Air tanker crashes while battling Utah blaze

Damit RIP the third fatal crash down there. I used to fill those planes up with fuel at the BLM tanker base in KCDC some great crews work those tankers.
 
Yeah, I don't know which aircraft it was, but Neptune had been flying out of Prescott all last month. Very sad.
 
Another one of the Neptune's P2Vs also made an emergency landing today at KMEV when it's left mainmount failed to extend. Sister aircraft and same company of the accident aircraft. Bad day all around.
 
Now I'm glad that my old man, a former Navy P2V pilot, didn't take my advice to go fly for them. I know last time we flew through there together ~ 10 years ago, he copied down the BUNO's on some of their birds that were awaiting paint, and found after reviewing his logbooks, that he had flown several of them as a young JO back in the '60's.
 
Met a neptune guy at the airport in Charlotte a couple months ago waiting for my flight, he saw my uniform shirt and we chatted for a while, he was headed to tanker 44 in Chattanooga.

Real nice guy. My thoughts to their whole crew.



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///AMG said:
Now I'm glad that my old man, a former Navy P2V pilot, didn't take my advice to go fly for them. I know last time we flew through there together ~ 10 years ago, he copied down the BUNO's on some of their birds that were awaiting paint, and found after reviewing his logbooks, that he had flown several of them as a young JO back in the '60's.
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Imagine though if he had taken the job. It would be kind of cool to fly something that you once flew 50 years ago. I remember a story, I think it was here, about a guy who had worked/flown something in WWII. He ended up re-uniting with it in his 80's IIRC, and gave they guys restoring it a detailed report of how to do certain thing maint. wise that they couldn't figure out.
 
mshunter said:
Imagine though if he had taken the job. It would be kind of cool to fly something that you once flew 50 years ago. I remember a story, I think it was here, about a guy who had worked/flown something in WWII. He ended up re-uniting with it in his 80's IIRC, and gave they guys restoring it a detailed report of how to do certain thing maint. wise that they couldn't figure out.
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This thread, by chance?

http://forums.jetcareers.com/thread...m-vet-still-going-strong.116381/#post-1607682
 
mshunter said:
Imagine though if he had taken the job. It would be kind of cool to fly something that you once flew 50 years ago. I remember a story, I think it was here, about a guy who had worked/flown something in WWII. He ended up re-uniting with it in his 80's IIRC, and gave they guys restoring it a detailed report of how to do certain thing maint. wise that they couldn't figure out.
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Yeah, it probably would have been cool for him. That said, the old man is way too practical for that kind of thing. And truthfully, I'm glad he wasn't gone during the summers when I was a kid.....those would have been times that I will never get back, now that I only see him and my mom maybe twice a year. Had it been me though, I'd have taken it in a hearbeat, but then again I don't have kids, and I don't have the cush upper management job he had before he retired, all things that could probably make a guy reconsider the greener grass.
 
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