What have you carried?
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What have you carried?
Hi all you other Freight Dogs!
I was wondering what 'strange' and wonderful things you have all carried?
I suppose the oddest thing that we ever carried was a Tiger!
He was sedated and of course in the required 'Lock Up'
He was as good as gold but I thought I would ask some of you guys to pass on what stories you have about the weirdest things you have hauled across the miles?
Look forward to hearing........
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'Thats not Flying! Thats just falling with style'
I was wondering what 'strange' and wonderful things you have all carried?
I suppose the oddest thing that we ever carried was a Tiger!
He was sedated and of course in the required 'Lock Up'
He was as good as gold but I thought I would ask some of you guys to pass on what stories you have about the weirdest things you have hauled across the miles?
Look forward to hearing........
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'Thats not Flying! Thats just falling with style'
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How about 13 pallets, 85,000lbs 
of cargo to go to the Middle East--and not one pallet above the kneecap.
Once returned from same place and flew non-stop from Dharan to North Island NAS--triple Air Refuel, 23&1/2 hours flying time. When we arrived we still had to remain on the aircraft while cargo was downloded.
The company I was just laid off from has flown monkeys from Africa to Atlanta--were they were met by the CDC in full body suits, to transport the AIDS infected annimals to the center--all the crew was told was to be carefull around them
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of cargo to go to the Middle East--and not one pallet above the kneecap.Once returned from same place and flew non-stop from Dharan to North Island NAS--triple Air Refuel, 23&1/2 hours flying time. When we arrived we still had to remain on the aircraft while cargo was downloded.
The company I was just laid off from has flown monkeys from Africa to Atlanta--were they were met by the CDC in full body suits, to transport the AIDS infected annimals to the center--all the crew was told was to be carefull around them
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El Guapo 747
(Wow that is a BIG ONE!!)
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Excellent idea.
-Nasty load: 29 maindeck/9 lowerdeck pregnant cows to KWI. You should have seen the state of the airplane; sh*t running down the walls. I got hit once or twice (watch it when they cock their tails!)
-Big. We carried the 2 catamaran yachts to Kona/Hawaii for the Waterworld movie. I loaded that one on a freezing November morning -15C. 60 something feet long.
-Heavy: 38T generator on a 40ft pallet to SCL.
-Whale from BCN zoo to SAN Sea World, 20T.
-New currency & 6 armoured Mercedes to KGL. Rwanda went down the toilet 6 weeks later.
-Rhinoccerous (in a STRONG box!)13T.
And the funniest one I DIDN'T do: 100T gold bars MNL-GVA. Charterer couldn't come up with the money for the flight...
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-Nasty load: 29 maindeck/9 lowerdeck pregnant cows to KWI. You should have seen the state of the airplane; sh*t running down the walls. I got hit once or twice (watch it when they cock their tails!)
-Big. We carried the 2 catamaran yachts to Kona/Hawaii for the Waterworld movie. I loaded that one on a freezing November morning -15C. 60 something feet long.
-Heavy: 38T generator on a 40ft pallet to SCL.
-Whale from BCN zoo to SAN Sea World, 20T.
-New currency & 6 armoured Mercedes to KGL. Rwanda went down the toilet 6 weeks later.
-Rhinoccerous (in a STRONG box!)13T.
And the funniest one I DIDN'T do: 100T gold bars MNL-GVA. Charterer couldn't come up with the money for the flight...
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Hi MM,
Agricultural Gear eh?
I am afraid that happened to me several years now.
Out of the blue in Africa! I was told crates of tractor parts, who am I to go and prize the bloody crates open?
The manifest stated machine parts!!.
What it had omitted was the second word Machine GUN Parts, all together a hefty 40 tonnes of weapons of war including AK47s, Uniforms and shoulder launched anti-aircraft units!!
What a quick turnaround.... we returned empty!
You can do nothing else but trust the manifest sometimes, makes you wonder just what some people actually carry without knowing it!
Should have realised of course it was Angola!!!
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Remember'Freight is the Hunter'
Agricultural Gear eh?
I am afraid that happened to me several years now.
Out of the blue in Africa! I was told crates of tractor parts, who am I to go and prize the bloody crates open?
The manifest stated machine parts!!.
What it had omitted was the second word Machine GUN Parts, all together a hefty 40 tonnes of weapons of war including AK47s, Uniforms and shoulder launched anti-aircraft units!!
What a quick turnaround.... we returned empty!
You can do nothing else but trust the manifest sometimes, makes you wonder just what some people actually carry without knowing it!
Should have realised of course it was Angola!!!
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You could make a delicious & nutritious beverage from some of the stuff i've seen spilt on the main-deck!,how about live eels in a delicious bull seamen broth,with just a 'soupcon' of fluid leaking from a container of 'human infective agent' ( HIV,or Hep 'C'!) to garnish !.
MMMMMMH ,good to the last drop & no seasoning required !.
MMMMMMH ,good to the last drop & no seasoning required !.
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Very early on in my career we flew books out of SIN on a 707. Of course, as everyone knows, paper is about as dense and heavy as lead - but seeing that the pallets only came up to my knees, I suggested that we put more cargo on. Luckily, my partner was considerably wiser and countermanded that suggestion pronto!
