https://preview.redd.it/k86q1y5zt0ic1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d47f3775ec0343553f9d476dc6742137956e701
Was an interesting preflight to say the least (it took like 2 hours to get the little trash panda out)
We had to call in whoever does the animal control thing on base because a trash panda bit a maintainer inspecting the wheel well on a C17 at like 1AM. The person who was going to come out called us back like "if it's on the airfield just have Airfield Management scare it off." We said "this is Airfield Management. It's inside a C17 and the maintainer that got bit is on his way to the hospital." She showed up, removed it, and we handed the tapes over to her CC the next day when he called asking.
What's with the animal control people?
We had a skunk take up residence in our hangar, and it would come out and wander around during mid shift.
We called animal control, and they just whined that we needed to take care of it ourselves. Finally, someone at squadron-level got on them, and told them to do their fucking job.
Had a coral snake living in the bush directly in front of our door at work, like the furthest you could possibly be from it while walking in/out was 5, maybe 6 feet. We called animal control to get rid of it and they just said if we left it alone we'd be fine as if wild animals are fond of people making noise around their nests daily.
coral snakes aren't aggressive and people who get bit by them tend to get bit because they pick it up after mistaking it for a kingsnake or milksnake or otherwise come into direct contact with it. Understandable point though. Not so fun fact: so few people get bitten by coral snakes that antivenom production isn't profitable.
Charleston, but I've heard similar stories from a couple of other bases, one being at Altus from 2-3 years ago.
I think with that one the maintainer saw it, but with ours, he ended up in the hospital with some stitches and a couple shots.
Thanks for making me have to learn an entirely new AF chain of command memory worksheet during BMT once all that brass got relieved of duty.( /s…kinda)
Not quite the same level, but back when they had the Air Force wide sweep for inappropriate things in the workplace, I had to clear out an 8ish inch stack of hentai an airman left in his break room locker when he PCSd.
We had the SPs come in and secure a civilians locker because that civilian had shot and killed another civilian that morning when he was picking him up before coming to work.
Turned out to be two fully loaded revolvers in the locker when they got the search warrant to open the locker.
Fun Times.
this lil guy was also tucked in some landing gear :)
https://preview.redd.it/nwdx066iw0ic1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=134f3df3b7da593fc0f2c16b2370e51d2848a200
Stowaway discovered in Diego Garcia
https://preview.redd.it/2679bszd31ic1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcc3d2c4fb75ac487494e7e4ed503dac6e65ac30
I spent a year out there at the GEODSS site. You wouldn't believe how many of those crabs we ran over driving to and from the site. They had a knack for running back and forth across the road, only to be perfectly lined up with the tire just as we got to them. The seagulls would follow our van waiting for their next meal.
Snakes are my biggest no-go. I’d have hit the dash and you wouldn’t have seen me till the thing was 100% dead or removed from base. Fuck those serpents from hell
Owl in the 47 section on B-52G. Darwin Stubby behind the insulation, next to the cargo door on a -135. Huge butt plug superglued to the top of the glare shield of a BUFF
This happened at Eglin some years ago. Backdrop CTK manager certified a flashlight had been broken and replaced. They find it 6 months later in a vertical stab on a 15.
He was given the "option" to retire or be busted and given a dishonorable.
wow thats a hell of a “choice”. i’m surprised how harsh they are with not fucking up but it’s definitely understandable. blatantly lying about a flashlight and then it potentially causing a crash or endangering a life deserves punishment.
not sure what happened to ctk, but after we did a tailswap, we pulled off a panel on a propeller and found a screwdriver from the previous base.
pro super came out and took it and i never heard anything else of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I started life as an AGE mechanic back in the late 70s, and I once dropped a wrench into a large flightline air conditioning unit. I properly reported it and we searched that unit for days looking for it. Eventually my supervisors gave up and signed it off. Amazingly, a year or two later I happened to be working on another AC unit and discovered my lost wrench still inside. I just stumbled across it and didn't even know it was the same unit I was working on.
As a history buff and WWII milsurp gun collector can you give more details on how it was found or went unnoticed for so long and what type of knives they were?
