DAY 150 - 14 JANUARY 1991 - The War could start Tomorrow...
DAY 150 - 14 JANUARY 1991
If all goes by schedule, the War will start tomorrow. We'll see how that turns out!
I crawled into work about 1500. We really blew a good opportunity here.
There are some flight control linkage "bell crank supports" that transmit the flight control movements up from the flight control closet up to the forward controls. They would be really easy to work on when the transmission was out of the way, so we had one of those rare opportunites. But no... FUCK Damnit! The Day Check crew was fixing something else that completely didn't matter today. This is only a sore point for me, because I once lost 2 days of being drunk and happy in the Philippines fixing this same problem on another helo, last year. Ok, anyway right?
So I jumped in there, knowing these parts were getting close to being worn out and did as much work as I could before the mechs got ready to hang the new transmission. Of course they didn't want to wait for me to get finished what would have been probably 20 minutes of work, so now its going to take a few hours from the wrong side. Ok, thinking happy thoughts, at least I got it taken apart, so that did make it easier right? I didn't bleed nearly as much this time as I did last time I did this job...
While we had everything apart, we also changed out most of the rod end bearings on the push pull tubes, but didn't have enough spares to do all of them.... for the want of a nail... as the saying goes right?
We all secured at 2230, and it was straight to bed. Tomorrow starts way too early, and the word is we'll be moving a whole cargo hold full of cluster bombs to one of the carriers, which is likely to really fuck up someones day, when the shooting starts. If you're not familiar with Cluster Bombs... think of the difference between a gun that shots a regular bullet, that you actually have to hit your target to do any real damage, ok? Then you look at a shot gun that shoots multiple "bullets" at the same time, in a scatter pattern right? Well, a Cluster bomb does about the same thing. you drop one bomb, an then as it falls, the clam shell opens up, and a lot of smaller bombs get spread out and... well, its just not something you want to see coming at you ok? They were testing these when I worked at China Lake, and lets just say the video, in slow motion, is very impressive.
If all goes by schedule, the War will start tomorrow. We'll see how that turns out!
I crawled into work about 1500. We really blew a good opportunity here.
There are some flight control linkage "bell crank supports" that transmit the flight control movements up from the flight control closet up to the forward controls. They would be really easy to work on when the transmission was out of the way, so we had one of those rare opportunites. But no... FUCK Damnit! The Day Check crew was fixing something else that completely didn't matter today. This is only a sore point for me, because I once lost 2 days of being drunk and happy in the Philippines fixing this same problem on another helo, last year. Ok, anyway right?
So I jumped in there, knowing these parts were getting close to being worn out and did as much work as I could before the mechs got ready to hang the new transmission. Of course they didn't want to wait for me to get finished what would have been probably 20 minutes of work, so now its going to take a few hours from the wrong side. Ok, thinking happy thoughts, at least I got it taken apart, so that did make it easier right? I didn't bleed nearly as much this time as I did last time I did this job...
While we had everything apart, we also changed out most of the rod end bearings on the push pull tubes, but didn't have enough spares to do all of them.... for the want of a nail... as the saying goes right?
We all secured at 2230, and it was straight to bed. Tomorrow starts way too early, and the word is we'll be moving a whole cargo hold full of cluster bombs to one of the carriers, which is likely to really fuck up someones day, when the shooting starts. If you're not familiar with Cluster Bombs... think of the difference between a gun that shots a regular bullet, that you actually have to hit your target to do any real damage, ok? Then you look at a shot gun that shoots multiple "bullets" at the same time, in a scatter pattern right? Well, a Cluster bomb does about the same thing. you drop one bomb, an then as it falls, the clam shell opens up, and a lot of smaller bombs get spread out and... well, its just not something you want to see coming at you ok? They were testing these when I worked at China Lake, and lets just say the video, in slow motion, is very impressive.
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