We've also carried a lot of VAL cargo; ranging from gold to banknotes; as well as diesel/fuel oil in leaking drums.
As for earthmoving equipment/green medicine/agricultural equipment ... you might think that; but I couldn't possibly comment!
The worst cargo we ever carried was a shipment of pigs going down to West Africa - God, what a stink!! Took months for the aircraft to be flyable without judicious use of oxygen masks...
We've also carried a lot of VAL cargo; ranging from gold to banknotes; as well as diesel/fuel oil in leaking drums.
As for earthmoving equipment/green medicine/agricultural equipment ... you might think that; but I couldn't possibly comment!
The worst cargo we ever carried was a shipment of pigs going down to West Africa - God, what a stink!! Took months for the aircraft to be flyable without judicious use of oxygen masks...
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Live rainbow trout in an aerated container. They were to be placed in the output pond of a zinc mines refining facility in arctic Alaska. This was supposed to prove that the water quality was acceptable.
Lots of gold ore.
Garbage from the company's facility on the north slope oilfields. It was cheaper to haul it out than it was to dump it there.
Lots of gold ore.
Garbage from the company's facility on the north slope oilfields. It was cheaper to haul it out than it was to dump it there.
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MM,
Back when I was a lot younger & with a company long gone we did our fair share of '9mm agricultural machinery', some Govt. to Govt. & some not so kosher.
Then there was 27 ton of grass seedlings with a max 24 hour life. Flying Tigers (Ah a name to remember) bought it out of LAX to LHR & we took it to MCT where there were a few hundred locals with dibbers all ready to get this stuff in the ground!
Same destination for a complete circus, big top, animals, the lot. Due to Southern UK closing in fog for a couple of days, we nearly failed to get it there in time for the Sultans wifes birthday. Local chap was in a fair sweat at the time but just managed in time.
Then there's the 4 rocket firing Land Rovers (legal!) into THR for the Shah just 2 days before he left. Somewhat interesting!
Those were the days!
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Back when I was a lot younger & with a company long gone we did our fair share of '9mm agricultural machinery', some Govt. to Govt. & some not so kosher.
Then there was 27 ton of grass seedlings with a max 24 hour life. Flying Tigers (Ah a name to remember) bought it out of LAX to LHR & we took it to MCT where there were a few hundred locals with dibbers all ready to get this stuff in the ground!
Same destination for a complete circus, big top, animals, the lot. Due to Southern UK closing in fog for a couple of days, we nearly failed to get it there in time for the Sultans wifes birthday. Local chap was in a fair sweat at the time but just managed in time.
Then there's the 4 rocket firing Land Rovers (legal!) into THR for the Shah just 2 days before he left. Somewhat interesting!
Those were the days!
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I'm not old, I was just born too early
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- several dozens of reindeers to ZRH
- pair of white bears to ARN
- shark to AMS
- pair of dolphins and sea-calfs (circus) to Madagascar
- many times several tons of gold, mainly to ZRH
- several times rockets ex CHR (gov-to-gov)
- full charter to carry one small box (38 kgs) from LUX to NBO
- sereral times sveral hundred of foxes ex CPH (what a smell!)
- F1 and WRC cars
- pair of white bears to ARN
- shark to AMS
- pair of dolphins and sea-calfs (circus) to Madagascar
- many times several tons of gold, mainly to ZRH
- several times rockets ex CHR (gov-to-gov)
- full charter to carry one small box (38 kgs) from LUX to NBO
- sereral times sveral hundred of foxes ex CPH (what a smell!)
- F1 and WRC cars
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In the back of a Metro with pax in front, on separate trips a bear cub and a young moose both in boxes of course as well as moose sperm packed in dry ice(ah aviation in Canada).
In a shorts a/c full of desiel and nitrogen fertilizer( we called it the Oklahoma Special)
Anyone have stowaways on Cargo aircraft hidden in Cans/Igloos/Containers or whatever you called them where you fly??
In a shorts a/c full of desiel and nitrogen fertilizer( we called it the Oklahoma Special)
Anyone have stowaways on Cargo aircraft hidden in Cans/Igloos/Containers or whatever you called them where you fly??
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Not sure if this is an urban legend or not, but i was told it yesterday.
2 racing camels on the way to DXB in a RSAF C130, one of them went crazy and couldn’t be calmed. Capt ordered the tailgate opened and the offending animal removed. He probably saved the aircraft but ended up in a Saudi jail.
Or how about sending a L1011 to Mongolia to pick up Falcons! Or a MD11 to Italy to pick up Marble!
Mutt.
2 racing camels on the way to DXB in a RSAF C130, one of them went crazy and couldn’t be calmed. Capt ordered the tailgate opened and the offending animal removed. He probably saved the aircraft but ended up in a Saudi jail.
Or how about sending a L1011 to Mongolia to pick up Falcons! Or a MD11 to Italy to pick up Marble!
Mutt.
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Truth is, I don't know exactly what we are flying around. I know what the cargo sheet says, but who knows? All the stuff turns up in igloos, ready to go. For all I know I could be flying 15 tonnes of cocaine around and never know it. Still, never mind, eh? It still beats working for a living!