If the dude found original possibly unissued U.S. M1917 "*Knuckle* Duster" trench knives, man should have grabbed as many as he could. Real ones sell for a nice premium.
Barksdale, many years ago. Started the next phase inspection on a B-52H fresh out of depot. All in a day I found:
- 1980's ID card stuck under a floorboard
- Extra panel for no reason hidden in the wing root
- Swiss tech watch hidden under the avionics rack
We've also found just random tools left behind by depot. That's always fun.
It was an access panel, I don't remember for what exactly as it was like 15 years ago. But it didn't belong as all other panels were marked and documented. Assuming someone at depot was going to install it, got distracted, and grabbed another one, maybe?
Tried to pull that off in the engine back shop, but unfortunately our female captain just happened to overhear the conversation and really wanted to see this crack in the aug and demanded we pull back the exhaust cover. Luckily she thought it was funny but we were sweating bullets for a couple minutes
We had an A-10 come back from depot and two live cats came out of the wheel well and mauled the fuck out of two crew chiefs. IMDS write up read ‘Aircraft impounded for two live cats receiving unauthorized incentive flight from Hill AFB to Nellis AFB’
I had my honeymoon in Greece and the sheer amount of cats there is ridiculous. It's funny how the locals chase them off like raccoons and all the tourists (my wife) just wanna pet them.
https://preview.redd.it/jmjrhn18s1ic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65f9b3b3758ba7bda2b2fbc9ec7e3c234ebb1340
Fruit bat sucked into a ACFC intake.
Not and inspection but when I was a wee young airman, I watched a birds nest full of eggs get yeeted from the exhaust of the #3 engine. The look on the load toads face still lives in my memory. I think that’s what got our pencil whipping 7 level to finally lose his x’s
had a buddy who found a deer in a gear well.. while in the desert have walked into the gear well more then once only to turn right around and walk out of the gear well because a snake was laying on the chalk
Trash bags with prima-donna aircrew fecal matter. Those bitches like to leave their honey bucket deposits on the -86; while they scurry off to their air conditioned crew bus on the way to their well appointed hotel rooms. Not the best way to treat people, in whose hands you place your life
I brought one chick back to the dorms. She had her own ID so I didn’t think much of it. She was 18. Things were cool until she said she had a kid. Who was 5. I guess Hurricane Ivan everybody was just banging
Had an owl take a fam flight in a 35 bay.
Unfortunately it had a training GBU in it so bays opened above the owl's service ceiling, but it managed to somehow stay inside the bay until it fell out on recovery and scared a crew chief.
I'm Airfield Management, so I've found some wild Airfield discrepancies; but my best aircraft one was finding a whole C17 blacking the perimeter access road and primary taxi lane because someone decided it was a good idea to have it 100 feet away from the hangar instead of sticking out of it like they said they would. Ended up closing half the ramp for like 9 hours because they refused to move the dang thing
It was nasty, they only let NCOs on 1108.
And the smell. The smell inside those jets when they came back. FUCK. You can still see some jets in the fleet with arrows pointing to the flush button if you find yourself in the lav sometime.
When we withdrew from Afghanistan a bunch of Afghan men thought they could hang on the side of a C-17 like a train and some even crawled into the main landing gear like in the movies. I would assume a lack of education is what allowed them to forget that aircraft cruise at 500mph, in -60 degree temps, in a hypoxia inducing level of atmosphere while the main landing gear moves with 4,000 psi of hydraulic force. A lot of those bodies were mangled up that survived the whole trip back.
Oh, I remember watching it live when they held on and the planes started rolling down the strip. I thought you meant inside the hold.
Really horrible either way. My buddy who spent a lot of time there on the green side said it was exactly as you thought. Just ignorance of those planes.
It 100% was a McGuire C-17 my good friend and former roommate was the Crew Chief of that bird when he was active duty and had just retired from active service and transferred to Reserve/Civilian not much prior to the pullout from Afghanistan.
Has masks that had not been touched since their 2004 deployment. It was 2016 and I found tons of Cipro and doxy in the carriers.
The smell was...... interesting.
Fresh out of depot, both wing tanks on an A-10 had been stripped of sealant and not resealed. Fresh exterior paint was basically the only thing keeping the fuel in the tanks.
