Author Topic: Read something pretty funny.... (Read 617 times)

YUCCA · « **on:** September 02, 2003, 01:38:34 PM »

Was in a bookstore reading a portion of this book about a pilot in the pacific. He said he was back at base and they finally got some beer. He said that the Aussie beer was hot so they put the beer in a droptank and flew it in a p38 around 30k for a few mins then came back down and all had ice cold beer lol.

T0J0 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 02, 2003, 02:41:12 PM »

Boys and their love of beer was taken to new heights that day!!
When he said he was going on a beer run he wasn't kidding..

T0j0

slimm50 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 02, 2003, 04:01:45 PM »

Couldn't do that today, though. The cans are are such thin wall they'd 'spolde. Back then they were much sturdier guage.

Bluedog · « **Reply #3 on:** September 02, 2003, 06:34:50 PM »

In Tommy Blackburn's "Jolly Rogers" book about VF-17 they do this too. They have to move from one island strip to another, and all their transports were full, and they figured if they sent their stash of beer on a ship, they would never see it again.
So, they took all the ammo out of one fifty cal from each wing of each of their Hogs, and used the empty ammo cans to load 2 cases of beer per fighter.
Just before landing, they went up to 30k for 10 minutes, landed, and handed their delighted ground crews an ice cold beer each.
Would have made them immensely popular with the ground staff at the new strip I would reckon

Nomde · « **Reply #4 on:** September 02, 2003, 07:21:37 PM »

Yucca,
I read the 56th FG at Boxted England used to mix up the ingredients for ice cream ina cleaned drop tank and do the same, instant ice cream for all

troxel · « **Reply #5 on:** September 02, 2003, 07:34:16 PM »

Jeret occasionally did the same when he was in Southeast Asia in the late 60s (beer that is, not ice cream).

palef · « **Reply #6 on:** September 02, 2003, 09:02:50 PM »

Johhny Johnson (I think) used to pick up barrels of beer and fly them back to Europe (post D-Day) attached to the wing bomb racks on a Spitfire.

palef

RTR · « **Reply #7 on:** September 02, 2003, 11:46:24 PM »

The Beer barrels on the hardpoints on the Spit was a fella by the name of Art Hewet I believe. He flew with 441 SQN and I think ASW has a picture of his spit with the beer attached (in flight too LOL).
Reminds me of being in the Airforce in 1980. There was a beer strike in Alberta, and we used to send a Tbird (T33) on a "nav exersize" from the base in Cold Lake, to Comox (on Vancouver Island) every Friday morning. The beer always showed up cold

Was always amazed at how much beer you could pack into the nose of those old birds hehe.
Cheers,
RTR

TheCage · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2003, 12:06:47 AM »

I have a book which has a picture of a B-25 pilot that was flying in the buff. Not sure if it was in the Burma or African area, but the book stated that it was common because of the heat for pilots to do that. Can you imagine getting shot down and having to bail out in the buff.......OUCH!

Steve · « **Reply #9 on:** September 03, 2003, 01:04:31 AM »

Bleh.. this thread went from cold beer to naked guys.. please get it back on track!

AHGOD · « **Reply #10 on:** September 03, 2003, 01:34:12 AM »

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Originally posted by TheCage
I have a book which has a picture of a B-25 pilot that was flying in the buff. Not sure if it was in the Burma or African area, but the book stated that it was common because of the heat for pilots to do that. Can you imagine getting shot down and having to bail out in the buff.......OUCH!

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Jackal1 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 03, 2003, 07:00:35 AM »

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Originally posted by palef
Johhny Johnson (I think) used to pick up barrels of beer and fly them back to Europe (post D-Day) attached to the wing bomb racks on a Spitfire.

palef

Finaly . A use for the Spit.

TheCage · « **Reply #12 on:** September 03, 2003, 05:50:58 PM »

AHGOD don't look in the mirror, you may not like what you see. Back at ya!

hogenbor · « **Reply #13 on:** September 04, 2003, 05:19:36 AM »

Heard a rumour once that in the Royal Dutch airforce some guy did something along the same lines... he overloaded an NF-5 jet fighter with personal stuff and couldn't take off anymore.

How you possibly can do that I wouldn't know but maybe he had beer in his droptanks too