Freight DogsFinally a forum for those midnight prowler types who utilise the unglamorous parts of airports that many of us never get to see. Freight Dogs is for pilots and crew who operate mostly without SLF.
There was a similar incident to the Great Lobster Escape
at Luton involving EELS from Ireland, and an Autair Lizzy.
Eels were popping up everywhere for weeks after.
Stronger crates were needed.
Stuff so secret that if I told you what it was 50 million ninjas infected with HN-51 (who also happen to be freemasons) hired by the same arm of the CIA that blew up the WTC would absail from black helicopters with no lights on and they would all simultaneously give you the touch of death and then you would be dead and no-one would ever know that you existed because they would erase your identity.
That is how secret this was, and it was even more secret than all the other stuff that other people on here have "claimed" is so secret that they can't tell you about it or verify it for that matter.
As I previously posted we hauled Coca Cola "concentrate" on a DC-6 in the early 80's. I never saw so many cops (armed) and undercover etc. than any other flight Ive done including a plane full of prisoners, top secret military stuff, money, diamonds etc.
Can anyone remember Ace Freighters flying 2 tons of Nitro Glycerine a time
(Frozen in CarDice packed containers) from Lyneham to Woomera
in 1966. Did three trips on one of these.
Apparently for the Snowy Mountain Dam scheme in Aus.
Lovely SMOOTH landings
This sounds like a fairy tale to me. First, nitroglycerine is in liquid form, very sensitive. In explosives or pharmaceutical factories (it is also used as a medication for heart conditions, e.g. nitrolingual), it is usually made in a remote bunker, away from other factory installations, and then transported in polyethylene cans of 10-20 liters at one time to the mixing building (where it is being mixed with other components, like wood pulp and ammonia nitrate for ammonia nitrate dynamites) to desensitise it.
Frozen nitroglycerine is extremely dangerous, much more than the liquid stuff, when frozen, it forms little cristalls, which can go off at the slightest touch.
Not for nothing is handling frozen dynamite considered one of the most dangerous operations in blasting. Many commercial dynamite type explosives use a mix of nitroglycerine and nitoglycol, which has a lower freezing point.
BTW, I did my national service in a heavy rescue engineering unit of the German civil defense and was trained in demolitions and blasting, so I have a bit of experience (theoretical as well as practical) with explosives.
Wow I'm really impressed by all that info MD11engineer!
Had we known all that back in '66 I'm sure none of us
would've bothered to turn up!
I'll know better next time. Thanks.
But , Seriously , That's the way it was then.
Flew from Kennedy to Colonge in a MD-11 with just one box. It was full of Russian Art worth 60 million.. And the person they sent along to watch the cargo was the hottest Russion girl Ive ever seen. Well, all I can say is that "I" flew the whole flight (and the auto pilot) cause the captian was to busy telling war stories to her...HA HA I guess its good to be the Capt!
Sultan of Omans Air Force Seeb, mid 80's. At the end of Ramadhan the Sultan shipped, by air, live goats and sheep to outlying townships and villages so they could be slaughtered for the Eid celebrations.
They mostly went on Skyvans to the small dirt strips, but one C130 full of sheep and goats went to Masirah Island and Thumrait for the troops to celebrate Eid. On this occasion a dump truck turned up at the air cargo hangar full of goats, so I asked the Pakistani driver how we would get the goats out of the dump truck so they could go into their crates which were then palletized for loading in the Herc. "No problem sir" was the response as he yanked the lever that made the dump bed rise in the air. Result? All the goats slid to the back and fell through the unfastened flap and promptly scattered far and wide.
Seeb airport was then closed for about two hours while we rounded up the goats like crazed herders. We got most of them, but some of my cargo handlers had liberated goats jammed in the back of their cars ready to celebrate Eid in fine style.
I remember a sign outside Liverpool airport which used to read 'Welcome to Liverpool. A nuclear Free City', whatever that was supposed to mean!
I was rather surprised considering I was taking spent nuclear fuel rods from Sellafield (which had arrived overnight by truck, through said same streets!) onto their rather odd destination!
But it was the early 80's!
The strangest thing I have ever carried in my airplane was a 20 ibs box with a heart in it. I flew it from LAX to Montgomery field. I had the permission from the chief pilot to bump up the power if I needed to get there on time.
In this morning's post:
6 boxes of live lobsters
1 bucket of live worms, type unspecified.
2 boxes medical samples.
1 box Fresias (apparently it's a plant)
Breakfast anyone?
Kabooooom
Greenbacks, lots of them
ah, come on! 
Linear Mode