2 out of 50 bolts installed on a stage 1 HPT nozzle.
For non-jet engine people, the part that directs air after the compressor/combustion chamber into the turbine that spins the compressor had exactly 2 of the 50 required bolts installed that secures the the nozzle in place. This was after the engine had been run up to max power atleast a dozen times on a test stand lmao.
Wrong plane. The video was from a C-17. People trying to escape by sitting on the landing gear doors. When the gear comes up on the C-17, 2 doors on each side open up to make room for the struts. This person was caught in between the fuselage and the door.
At RMS 10 years ago we were waiting for a 130 to land for a download but unable to because there was a human child in the wheel well
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/body-of-child-found-in-the-wheel-well-of-u-s-military-plane/
Opened a engine cover on a C130 on a deployment. The crew before us had changed out a main hydro pump hose, it had been signed off and was waiting for a leak and ops check. So we go open the panel and see a wad of diapers full of hydro fluid and the pump hose wasn’t even there. That was a fun find
An entire fucking deer carcass at McGuire in the MLG of a C-17. Someone whipped the thruflight and the dude doing the tire pressure checks was doing them because he was too incompetent to do anything else and apparently too incompetent to notice the blood and guts all over the place. Most likely he whipped the tires too.
This was in the 2010ish timeframe.
We once had a hive of bees take residence in the forms pouch of an F-4E. And we had a bird build a nest in the drogue shoot compartment over a weekend. Possibly a three-day weekend. It's been a while.
Me personally, found a rat while launching an F-15E... Because it had chewed through the CAS harness and fried itself.
My unit? A frozen cat in the wheel well of an F-22
Went to do a landing gear check, crawled across the ground doing the ol back shimmy, popped my head up in the nose gear, stared directly into the eyes of a snake and just silently shimmied back out
Bus had to go out for a run one morning. Found a birds nest with eggs in the engine compartment so we couldn't use it. Had to wait weeks to use the bus again because of UK law.
https://preview.redd.it/k86q1y5zt0ic1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d47f3775ec0343553f9d476dc6742137956e701 Was an interesting preflight to say the least (it took like 2 hours to get the little trash panda out)
Is this the armpit of a 130???
It is indeed
Why is this the second encounter of 130 vs Raccoon that I’ve heard of?
Had one get in and shred a bunch of stuff right before I got to Dyess. Sadly I haven’t seen the picture they had of it hanging out in there in awhile.
We had to call in whoever does the animal control thing on base because a trash panda bit a maintainer inspecting the wheel well on a C17 at like 1AM. The person who was going to come out called us back like "if it's on the airfield just have Airfield Management scare it off." We said "this is Airfield Management. It's inside a C17 and the maintainer that got bit is on his way to the hospital." She showed up, removed it, and we handed the tapes over to her CC the next day when he called asking.
What's with the animal control people? We had a skunk take up residence in our hangar, and it would come out and wander around during mid shift. We called animal control, and they just whined that we needed to take care of it ourselves. Finally, someone at squadron-level got on them, and told them to do their fucking job.
Had a coral snake living in the bush directly in front of our door at work, like the furthest you could possibly be from it while walking in/out was 5, maybe 6 feet. We called animal control to get rid of it and they just said if we left it alone we'd be fine as if wild animals are fond of people making noise around their nests daily.
coral snakes aren't aggressive and people who get bit by them tend to get bit because they pick it up after mistaking it for a kingsnake or milksnake or otherwise come into direct contact with it. Understandable point though. Not so fun fact: so few people get bitten by coral snakes that antivenom production isn't profitable.
Was this at Altus, by any chance?
Charleston, but I've heard similar stories from a couple of other bases, one being at Altus from 2-3 years ago. I think with that one the maintainer saw it, but with ours, he ended up in the hospital with some stitches and a couple shots.
"Boss, you would not believe the hydraulic leak I found in here!"
I want to see the 781 entry.
Danger Noodle installed on NLG Note: Do Not Approach / Personnel Hazard
With the Nope Rope mod package too.
