Random thoughts

**pomtzu** · 02-27-2010, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Ok...I'll bite

It was that saucer thingy on the roof that got full of snow, and he crash landed....right ????

No - you have to get off the ground to crash land.

Come on Bill - you can add more humor to it since it was your "incident".

**wombat2u2004** · 02-27-2010, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by pomtzu

No - you have to get off the ground to crash land.

Come on Bill - you can add more humor to it since it was your "incident".

You mean.......the wheels fell off ????

**kokopup** · 02-27-2010, 02:01 PM

Actually we came into Quonset from Norfolk where the ship was having some repairs. I ended up going with out proper permission. We landed in Quonset that evening and parked the plane, and folded it's wings. During the night they received the worst blizzard that they had recieved in 56 years. There was 36" with 10 foot drifts. Needless to stay we were stuck in Quonset and I was there without permission from my Unit leader. It took over a week before we could defrost the plane enough to unfold the wings. Luckily I had a great relationship with my Unit leader and he covered for me while I was AWOL. He couldn't fly and Navigate so I usually flew and Navigated for him when he had the fly duty. The Navy says that all shipboard Naval aviators have to be able to fly & navigate the COD. So I was covering for him since he really couldn't fly the plane. I even had to start the stupid thing for him.