I remember being diverted from the northbound freight run to take an engineer from AS to a strip up near the Gulf where one of the 45-legs-a-day mail run aircraft had got stuck with a failed nose oleo.
The mail pilot (Fulch) and I had to sit on the tail while the seal was changed. The engineer had brought a
bicycle pump with him to pressurise the oleo
What are they charged to, 90psi?
After 30 minutes of listening to ineffective
pffft, pffft noises from the front we got off, made the engineer sit on the tail while we wound a tie down rope round the oleo as a temporary 'spring' after which Fulch flew it back to AS with the gear down.*
*If anyone from CASA is reading this may or may not be true
