Roost Air Lounge => Current Strip => Topic started by: gibbo_335 on May 16, 2007, 02:24:39 AM
Title: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: gibbo_335 on May 16, 2007, 02:24:39 AM
::rofl:: GREAT STRIP this week!!!! Nice one guys, we needed Julio over here last month when someone at the club ran one the 172SP's into the hangar door and broke the port wing tip light cover ::banghead::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Frank N. O. on May 16, 2007, 02:30:36 AM
Hehe, great strip. The Cardinal I flew in also suffered such a fate, or rather the stabilator had cracked from being banged into the doors when a pilot was pushing it into the hangar and it'd gotten no less than two drillholes to stop the crack increasing.
Frank
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Mike on May 16, 2007, 08:42:54 PM
::rofl:: GREAT STRIP this week!!!! Nice one guys, we needed Julio over here last month when someone at the club ran one the 172SP's into the hangar door and broke the port wing tip light cover ::banghead::
Ohhhh yeah . . . the old wingtips with all their covers and lights. . . . :'( We should have a strip just about those alone, huh?! ;)
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: gibbo_335 on May 16, 2007, 10:48:19 PM
::rofl:: GREAT STRIP this week!!!! Nice one guys, we needed Julio over here last month when someone at the club ran one the 172SP's into the hangar door and broke the port wing tip light cover ::banghead::
Ohhhh yeah . . . the old wingtips with all their covers and lights. . . . :'( We should have a strip just about those alone, huh?! ;)
Mike it'd go on for weeks and weeks ::rofl:: I'm sure there are tons of stories out there on this one
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: TheSoccerMom on May 17, 2007, 02:12:03 AM
Well, DUHHH! ::loony::
I have had plenty of hangars, lightpoles and trees all leap out at me while taxiiing -- haven't you guys?!?
:P
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: gibbo_335 on May 17, 2007, 02:15:13 AM
Don't ya just hate it when lamp posts just run across the ramp like that? ::complaining: :D :D
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Mike on May 17, 2007, 02:16:53 AM
Don't ya just hate it when lamp posts just run across the ramp like that? ::complaining: :D :D
I agree! They need to be fenced in! ;D
Don't overlook parked fuel trucks --had one of them sneaky suckers crack my wingtip at KFAT, they tried to say it was my fault because the truck was chocked and I was moving---HA ! :o
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: gibbo_335 on May 17, 2007, 04:24:42 AM
Don't ya just hate it when lamp posts just run across the ramp like that? ::complaining: :D :D
I agree! They need to be fenced in! ;D
Don't overlook parked fuel trucks --had one of them sneaky suckers crack my wingtip at KFAT, they tried to say it was my fault because the truck was chocked and I was moving---HA ! :o
Detils details ..they always blame the one who's moving ;D just 'cause they didn't SEE the tanker sneek under there sheezzzch ::whistle::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: airtac on May 17, 2007, 04:30:57 AM
Don't ya just hate it when lamp posts just run across the ramp like that? ::complaining: :D :D
I agree! They need to be fenced in! ;D
Don't overlook parked fuel trucks --had one of them sneaky suckers crack my wingtip at KFAT, they tried to say it was my fault because the truck was chocked and I was moving---HA ! :o
Detils details ..they always blame the one who's moving ;D just 'cause they didn't SEE the tanker sneek under there sheezzzch ::whistle::
EXACTLY MY POINT --I hate it when they don't believe me ::sulk:: ::sulk:: ::sulk:: ::sulk:: ::sulk::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: spacer on May 17, 2007, 06:20:40 AM
We were getting a new hangar, and chain-link fence surrounded the new concrete pad. This fence was well marked, too.
A supervisor in the maintenance department (who shall not be named here) was checking out a customer's complaint about the brakes on his Cessna 206. He ran the engine up near the terminal building, and the brakes... didn't hold. I don't know what happened in the cockpit, but the plane ended up tangled in a mess of fence.
Seven nose ribs, both leading edges needed skin, both wing tips wrecked, nose and one main gear wheelpant cracked up, prop mangled, engine had to come out for strike inspection... we ended up buying the airplane. Solved the brake problem though. 8)
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: cj5_pilot on May 17, 2007, 07:35:57 AM
Ask Tundra about pushing the Tundra Toy in to a hangar one time. I remember helping drill holes in new elevator tips......
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: airtac on May 17, 2007, 02:32:52 PM
Ask Tundra about pushing the Tundra Toy in to a hangar one time. I remember helping drill holes in new elevator tips......
Was that a "hanger door - 1, Tundra Toy - 0" moment ? :-[ There are more of us than will admit who have had those moments.........................
Actually we where well past the hangar door, it was the engine hoist in the back that KO'ed the plastic stabilizer tip. Darn thing snuck right in there when we weren't looking. ::complaining:
Phil
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Mike on May 17, 2007, 08:56:14 PM
Come on, Tundra!
