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AC bite?

By AC bite, I mean any injury from an aircraft.

My worst came from an A-10. We were loading BDU-33's at night down at DM. One one bird, the flaps had been left in a lowered possition, and the lightall was in a bad place. I was walking out from under the bird to get another bomb, that was staged at the rear of the AC. I walked smack into the under side of that flap. I hit it so hard, it knocked me right on my butt. Next thing I knew, half my crew was helping me to my feet, laughing their collective a$$es off. Carried a real nice rasberry for a couple of weeks after that one, and I still to this day, don't remember hitting the gound.

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Worst AC bite, raised up under the maveric fin and had about a 10 in scratch down my back. While this may be lame in comparison to some the worst part of it was trying to explane to my wife how I got it, because it sure looked like it would have been caused by something else.

Now the worst non fatal ac bite i've witnessed was on the F-16 by one of my co-workers. He attempted to look in the fire access door just below the JFS after engine start. Only problem was he was approx 8\" to high and placed his hand on the actual exhaust door.

I smacked my head on the little do-hickey they use to lock the F-117 trapeze in the up position. It's got a taper on it, and makes a nice edge. I somehow managed to avoid all the sharp corners though. Just that little thing to stick the speed handle in. Gives you a nice cut, too. Never needed stiches though.

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When I was a brand new FNG I was under the fwd fuselage facing aft just behind the lower UHF/TACAN antenna (Crew Chief Killer) and I turned around to talk to someone else and exactly as I finished turning my forehead met the antenna. It wasn't too bad, especially in comparison to some other heads I've seen split way open on the same spot, but it still drew blood from me.

Anyone ever walk between two lowered flaps and catch the corners in your collarbones? .....OUCH.

I was a three level autopilot guy at the beach working A-7s. My first redball. Swap out the yaw computer and the jet was good to go. I'm running out from under the jet, toolbox and part in hand. I was straightening up, going full bore and RAN into a bomb rack. The top of my head still looks like someones
crackhead grandma stitched it.

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This is one I actually caused to my supervisor one night.

In the late '70s at DM, especailly working nights, we had A-10 Calls we'd fire back and forth between squadrons. Not sure if this is still done these days, but an A-10 Call is accomplished by hoisting your head up to the muzzle of the GAU-8A, pressing your lips to one of the barrels and blowing into it like you would a tuba. It makes this great tone like the old Viking horns in the movies. If somebody down at the 333rd would blow one, then somebody up at the 358th or 357th would call back. Late at night, the sound would really carry well.

One night, we'd just finished a gun system install in a hanger queen. We were standing around while our supervisor, his head up between the hydrolic motors and the ammo drum, was inspecting the safety wire on the bolts and the install of the chutes.

I just happend to be standing up by the nose when I heard this long, loud BRWAAAAAAAAAAAT from down at the 333rd. Without giving it a thought, I hoisted myself up and called back. My returned call sounded more like this:

\"BRWAAA/BAM!\" and suddenly from inside the gun's bay, I heard \"SH!!!!T!\" I guess it kind of startled my supervisor, and he jerked his head back and smacked into one of the ribs.

Well, he was more Pissed than I'd ever seen him before, and it was all I could do to keep a straight face while he b!tched me out.

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I remember some of us \"blowing on the pipes\" late at night!

You can only sit in your cockpit, running the apu listening to baseball and running the a/c before someone has you shut it down!

I've got a number of Phantom bites in my back. Gladly none ever required stitches, a couple might have needed 1 or 2, but I never went for any.

Cant say I ever had a bad Hog Bite. Wordt I hurt myself working hogs, was one night at England AFB, we were finishing getting ready to go to Patrick AFB for a couple weeks.
It was late, we had just finished, and were walking off the flight line.
Still dont remember why, but there was a forklift sitting along the red rope. We saw the sky cops heading our way and ran to get across the red ropes (not at the e.c.p.) and into the amu.
Well for some dumbass reason I went to jump the forks rather than going around, and the forks werent all the way on the ground. I kicked the fork with my right foot, wedging my foot under the fork!
Bad bruising, and a foot the size of a softball.............I think all the beer at Patrick made that one feel alot better!!

Worst Hog bite I ever saw was in the 75th @ England AFB. I forget his name now, a Msgt in Weapons in the AMU.
Spanish guy, real nice guy. He had his hand in the belt system, working on the gun and someone leaned on the handle that drives the belt. It wasn't pinned and pulled him into the belt system.
This happened just before I got there, but if I remember correctly, they said it took like 2 1/2 hours to get him out of the belt drive and to the hospital.
He lost some fingers, and his thumb on his right hand was replaced with the big toe from his right foot.

Not really duty related, but, also served with a guy at Nellis, engine guy, who I think was said to be the only active duty amputee at the time.
He was on the Thunder Chickens and had returned home from a trip. He was leaving base on his motorcycle and got run down going thru the intersection. He lost a leg from the knee down.