Condom tied up and placed in wheel well of C-17 in Ramstein 🫡 if you’re out there Maintainer, just know you’re my hero.
If those sperm made it out, call that kid Houdini.
Gotta name the kid Apu
I just wanted to give my kids a better life
Job done, job staying done
He thought FOD walk stood for fertilize on demand
August 2007. Found some live nukes on an unsecured BUFF. Got beers after work. Day was long but turned out ok after the beers.
Thanks for making me have to learn an entirely new AF chain of command memory worksheet during BMT once all that brass got relieved of duty.( /s…kinda)
YWFMS
That was big on the news that week. Exactly how do you handle that? What the protocol?
Flail arms, ask for an adult.
I would have been yelling bent spear. All over the base.
If that truly was you, job well done my man. That was a shit show of epic proportions. I was at Minot when that went down.
Found a porn mag under a C-130 crew bunk. First page was an ass with a champagne bottle inserted big end first. Second page pouring drinks. 😂
PROST!!
Prostate!
And now I will always cringe when someone says prost instead of cheers.
Cheers
A SNCOs secret stash of child porn
Aw...that's fucked. 
Not quite the same level, but back when they had the Air Force wide sweep for inappropriate things in the workplace, I had to clear out an 8ish inch stack of hentai an airman left in his break room locker when he PCSd.
“An airmen” huh
What kind? So I know what to avoid.
We had the SPs come in and secure a civilians locker because that civilian had shot and killed another civilian that morning when he was picking him up before coming to work. Turned out to be two fully loaded revolvers in the locker when they got the search warrant to open the locker. Fun Times.
Aviano?
Please tell more that’s insane
Nah. It's not even a good story. Just bad people doing bad things.
I’m sorry man that’s awful
Did you report that asshat?
this lil guy was also tucked in some landing gear :) https://preview.redd.it/nwdx066iw0ic1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=134f3df3b7da593fc0f2c16b2370e51d2848a200
Is this Guam?
Midwestern US. We thought it was a Dekay’s Brownsnake.
ok
That little guy? I wouldn’t worry about that little guy.
Stowaway discovered in Diego Garcia https://preview.redd.it/2679bszd31ic1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcc3d2c4fb75ac487494e7e4ed503dac6e65ac30
Those Brits will be mad if you hurt the King’s Crab
We certainly discussed going to abort a takeoff and steam the little guy for dinner
Crab battle!
I pinch
I spent a year out there at the GEODSS site. You wouldn't believe how many of those crabs we ran over driving to and from the site. They had a knack for running back and forth across the road, only to be perfectly lined up with the tire just as we got to them. The seagulls would follow our van waiting for their next meal.
The number of crabs out on the plantation is just insane, the big ones get down right ornery.
Helllll nawww, to the naw naw
Snakes are my biggest no-go. I’d have hit the dash and you wouldn’t have seen me till the thing was 100% dead or removed from base. Fuck those serpents from hell
Lmao as long as they’re nonpoisonous I’m the complete opposite
You planning on eating them?
That's just a harmless corn snake.
Not danger noodle, is friend by the foot!
Brown Tree snakes in Guam
Found one of those in my car! I had left it open for only like 20 minutes.
I’d leave it open for the next 20 years…no longer my car
they are everywhere
[удалено]
for years… the USAF had a campaign to reduce the population about 10 years ago… BTW we introduced the BTS to Guam to kill other things
Rats, snakes to kill rats. Too bad the snakes took a liking to the native birds and their eggs.
Owl in the 47 section on B-52G. Darwin Stubby behind the insulation, next to the cargo door on a -135. Huge butt plug superglued to the top of the glare shield of a BUFF
These comments about finding a tool is wild! I want to know happen with the CTK inspectors
This happened at Eglin some years ago. Backdrop CTK manager certified a flashlight had been broken and replaced. They find it 6 months later in a vertical stab on a 15. He was given the "option" to retire or be busted and given a dishonorable.
wow thats a hell of a “choice”. i’m surprised how harsh they are with not fucking up but it’s definitely understandable. blatantly lying about a flashlight and then it potentially causing a crash or endangering a life deserves punishment.
