Mil Mi-26 carrying Tupolev 134 Jet
Discussion
Fat Albert said:
On the Wessex the Captain had an electrical switch on the cyclic to ditch the load and I had a mechanical lever by the door to release the hook.
One of my coursemates was doing Underslung Load training with one of the 1200 lb concrete blocks that we used, transitioning from Shawbury to a confined area site to do the advanced coursework of trying to drop a load in a make-believe German Forest Clearing (the cold war was still on in them days!!)
During transit the captain noticed that the aircraft was suddenly climbing, the crewman peered underneath and found that the entire load was missing! The flew back over their track and couldn't see the load, however a farmer called later on to complain that he had a dead cow with a 1200 lb block on it!!!
Neither the Captain nor the Crewman admitted to chopping the load....must have been an electrical fault in the hook....
LMAO, did that make it into "I learned about flying from that", I used to love reading those stories. One of my coursemates was doing Underslung Load training with one of the 1200 lb concrete blocks that we used, transitioning from Shawbury to a confined area site to do the advanced coursework of trying to drop a load in a make-believe German Forest Clearing (the cold war was still on in them days!!)
During transit the captain noticed that the aircraft was suddenly climbing, the crewman peered underneath and found that the entire load was missing! The flew back over their track and couldn't see the load, however a farmer called later on to complain that he had a dead cow with a 1200 lb block on it!!!
Neither the Captain nor the Crewman admitted to chopping the load....must have been an electrical fault in the hook....
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