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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Red Knight Clean-Up
> >
> > >
> > > My second flying experience that summer was at the controls of a
> > > C-54. I would often go out to base ops and look across the field to
> > > the Coast Guard station, where they had a half dozen SA-16's
> > > (Grumman Albatross). That was my first choice (USAF Air Sea Rescue)
> > > and the C-130 was second. Most of the people in my UPT class had
> > > never heard of the SA-16.
> > >
> >
>
> > I had to look that up, Chris, and it was renamed HU-16, according to
> > Wikipedia. What does the 'HU' designation mean? "Humanitarian",
perhaps?
> >
>
> I don't know why they changed the designation. Might have been
> something to do with the Coast Guard, or some beaureaucrat was looking for
> something to do.
>
I guess I became enamoured with the SA-16 after seeing the movie "Last
Flight from Ashia" (Yul Brenner, Charlton Heston), and which is why I still
refer to it as such. I came away from that movie saying to myself "I gotta
get me one of those." It appears on a daytime movie channel here every so
often and I just watch it and sigh.
The pilots sit on separtate platforms either side of a galleyway that
leads to a door beneath the instrument panel. In a sea anchorage, the
loadmaster goes through the door, opens a hatch in the nose, and tosses out
the anchor. Engine controls are mounted overhead since there is no centre
pedastel.
Chris
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