Original Posted By: Ed0248(at)aol.com
I told you guys not to yell at me...That was not in any way an endorcement of exceeding gross wt. I just thought youfellows would be interested in what I had heard and read.About the c-47 in the berlin airlift...the pilot reported that the flight was avery scary experience.http://www.mailexcite.com________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: gross wt.
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Original Posted By: steve(at)byu.edu
A small story to relate: In real life I work for a major (unnamed) airline. We used to do contractmaintenance for another major carrier that happened to fly freighters throughMemphis. They had one airplane, a Boeing 720, that the crews kept writing upas "sluggish on the controls", or "too much nose up trim required". The othercarrier did everything they could think of to figure it out. My buddies and Ispent many nights scratching our heads about this one, because everythingchecked out by the book. We even checked control cable length and tension,rigging of the hydraulic packs, etc.It also seems that the carrier had paid a claim for a customer for a lostpiece of sheet metal. One part ot the company never thought to ask the other.Time went by. The crews kept writing up the airplane. Nobody could findanything wrong. The airplane went into heavy check, and the hanger crewsstarted taking it apart, just like they're supposed to. When they got intothe rear lower cargo compartment, they found that the floor had a "heavy,metal doubler, just laying on the floor." Guess what that doublerwas...that's right, a (as I remember it) 450 pound piece of steel plate thatalmost exactly fit the dimensions of the floor! Once the metal was removed,the airplane flew exactly as advertised.Just a memory from a distant past.Remember, THE AIRPLANE KNOWS!!!Ed ________________________________________________________________________________
A small story to relate: In real life I work for a major (unnamed) airline. We used to do contractmaintenance for another major carrier that happened to fly freighters throughMemphis. They had one airplane, a Boeing 720, that the crews kept writing upas "sluggish on the controls", or "too much nose up trim required". The othercarrier did everything they could think of to figure it out. My buddies and Ispent many nights scratching our heads about this one, because everythingchecked out by the book. We even checked control cable length and tension,rigging of the hydraulic packs, etc.It also seems that the carrier had paid a claim for a customer for a lostpiece of sheet metal. One part ot the company never thought to ask the other.Time went by. The crews kept writing up the airplane. Nobody could findanything wrong. The airplane went into heavy check, and the hanger crewsstarted taking it apart, just like they're supposed to. When they got intothe rear lower cargo compartment, they found that the floor had a "heavy,metal doubler, just laying on the floor." Guess what that doublerwas...that's right, a (as I remember it) 450 pound piece of steel plate thatalmost exactly fit the dimensions of the floor! Once the metal was removed,the airplane flew exactly as advertised.Just a memory from a distant past.Remember, THE AIRPLANE KNOWS!!!Ed ________________________________________________________________________________