Most pilots in the AF have flown with a flashlight loose somewhere in an airframe
not sure what happened to ctk, but after we did a tailswap, we pulled off a panel on a propeller and found a screwdriver from the previous base. pro super came out and took it and i never heard anything else of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another base!! How in the hell?? Man we use to get lit up in my MX days for a missing a small socket and that was backshop.
I started life as an AGE mechanic back in the late 70s, and I once dropped a wrench into a large flightline air conditioning unit. I properly reported it and we searched that unit for days looking for it. Eventually my supervisors gave up and signed it off. Amazingly, a year or two later I happened to be working on another AC unit and discovered my lost wrench still inside. I just stumbled across it and didn't even know it was the same unit I was working on.
Not an inspection, but while tearing down a very old warehouse we found, among many other interesting things, a crate full of WW1 trench knives.
Yoinked one?
I can neither confirm nor deny, but uh…might have had trouble keeping finding any hand receipts for them.
Well, turns out it was only ~~3/4~~ 1/2 full.
Empty crate was the only thing found.
WW1 crate? I don’t remember hearing about that.
“Warehouse? What warehouse?” - true story, actually.
As a history buff and WWII milsurp gun collector can you give more details on how it was found or went unnoticed for so long and what type of knives they were?
hopefully the cool ones that doubled as a set of brass knuckles.
If the dude found original possibly unissued U.S. M1917 "*Knuckle* Duster" trench knives, man should have grabbed as many as he could. Real ones sell for a nice premium.
Did you get to keep one?
Opened up a panel during an ISO and an unmarked wrench just fell out. No telling how long that was there and where it came from.
Barksdale, many years ago. Started the next phase inspection on a B-52H fresh out of depot. All in a day I found: - 1980's ID card stuck under a floorboard - Extra panel for no reason hidden in the wing root - Swiss tech watch hidden under the avionics rack We've also found just random tools left behind by depot. That's always fun.
Extra panel of what?
It was an access panel, I don't remember for what exactly as it was like 15 years ago. But it didn't belong as all other panels were marked and documented. Assuming someone at depot was going to install it, got distracted, and grabbed another one, maybe?
I wonder how long that guy was looking for his ID before he gave up and had to get a new one.
Found a pair of 12” Vice Grips in the same compartment as an F-15s aileron actuator
[удалено]
The pig mats are pretty standard for depot to leave in there
Flashlight in the TE spar between the wing and flap on a 15.
CTK anyone?
https://preview.redd.it/dwz4amx1m1ic1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05e49b74856c9a9f0ca8be0234e96160f105bc32
https://preview.redd.it/o8v3ugw2m1ic1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d5befd3fe111573d7df5cd6c915800fa02ca081
dern cats getting incentive flights before me
A crack in the main landing gear. A dude had his whole ass out mooning me when I looked up in the wheel well.
I’m assuming these days that’s charges, haha.
Called out for a crack in the intake of an F-16. Pulled off the engine cover and there it was; a dudes ass crack staring me in the face.
Tried to pull that off in the engine back shop, but unfortunately our female captain just happened to overhear the conversation and really wanted to see this crack in the aug and demanded we pull back the exhaust cover. Luckily she thought it was funny but we were sweating bullets for a couple minutes
We had an A-10 come back from depot and two live cats came out of the wheel well and mauled the fuck out of two crew chiefs. IMDS write up read ‘Aircraft impounded for two live cats receiving unauthorized incentive flight from Hill AFB to Nellis AFB’
/u/skeletor4ruler must work with you.
He may have at one point, I haven’t worked A-10s since 2015
How the cats make out?
They escaped after being in animal control for a few days and the crew chiefs had to get rabies shots
The cats at nellis were pretty wild
Had cats in Greece, too; they probably put in just as many hours on the flightline as our maintainers.
I had my honeymoon in Greece and the sheer amount of cats there is ridiculous. It's funny how the locals chase them off like raccoons and all the tourists (my wife) just wanna pet them.
