strangest freight
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Gone from the FL sun to the desert Oasis
Age: 57
Posts: 199
How about Komodo Dragons
Ok, heres my contribution. I had to oversea 3 Komodo Dragons from CGK to LAX on GA and then ship two to MIA and one to MSP.
The one to MSP went fine, if you consider you couldnt approach the cages and had to stay at least 10ft away from the fronts.
The duo to MIA was the nightmare from Hell. At 11pm on a Friday
night, Bloody domestic carrier, no naames here, decided they wouldnt carry the creatures onto MIA. So with Customs, Fish & Wildlife, and Officers from the Center of Disease control standing around to monitor the process, I had to figure out how to get them to the Miami Zoo. Thankfully cargo carriers dont have problems with animals that could kill ya by looking at ya..LOL.
Also shipped Sly Stallone's Ferrari to the Sultan of Brunei.
Just remembered the time we loaded 30tons of McNugget
powder to OZ. We all looked like Pillbury dough boys after that
one
The one to MSP went fine, if you consider you couldnt approach the cages and had to stay at least 10ft away from the fronts.
The duo to MIA was the nightmare from Hell. At 11pm on a Friday
night, Bloody domestic carrier, no naames here, decided they wouldnt carry the creatures onto MIA. So with Customs, Fish & Wildlife, and Officers from the Center of Disease control standing around to monitor the process, I had to figure out how to get them to the Miami Zoo. Thankfully cargo carriers dont have problems with animals that could kill ya by looking at ya..LOL.
Also shipped Sly Stallone's Ferrari to the Sultan of Brunei.
Just remembered the time we loaded 30tons of McNugget
powder to OZ. We all looked like Pillbury dough boys after that
one
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Trumpville; On the edge
Posts: 435
...a 'sighting device' for one of Betty's underwater cigars.......raised on wooden pallets so that it would fit over the ramp incline. Cigar had exceeded 'peeping speed' and bent the other one 'somewhere down south!'
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Asia
Posts: 33
Full loads all
Horses Calgary - Anchorage - Sapporo (hot and sweaty)
Dairy Cows New York - Amsterdam - Kuwait (hot and stinky)
'Smart' bombs Norfolk - Bosnia (can't remember the place)
Cigarettes New York - Tashkent (local politician's wife bought the charter - unloaded by hand via 10m ladder in 12 hours by a horde who received 1 box Marlboros ea for their efforts)
Glad those days are over
Horses Calgary - Anchorage - Sapporo (hot and sweaty)
Dairy Cows New York - Amsterdam - Kuwait (hot and stinky)
'Smart' bombs Norfolk - Bosnia (can't remember the place)
Cigarettes New York - Tashkent (local politician's wife bought the charter - unloaded by hand via 10m ladder in 12 hours by a horde who received 1 box Marlboros ea for their efforts)
Glad those days are over
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 156
1. Gonorrhoea samples to DXB (all they would have to do is scrape a Dubai bog seat and they'd save a fortune)
2. Manchester United football shirts to HKG to be trucked to China, embroidered, trucked back to HKG and then flown back to Manch & sold.
2. Manchester United football shirts to HKG to be trucked to China, embroidered, trucked back to HKG and then flown back to Manch & sold.
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: in my combat underpants
Age: 49
Posts: 1,065
The mention of bubble wrap as a surprise shows the civvy side here - us mil types ship that [email protected] all the time.
Moving 120T of salt was amusing. Was supposed to be road salt for a special and remote place. We got 120T of table salt delivered! We flew it. And it worked.
Moving 120T of salt was amusing. Was supposed to be road salt for a special and remote place. We got 120T of table salt delivered! We flew it. And it worked.
Sprucegoose
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Hughes Point, where life is great! Was also resident on page 13, but now I'm lost in Cyberspace....
Age: 56
Posts: 3,486
3 Pizzas out of Darwin in a C-210 many moons ago.
About $500, Bl
dy expensive pizza's.....
Numerous Crocodiles (dead of course).
