering and so forth.
Anyway, one of the "salty" mechs tells one of our guys (who happened to be a little slow) that they needed to check the "Emergency CRS Radio" (also known as the relief tube
) Supposedly, this Emergency Radio is used when the Aircraft crashes on it's side, to talk to the pilot. Haha.
So one of the mechs hops up into the cockpit, and my buddy crawls underneath the Cobra and they tell him to talk into it.
"Hello? Hello? Check check"
"Nope...we can't hear anything"
"CHECK CHECK"
"No, nothing. Try blowing into it, it must be blocked.
"PFFFFFFFFTTTTT -- Check Check!"
"No, nothing...get your mouth closer to it"
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LOL - Good times on the flightline.
BTW, I can't recall mechs ever pranking the pilots, but we messed with each other a lot.
One time during a DNT "someone" flipped the switch on the HH-1N from TACAN to VOR. Then that "someone" walked into the avi shop and told them the TACAN wasn't picking up at all.
2 or 3 hours later he walks out to the flightline, cool as a cucumber, sees 3 or 4 AVI bubbas huddled around the TACAN with the whole cabin covered in schematics. (One guy saying "Ok...I guess we need to R&R it), plops down in the cockpit, yells "CLEAR - POWER ON," flips the switch and says "Fixed it."
While me and another guy were doing a Cobra tranny pull, two of our other buddies were out on the line launching and recovering and so forth.
Anyway, one of the "salty" mechs tells one of our guys (who happened to be a little slow) that they needed to check the "Emergency CRS Radio" (also known as the relief tube
) Supposedly, this Emergency Radio is used when the Aircraft crashes on it's side, to talk to the pilot. Haha.So one of the mechs hops up into the cockpit, and my buddy crawls underneath the Cobra and they tell him to talk into it.
"Hello? Hello? Check check"
"Nope...we can't hear anything"
"CHECK CHECK"
"No, nothing. Try blowing into it, it must be blocked.
"PFFFFFFFFTTTTT -- Check Check!"
"No, nothing...get your mouth closer to it"
...
LOL - Good times on the flightline.
BTW, I can't recall mechs ever pranking the pilots, but we messed with each other a lot.
One time during a DNT "someone" flipped the switch on the HH-1N from TACAN to VOR. Then that "someone" walked into the avi shop and told them the TACAN wasn't picking up at all.
2 or 3 hours later he walks out to the flightline, cool as a cucumber, sees 3 or 4 AVI bubbas huddled around the TACAN with the whole cabin covered in schematics. (One guy saying "Ok...I guess we need to R&R it), plops down in the cockpit, yells "CLEAR - POWER ON," flips the switch and says "Fixed it."
ControlledBurn
ERAU Student
HueyCobra8151 said:
When were you wat HMT-303 out of curiosity? /hijack
Was there from Oct 2001 until late Feb 2002
UncleFester
Hummer NFO To Be Reckoned With
Heard a tale of a Cobra guy who got callsigned "Sample" after trying to figure out the composition of a puddle he found next to the helo during a night preflight. The puddle having been left by the aircraft commander minutes before, having failed to do a pregame piss and deciding to do it by the plane. The HAC watched the nugget touching it, smelling it, calling over the PC and other maintainers, and only intervened when the young buck was about to taste it. That's the Corpse for you.
Another "he did what on the cat?" on the story: a young AW3 was in the back of his S-3 (back when they had AWs in the Hoover) for his very first cat shot. Not quite comprehending the force of the cat shot, he sat there in tension, absentmindedly with digit in nostril and digging for gold. Salute, forward, aft, touching the deck, here we go, BAM! Next thing you know, the pilot is declaring an emergency and calling for an emergency pull forward because his AW3 has his pointy finger jammed in his nose up to the knuckle. The TACCO is telling him not to pull it out because God knows what'll come falling out. So they pull forward, trap successfully, and eventually the docs manage to extract the questing pointer. Kicker was, he seriously ruptured his sinuses (no surprise), so his flying days were over after one cat/trap. Hell of a way to get NPQ'ed.
Another "he did what on the cat?" on the story: a young AW3 was in the back of his S-3 (back when they had AWs in the Hoover) for his very first cat shot. Not quite comprehending the force of the cat shot, he sat there in tension, absentmindedly with digit in nostril and digging for gold. Salute, forward, aft, touching the deck, here we go, BAM! Next thing you know, the pilot is declaring an emergency and calling for an emergency pull forward because his AW3 has his pointy finger jammed in his nose up to the knuckle. The TACCO is telling him not to pull it out because God knows what'll come falling out. So they pull forward, trap successfully, and eventually the docs manage to extract the questing pointer. Kicker was, he seriously ruptured his sinuses (no surprise), so his flying days were over after one cat/trap. Hell of a way to get NPQ'ed.
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