Well then it was a near thing for both of you.
Charlie
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, Chuck would still be here since I was about 3 months old at the time
> that happened. But my world would likely have been very much different and
> there might well be no Dr. Flash. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 1/26/2015 10:29 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
>> That *could* have been a disaster: No Chuck! No Dr. Flash!
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> There's a little story that goes with my father and P-38s. He was an
>>> aircraft mechanic and not a pilot but he did have to move aircraft
>>> himself
>>> from time to time so the mechanics were at least taught how to start and
>>> taxi an aircraft to a different location.
>>>
>>> The mechanics preceded the pilots to Honington in early '44 when the
>>> P-38s
>>> were flown in by transfer pilots. The transfer pilots just left aircraft
>>> at the end of the runway and left immediately to pick up more aircraft.
>>> It
>>> was up to the mechanics to move the aircraft to their normal parking
>>> places. It was late at night and my father had moved very many aircraft
>>> and was dead tired. To move them to the parking spots he had to taxi the
>>> aircraft down a runway that was lined on both sides with hundreds of
>>> drums
>>> of aviation gas. He was so tired that at one point he fell asleep at the
>>> controls and suddenly awoke to discover that he was airborne. Fortunately
>>> he had not lifted off very far nor veered off to the side and into the
>>> gas
>>> barrels. It could have been a really bad and probably fatal accident.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/26/2015 12:56 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>>>
>>> I read the entry for P-38 and it doesn’t mention in the summary at
>>>> the start that it was a virtual death trap. It had problems of
>>>> compressiblity at high airspeed which the engineers did not solve
>>>> until well after it came into service. I suppose the requirements of
>>>> operations forced everyone's hand, but such an aircraft would not be
>>>> allowed into service today.
>>>>
>>>> I do know Honington, as you say. Unfortunately it’s not a full-time
>>>> airfield now: it has been taken over by the RAF Regiment, and they
>>>> don’t fly . . .
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On 26 Jan 15, at 01:53, Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My father used to repair them during the war
>>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning
>>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-38_Lightning>> as well as
>>>>> P-51s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang
>>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang>> He was
>>>>> stationed at RAF Honington from 1943-45 which Chris is quite
>>>>> familiar with.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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