And my personal favourite, a frozen indonesian fisherman (also dead of course).
Cheers, HH.
About $500, Bl
dy expensive pizza's.....Numerous Crocodiles (dead of course).
And my personal favourite, a frozen indonesian fisherman (also dead of course).
Cheers, HH.
Last edited by Howard Hughes; 26th Oct 2004 at 23:39.
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: England
Posts: 71
A gorilla from JER, a carpet to Rome, 2 tonnes of suchi to Milan for a fashion show and strangest of all about 100 Kgs of mail to EMA on a sunday! WHY!!!! a van would be cheaper!!!!.
Oh the best was watching 100 upset West Ham fans getoff a B737 last saturday Ha Ha Ha!!!!
EAGLES!!!!!!!!
Oh the best was watching 100 upset West Ham fans getoff a B737 last saturday Ha Ha Ha!!!!
EAGLES!!!!!!!!
oooeeerrrr missus. And that is absolutly true. Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Location Location
Posts: 448
Was at EGPF in the 80s when a USAF C5A arrived to pick up an American submarine to take home for servicing.
Doing walkround at LGW prior to flight to ESSA. Loaders were considering what to do about a box about 15'x3'x2' which was leaking clear fluid. Closer inspection revealed that it smelt of fish.Turned out that a Swedish holiday maker had caught a Marlin (?) whilst game fishing in the Seychelles and was shipping it back to Stockholm. I declined to take it, never did find out what happened to it.
Doing walkround at LGW prior to flight to ESSA. Loaders were considering what to do about a box about 15'x3'x2' which was leaking clear fluid. Closer inspection revealed that it smelt of fish.Turned out that a Swedish holiday maker had caught a Marlin (?) whilst game fishing in the Seychelles and was shipping it back to Stockholm. I declined to take it, never did find out what happened to it.
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: CYZV
Age: 74
Posts: 1,259
14 live caribou in a DC-3 on skis from a lake out in the boonies to a nature park. They were tranked and hobbled.
A load of beds in a Beaver on floats in to a fishing camp. The cabin was full of matresses, so the bed frames were strapped onto the canoe strut. There was no room for a seat for the passenger that went in, so he climbed up on the matresses and lay down for the whole flight.
Live lobsters in an Otter on floats. The were loose and I spent half the time kicking the bloody things outta the cockpit.
Max Ward once carried a full sized upright piano strapped to the float of an Otter. He said his touchdown was so smooth there was nary a sour note.
A load of beds in a Beaver on floats in to a fishing camp. The cabin was full of matresses, so the bed frames were strapped onto the canoe strut. There was no room for a seat for the passenger that went in, so he climbed up on the matresses and lay down for the whole flight.
Live lobsters in an Otter on floats. The were loose and I spent half the time kicking the bloody things outta the cockpit.
Max Ward once carried a full sized upright piano strapped to the float of an Otter. He said his touchdown was so smooth there was nary a sour note.
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Bechuanaland
Posts: 183
The Necessities of Life
A couple of decades ago. Six whores (and a load of booze) to a mining camp in the middle of absolutely nowhere in lousy rainy weather, arriving after midnight to land on a gravel strip without comms - and the only lighting being trucks and cars all on high beam pointed into the approach along both sides.
The boys had struck the mother lode. The ladies brought much of that home with them the next morning and boy were they ripe...
It was only after I sighted the size of the cheques that they were comparing (all signed by the Company Secretary) that I realized that I'd been born the wrong sex. Caught a ride home with one of the ladies in her Jaguar. Wife monitored my arrival home and grilled me about that fairly exhaustively. I needed to show her the flight-plan to get out from under her suspicions.
The boys had struck the mother lode. The ladies brought much of that home with them the next morning and boy were they ripe...
It was only after I sighted the size of the cheques that they were comparing (all signed by the Company Secretary) that I realized that I'd been born the wrong sex. Caught a ride home with one of the ladies in her Jaguar. Wife monitored my arrival home and grilled me about that fairly exhaustively. I needed to show her the flight-plan to get out from under her suspicions.