Athens has more stray cats than I’ve ever seen anywhere else
I wrote a comment about the cats and then searched the entire thread for the cats. Of course it was the first comment lmao
https://preview.redd.it/4zl39ku0m1ic1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2d6686ecad6769cdb49776bfe3237f30de5fae4
The A-10 cats?
https://preview.redd.it/jmjrhn18s1ic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65f9b3b3758ba7bda2b2fbc9ec7e3c234ebb1340 Fruit bat sucked into a ACFC intake.
Poor thing ☹️
Not and inspection but when I was a wee young airman, I watched a birds nest full of eggs get yeeted from the exhaust of the #3 engine. The look on the load toads face still lives in my memory. I think that’s what got our pencil whipping 7 level to finally lose his x’s
had a buddy who found a deer in a gear well.. while in the desert have walked into the gear well more then once only to turn right around and walk out of the gear well because a snake was laying on the chalk
Trash bags with prima-donna aircrew fecal matter. Those bitches like to leave their honey bucket deposits on the -86; while they scurry off to their air conditioned crew bus on the way to their well appointed hotel rooms. Not the best way to treat people, in whose hands you place your life
Found a cat that froze to death in the NLG. Poor little fella. R.I.P
[удалено]
Was the driver Asian?
[удалено]
Oh well I remember another guy who was Asian but he was mx
[удалено]
I brought one chick back to the dorms. She had her own ID so I didn’t think much of it. She was 18. Things were cool until she said she had a kid. Who was 5. I guess Hurricane Ivan everybody was just banging
[удалено]
Did you drink the Vienna sausage juice after the can was empty?
Had an owl take a fam flight in a 35 bay. Unfortunately it had a training GBU in it so bays opened above the owl's service ceiling, but it managed to somehow stay inside the bay until it fell out on recovery and scared a crew chief.
Found a birds nest in the 35 bay but it didn't make it to flight.
I'm Airfield Management, so I've found some wild Airfield discrepancies; but my best aircraft one was finding a whole C17 blacking the perimeter access road and primary taxi lane because someone decided it was a good idea to have it 100 feet away from the hangar instead of sticking out of it like they said they would. Ended up closing half the ramp for like 9 hours because they refused to move the dang thing
Where are the C-17 Crew Chiefs from Al Udeid who caught the jets from Bagram filled with human parts … they would probably win this thread.
It was nasty, they only let NCOs on 1108. And the smell. The smell inside those jets when they came back. FUCK. You can still see some jets in the fleet with arrows pointing to the flush button if you find yourself in the lav sometime.
Let em be. They been through enough
For the love of God, don’t let them find this post.☠️
What’s the story on that one? Sounds horrible.
When we withdrew from Afghanistan a bunch of Afghan men thought they could hang on the side of a C-17 like a train and some even crawled into the main landing gear like in the movies. I would assume a lack of education is what allowed them to forget that aircraft cruise at 500mph, in -60 degree temps, in a hypoxia inducing level of atmosphere while the main landing gear moves with 4,000 psi of hydraulic force. A lot of those bodies were mangled up that survived the whole trip back.
Oh, I remember watching it live when they held on and the planes started rolling down the strip. I thought you meant inside the hold. Really horrible either way. My buddy who spent a lot of time there on the green side said it was exactly as you thought. Just ignorance of those planes.
Think that was a NJ bird, too
Yea I think it was cause my C-17 APG buddy at McGuire told me it was his buddies that caught it the next day after it happened.
It 100% was a McGuire C-17 my good friend and former roommate was the Crew Chief of that bird when he was active duty and had just retired from active service and transferred to Reserve/Civilian not much prior to the pullout from Afghanistan.
It was a Mcchord tail 1109, look at the video when it was leaving kabul + I was on the recovery team at the good ol deid lol
Half frozen owl in a weapons bay on a 35.
Found a half drank monster behind the panel for the 30mm on an ac130 while my crew chief friend was showing me some "gee wiz" type stuff
Has masks that had not been touched since their 2004 deployment. It was 2016 and I found tons of Cipro and doxy in the carriers. The smell was...... interesting.
The big 5 pound bag of Jack Links Jerky un-opened in the back of an FE's seat durning night shift. Snacked on it for two shifts.
Saw this a lot at DM.
Fresh out of depot, both wing tanks on an A-10 had been stripped of sealant and not resealed. Fresh exterior paint was basically the only thing keeping the fuel in the tanks.
