A few years ago stepped back from the day to day operation of our family business, putting it in the hands of our youngest brother. Spent the next six months doing crossword with mother, God rest her soul. My proficiency level shot up to 7-0. Got bored and there it was, right next to the puzzle "Help Wanted Golf Course" Wow got in the car punched in the coordinance, turned on the atuopilot, and the next thing you know I was cutting grass in a beautiful setting, birds a'singing and ducking little white "in-coming" projectiles. Asked for advice from the boss. He replyed, you were in the service? I said yes Air Force...He said Situational Awareness. .... more to come....
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TDYs --- Fort Campbell Kentucky Early 1968
Home of the 101st airborne
and depending on which side of the camp you were on, you could be in Tennessee. If memory serves me ... a red paint line running thru a mess hall showing the Kentucky/Tenn demarcation.
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Two week of mostly standby time, brought along five C-141s from Dover AFB and various support personnel. Set up in large open bay barracks, got my first taste of Pinochle. Could not get enough of it. I was hooked.
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The C-124 Globemaster II is a four-engine long-range monoplane nicknamed 'Ol Shakey' served as the backbone of strategic air transport for the Air Force for the decade of the 1950s. C-124s provided heavy airlift during the Korean War and the Southeast Asia War. Other important airlifts included resupply missions to Antarctica, refugee evacuation in the Congo and mercy flights to Morocco, Chile and elsewhere throughout the world following floods and other natural disasters. The C-124 was a redesign of the original Globemaster the C-74 which had one key feature missing it could not accommodate wheeled vehicles. Douglas found that they could make the C-74 fuselage taller and put in clam shell doors in the nose of the aircraft right under the cockpit. What emerged was the C-124 Globemaster II.
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C-124 Globemaster II Details
Aircraft/Missile Information
Model Douglas C-124 Globemaster II Length 131.23 ft | 40.00 m Width 174.08 ft | 53.06 m Height 48.23 ft | 14.70 m Engine(s) 4 x Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines delivering 3,800hp each. Empty Weight 101,413 lbs | 46,000 kg MTOW 194,007 lbs | 88,000 kg Max Speed 323 mph | 520 km/h | 281 kts Max Range 2,175 miles | 3,500 km Ceiling 32,808 ft | 10,000 m | 6.2 miles Climb Rate Not Available Hardpoints 0 Armament None. Accommodations 6 Operators the United States of America
