Monday, July 13, 2009

On the Flight Line

You've probably asked yourself what goes on during a NATO competition among the fighter forces. You've wondered how everyone gets into the competitive spirit and how the national discipline manifests among the various allied nations. You may not have ever been on a flight line filled with dozens of multi-million dollar high performance jets taxiing through narrow taxiways and among the crowds of maintenance vehicles.

The answer is we use marshallers. And, this is how they do it:



And, on a cold day, a good crew chief can always get his hands warmed with the help of a passing jet.

3 comments:

Buzz Barron said...

Let's think about this, CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE HAD PULLED THAT JIVE TURKEY STUFF ON ANY OF OUR FLIGHTLINES?????? Excuse me but you always got a chrispy salute and a big thumbs up...what more can a driver ask? One o' them Kick the Tires and light the Fires...

Uh, this may be one of the factors in our defeat of the Brits...

Ed Rasimus said...

Note that it was a bomb-competition and was done to raise money for charity. I doubt that the RAF entertains like that at home plate.

There was however, a well-endowed female crew-chief we had at Torrejon who gave great taxi.

Buzz Barron said...

A bomb competition for charity. Cool.

I'd seen this before and was amazed especially when they started with Americans...funny stuff.

I'm not sure what to think about the big boobed CC...amazing, we didn't have to deal with that problem... Hell, I remember when there were stewardesses, and they were pretty. A CC with boobs...