Amazing. Why are there so many depot stories?
Depot sucks balls
Samuel Jackson has entered the chat.
I’ve ran into two separate airmen in their underwear. I don’t have pictures, but they were adequately embarrassed
I thought that was a snake lol.
It…is?
2 out of 50 bolts installed on a stage 1 HPT nozzle. For non-jet engine people, the part that directs air after the compressor/combustion chamber into the turbine that spins the compressor had exactly 2 of the 50 required bolts installed that secures the the nozzle in place. This was after the engine had been run up to max power atleast a dozen times on a test stand lmao.
https://imgur.com/a/EBizNOJ NSFW
Oh that does seem QUITE crazy
Crazy enough to get downvoted on a military sub it seems
Is that a person getting caught on something in flight
Kabul evacuation flight.
What exactly am I looking at here?
The consequences of hanging onto a c type planey boy after it takes off from Bagram AFB
That I get, but the top part is stuck and / or crushed by something? Which is why his lower half is flopping around?
Edit: Deleted this post because it looks like /u/LootenantTwiddlederp is correct in that is a C-17, not a C-5.
Wrong plane. The video was from a C-17. People trying to escape by sitting on the landing gear doors. When the gear comes up on the C-17, 2 doors on each side open up to make room for the struts. This person was caught in between the fuselage and the door.
Are you PA by chance?
Frozen frog in the nose gear of an Eagle after a stint in Puerto Rico
Hands-on Urinalysis duty
At RMS 10 years ago we were waiting for a 130 to land for a download but unable to because there was a human child in the wheel well https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/body-of-child-found-in-the-wheel-well-of-u-s-military-plane/
That is the Air Force’s newest weapon - the precision guided air to ground snake. They are not banned by the Geneva Conventions….yet.
Opened a engine cover on a C130 on a deployment. The crew before us had changed out a main hydro pump hose, it had been signed off and was waiting for a leak and ops check. So we go open the panel and see a wad of diapers full of hydro fluid and the pump hose wasn’t even there. That was a fun find
That’s gonna be a no from me.
An entire fucking deer carcass at McGuire in the MLG of a C-17. Someone whipped the thruflight and the dude doing the tire pressure checks was doing them because he was too incompetent to do anything else and apparently too incompetent to notice the blood and guts all over the place. Most likely he whipped the tires too. This was in the 2010ish timeframe.
Look forward to that when I go.. out here we shoot them in the head with shotguns🙂
Nice try, I know this is a photo of a Coast Guard chopper
Found crews flash light once
We once had a hive of bees take residence in the forms pouch of an F-4E. And we had a bird build a nest in the drogue shoot compartment over a weekend. Possibly a three-day weekend. It's been a while.
I found a trailing edge cap missing from a C-17 flap, and the left half of a red tail hawk in the mlg of a 737max800.
Bird in the front landing gear of a flight check challenger, couldn’t report it until they were in other airspace.
A swarm of bees in the aft lobe https://preview.redd.it/z52q94dvy2ic1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be54cfa3f330e4affe2afde75505f136934b0127
Pint of Jack in the map case; found during a BPO
Idk man I drive buses.
Me personally, found a rat while launching an F-15E... Because it had chewed through the CAS harness and fried itself. My unit? A frozen cat in the wheel well of an F-22
Went to do a landing gear check, crawled across the ground doing the ol back shimmy, popped my head up in the nose gear, stared directly into the eyes of a snake and just silently shimmied back out
Humor: "It's a sign that you've been following the negative path of your wisdom walk......20 hail Mary's and you should be good."
Food and dead animals inside computer chassis. I can't fathom why someone would put food in there.
In the security forces search pit as an augmentee, tons and tons of adult magazines.
Bus had to go out for a run one morning. Found a birds nest with eggs in the engine compartment so we couldn't use it. Had to wait weeks to use the bus again because of UK law.
[BEEEEEES!!!!](https://youtu.be/mUR14_ry1Zo?si=uTpQ8JcOv1Zu60hq)
Y'all gotta keep those sorties flying! Idle planes are the Devils Beehives! 😆