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Forum: Military Aviation

19th Jan 2017, 07:23

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Historic Overweight C130 Incident

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Posted By BEagle

ancientaviator62, the US cock-up was because...

ancientaviator62, the US cock-up was because Lockheed Martin used imperial units when NASA used metric. So on 23 Sep 1999, the US lost a $125 million spacecraft somewhere over Mars...

CNN -...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Jan 2017, 13:32

Replies: 63

Historic Overweight C130 Incident

Views: 24,122

Posted By BEagle

:hmm: I recall coming out of Dulles late one...

:hmm:

I recall coming out of Dulles late one night, with a full load of pongos. When the Air Engineer checked the fuel, we were over max ramp weight... All because the bone idle GE hadn't been...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th Jan 2017, 09:50

Replies: 63

Historic Overweight C130 Incident

Views: 24,122

Posted By BEagle

Back in the days before 241OCU was destroyed, we...

Back in the days before 241OCU was destroyed, we started doing 'C-to-K' courses for 10 Sqn's first AAR crews as their C1s were converted to C1Ks.

Which meant we had to convert back to the VC10C1,...

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