Open door on Herc

[jimgriff]

Last eve a very low flying herc sailed past the window (LFA7 (T)(Mid Wales)- "Look" says jimgriff junior- "the back door is open"- and lo- it was too! The ramp that is not the troop jump doors.
Opsec permitting why would this be?
There was nothing following- so not a camera ship
Not near a training drop zone (and I didnt think troop drops used the ramp unless it was for a HAHO or HALO drop.
No-one on ramp with a gun- so not practicing rear gunner skills!
Could it merely be for air circulation in the cab? It was V warm.

Just curious:8

[Pontius Navigator]

Hot day, someone farted?

[CirrusF]

Over Wales was it? Probably the loady was just having a wazz.

[jimgriff]

Jimgriff junior is going to love these answers!!;)

[bunta130]

Simulating an airdrop (cargo) is the most likely scenario.....

[Farfrompuken]

Probably needed to empty the overflowing urinals.

[Grabbers]

SPHLC lean against the ramp with inevitable consequences?

[Windy Militant]

Perhaps they were about to play the same trick they allegedly played on a mate of mine who was a loadie with the TA. Open hatch then run at ramp to prove the restraining straps work to stop you from going overboard when load dropping. Only since they demonstrated it on the ground they moved the karabiner securing the strap rearwards to the next anchor point. :eek:

[cheesedoff]

Was it a 'K'?

If it was perhaps the ramp was left hanging on the ADS arms as some sort of reminder to reset the gear horn CB and put the gear down?

[NutLoose]

Windy Militant (http://www.pprune.org/members/9447-windy-militant)




Perhaps they were about to play the same trick they allegedly played on a mate of mine who was a loadie with the TA. Open hatch then run at ramp to prove the restraining straps work to stop you from going overboard when load dropping. Only since they demonstrated it on the ground they moved the karabiner securing the strap rearwards to the next anchor point. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/eek.gif


one should not tempt providance, this is a major exapmle

Garry Hoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Hoy)



He is best known for the circumstances of his death; in an attempt to prove to a group of his partners at the firm that the glass in the Toronto-Dominion Centre was unbreakable, he threw himself through a glass wall on the 24th story and fell to his death after the window frame gave way.[1] He had apparently attempted this stunt many times in the past, having previously bounced harmlessly off the glass. The event occurred in a small boardroom adjacent to a boardroom where a reception was being held for new articling students. Mr. Hoy was a noted and respected corporate and securities law specialist in Toronto.


In the words of Toronto Police Service Detective Mike Stowell:"At this Friday night party, Mr. Hoy did it again and bounced off the glass the first time. However, he did it a second time and this time crashed right through the middle of the glass."In another interview, the firm's spokesman mentioned that the glass in fact did not break, but popped out of its frame, leading to Hoy's fatal plunge.
Hoy's death contributed to the closing of Holden Day Wilson in 1996, at the time the largest law firm closure in Canada.[2]

[Trojan1981]

Perhaps they were about to play the same trick they allegedly played on a mate of mine who was a loadie with the TA. Open hatch then run at ramp to prove the restraining straps work to stop you from going overboard when load dropping. Only since they demonstrated it on the ground they moved the karabiner securing the strap rearwards to the next anchor point.
I met a Scottish bloke at RAAF Amberley who did a bit of 'ramp surfing' in Africa. He was attached by his harness to a restraint point, but when he got back in the aircraft and attempted to change restraint points the ring lifted out of the floor:eek:

You can be a T/A loadie over there?

[Cougar]

Ramp riding - one of the joys of the job, especially over the beaches in summer :ok:

[Trojan1981]

I should clarify, he was hanging on to a roller the ramp with one hand-and had the photos to prove it!

[Windy Militant]

Trojan1981
Dunno about nowadays but he was one in the mid 90's when I used to lodge with his brother and missus. He used to crash with them when he was training at Alberts nest. Reminds me that he got them on a families day jolly and my landlady who was not the best traveler, was feeling really pleased with herself that she wasn't feeling airsick. Until they opened the ramp and she saw the Horizon was at about a 45° angle. Fortunately my mate saw her turn green and got a chuckle bag to her just in time :yuk:. This happened on Saturday arfo and she was still looking green when I got back from the girlfriends place on Sunday evening!

[Unchecked]

I think you're referring to a TA Air Despatcher, not an RAF Loady, 2 quite different things.

[snaggletooth]

TA Loadie? Methinks not. Such a thing does not exist.

[airborne_artist]

There may have been TA Air Despatchers?

[isaneng]

There still are TA air despatchers. And like a lot of the TA guys, who do the job with enthusiasm, they're bloomin' good. We do have aircrew on the Auxiliary flight, of all trades, but who knows how long for.....

[Mandator]

Saw the same thing two or three months ago as a K flew through the overhead at Fenland Aerodrome, Lincs, early one evening. There were two or three people ramp-riding and waving at us plebs on the ground. It then blundered off in the general direction of Marham and I was later told that the same aircraft may then have bumbled through Duxford on its way back to the Big L.

[flipster]

Albert neither 'bumbles' nor 'blunders'; it thunders majestically........mostly!:):)

[Pontius Navigator]

Albert neither 'bumbles' nor 'blunders'; it thunders majestically........mostly!:):)

What will an A400 do?

A bumblebus or a blundersbus?

[Hercmech]

Ha ha, I'm that Scottish guy Trojan 1981 met at Amberley.
When I worked for Southern Air Transport, we'd often leave the ramp down after airdrops in Southern Sudan and hang out the back at very low level.
I yearn for these old days and now have to be content with kicking the tyres of red jets

[Samuel]

I bet it's not nearly as much fun as a Beverley with no doors attached...