Shiiiiiiiiit!
> On 26 Jan 15, at 15:06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's a little story that goes with my father and P-38s. He was an
> aircraft mechanic and not a pilot but he did have to move aircraft himself
> from time to time so the mechanics were at least taught how to start and taxi
> an aircraft to a different location.
>
> The mechanics preceded the pilots to Honington in early '44 when the P-38s
> were flown in by transfer pilots. The transfer pilots just left aircraft at
> the end of the runway and left immediately to pick up more aircraft. It was
> up to the mechanics to move the aircraft to their normal parking places. It
> was late at night and my father had moved very many aircraft and was dead
> tired. To move them to the parking spots he had to taxi the aircraft down a
> runway that was lined on both sides with hundreds of drums of aviation gas.
> He was so tired that at one point he fell asleep at the controls and suddenly
> awoke to discover that he was airborne. Fortunately he had not lifted off
> very far nor veered off to the side and into the gas barrels. It could have
> been a really bad and probably fatal accident.
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