Every kid knows you're supposed to chain your hoist down in the corner so it doesn't run around freely all over the hangar !!! ;D
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on May 17, 2007, 09:32:08 PM
I used to work at a Charter operation in the central US where we would squeeze the airplanes into the hangars so tightly, you had to duck underneath elevators and wings to get to the planes in the back of the hangar. Needless to say, there was a fair share of hangar rash on all the airplanes but the owner (a crusty old type of Rooster) didn't care. He simply said, "Push 'em until it sounds expensive." Go ahead and use that quote in the strip if you wish, Steph! ::bow::
The mechanic however would act exactly like Julio did. I just don't understand why mechanics take it so personally whenever a pilot breaks "his" airplanes... ::loony::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: gibbo_335 on May 17, 2007, 10:44:09 PM
He simply said, "Push 'em until it sounds expensive."
::rofl:: ::rofl:: ::rofl::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: BrianGMFS on May 18, 2007, 01:28:10 AM
One of the other line guys had a whole hangar jump in front of a King Air that pulled a "Herbie" moment and decided it didn't need it's tow bar ::eek:: Good thing the hangar decided to sacrifice itself.... If the Fuel farm had done it, we would have probably made CNN ::rofl::
Brian
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: spacer on May 18, 2007, 01:52:05 AM
One of the other line guys had a whole hangar jump in front of a King Air that pulled a "Herbie" moment and decided it didn't need it's tow bar ::eek:: Good thing the hangar decided to sacrifice itself.... If the Fuel farm had done it, we would have probably made CNN ::rofl::
Brian
King Airs are funny that way. One of the smartass knowitall line guys was barreling across the ramp and lost a 200 that way. Fortunately, it entered a depression in the ramp (drainage) and rolled to a stop. He slapped the tow bar back on and hoped nobody'd seen. Hehehe... yeah, right. Gotta make sure those things are tight, ya know.
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: BrianGMFS on May 18, 2007, 02:52:04 AM
Actually it was too tight.... our old Northwestern Tug shifts kinda hard between gears (automatic) and as he headed down the only hill on the airport it upshifted HARD and the threads stripped out of the tow bar and the offending C-90 started to gain speed, he got out of the way barely as the plane missed the fuel farm by about 15 feet and rolled into our old hangar (the planes intended destination) Dinged up the right wingtip, crushed the radome, and BENT one prop blade, no damage to the gearcase on the PT-6 though ::sweat:: so it was a pretty easy fix, she was only out of service for a month
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: tundra_flier on May 18, 2007, 03:49:50 AM
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The mechanic however would act exactly like Julio did. I just don't understand why mechanics take it so personally whenever a pilot breaks "his" airplanes...
That's easy to understand. After spending all that time fixing her up just right and taking care of her for all those years a mechanic looks at a plane like it's his/her daughter. So they just hate to see her get banged up by some hamfisted cocky pilot. ::banghead:: ::rambo::
Phil ::cowboy::
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on May 18, 2007, 05:36:20 AM
The mechanic however would act exactly like Julio did. I just don't understand why mechanics take it so personally whenever a pilot breaks "his" airplanes...
That's easy to understand. After spending all that time fixing her up just right and taking care of her for all those years a mechanic looks at a plane like it's his/her daughter. So they just hate to see her get banged up by some hamfisted cocky pilot. ::banghead:: ::rambo::
Phil ::cowboy::
I understand Phil, but in this case us Pilots were also the Line Boys!
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: AirtransRecon on May 18, 2007, 01:04:02 PM
I've often wondered if Pilots (the fresh just starting out variety) make good line boys.
KW
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: The Dancing Bear on May 18, 2007, 02:41:08 PM
I must admit ,I had a "hangar rash " incident with a King Air too. The only "rash" in my career thus far too.....damn the luck!
I remember it like it was a moment ago,it wasn't entirely my fault though ,my foot slipped off the brake pedal while positioning in front of the door ( It was winter, and the apron was a sheet of ice). I managed to limit the damage to the bird,but it still took a new elevator, rear stab fairing,& a week of work to get it back in the air.
Needless to say the customer was NOT pleased.
Title: Re: Julio the Unforgiving
Post by: tundra_flier on May 18, 2007, 04:33:57 PM
The mechanic however would act exactly like Julio did. I just don't understand why mechanics take it so personally whenever a pilot breaks "his" airplanes...
That's easy to understand. After spending all that time fixing her up just right and taking care of her for all those years a mechanic looks at a plane like it's his/her daughter. So they just hate to see her get banged up by some hamfisted cocky pilot. ::banghead:: ::rambo::
Phil ::cowboy::
I understand Phil, but in this case us Pilots were also the Line Boys!
