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I have always heard that changing your door art could be bad mojo. I am starting to believe it. Take the case of our aircraft 78-632. It was the jet with the Mighty Mouse on the door. Recently the crew chief, now known as Shleprock, changed the door art to a Michael Dooney painting called No Angel. Its a nice door no doubt but the jet is rebelling. To list the the number of code threes in rapid succession would fill a volume. It breaks evry where it goes and everytime it goes up. Last week it came to a head. One of our jets painted in the Red Sox logos (78-644) went up to Fort Drumm to shoot the gun. The gun links came apart filling the belly with casings and shells including a bent one that got jammed in the gun. Guess what was reading on the rounds counter in the cockpit when it landed ? You got it.................632. The clincher came this wekend at the airshow. We love having the Mad Bomber do the pyro for our A10 demos. This year we paid for a 2000 foot wall of fire. All the little bombs went off and it looked good. When the four ship flew over for the big kaboom, 632 broke out of formation to make the low level pass simualating the drop and guess what happened ? Yeah your right ..................all of the bags of gas blew up. BUT THEY DIDNT BLOW UP !!!!!!!!! There was a 2000 fot wall of atomized gas that floated around and then settled onto the grass. Then it caught fire on the grass about 30 seconds later. It was a freakin fizzle. I believe with all my heat that jets have personalities. You crew dogs know what I am saying dont ya ? All we can do is laugh at the No Angel door art. It should be called She Devil instead.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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Damn Skippy they have personalities. Had one jet a Shaw that I sware hated me. Everytime I even came close to her she started leaking hyd. fluid all over the place.

Then while at Pope we had one that hated being sent to the wash rack, Everytime she got all cleaned up she was guarenteed to come back Code 3.

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Exotic sports cars are the same way, i can assure you.

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You just gotta know where to rub them. 278 liked it right between F-45 and the tail cone during launch. If I gave her a quick rub before heading up to check the heat she was great.

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Hawg166, I think most believe as you do, if they are willing say so openly or not. I think it was BD who told a story of "The Grimlin" and when it's door was move to another aircraft guess what...that plane started coming home code3 until the door was moved back.

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I know that maintaners agree whole heartedly. I just say it like I do for those that arent maintaners or pilots and havent experienced it first hand. It realy is quite funny how a machine can take on a life of its own. But by golly they do.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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I believe in superstitions wholeheartly. I have been doing mechanical work since I was 14 and I have traditions and superstitions that I have tested and held onto all these years. This summer I had an Engineering Internship and I carried on the suppositions. The engineers did not like it at all and made me stop. Which I did not like too much. But I was getting payed enough not to challenge. It seems the engineers are "educated" enough not to believe in superstitions, But I know that if I do not up hold the superstition the project will not work properly. I find that most of my Brother Rats who are engineers have done little if not any real mechanical work in the lives. So after college they have no experience of what is really like to work on machines so they don't believe, and it's sad.



Edited by - flyboy on Aug 30 2005 6:33 PM

Its a fact I'll never question,Aircraft are like "People or Pets",
When you talk to your jet before it flies in the morning while petting it or Cuss at it calling it names when she breaks your doing it and believe it too,maybe without thinking.
Sometimes the Jet will tell you whats wrong with it,without TEMS codes or a TO troubleshooting.
You upset the Jet she'll pay you back in spades!

But then you can do things which are "Strange "
I had the old girl "BLESSED" With Holy water by Father Ray on TDY IN 86 To keep her safe and always come home,because if she came home,the pilot did too.

GW1 I always ended the com cord with ,'Check six and dont worry Boss,she knows the way home"

1 mission where that was true,when the pilot got home,calling CODE 3,
radio's out,the radio's went out over the target,but using hand signals he followed his lead,they hit the targets on the first pass,he was comming off his second run when all the sudden
"BREAK LEFT" came across the Radio, the Captain broke left all he saw was a smoke trail of the SAM going to his right.
He thought his radio's were working again but never came back on only that "BREAK LEFT".
When they got out the Capt said "Holy Shit! good thing you saw that SAM and said "Break Left" his wingman said "I never said Break Left,I saw it as it passed you I thought you saw it your radio was dead?

Radio's were dead on the ground still.

Capt said "Someone said BREAK LEFT,so I did or your Jet would of been toast Goose"
I told him"It wasnt your Wingman,It was the " Old'Girl" telling you,I told you she would bring you home"no other way of explaining it
Some Doubter's changed their minds that day

I even sent "Father Ray" a letter telling him "The Holy Water worked!"

Thats a True no Bullshit story,

SO JETS DO HAVE SPRITS,OR an ANGEL,or the pilots Angel talks to the "Jets" Angel one or both but I'll never believe differant.

Goose



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Great story Goose, I'll keep that one for Halloween to post on my site...if you don't mind.

Ugly But Well Hung

Wow that is amazing Goose. Great story and I am glad your jet saved the pilot and came home safe.

Fender
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and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
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The story was put into the 76th's OP's log.




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I admit that I can be superstitious like that. For instance, I have a policy to never talk negatively about my car in its presence. When I deviate from this policy, my cars are unhappy with me, and go "code 3" too.

It ain't the heat it's the humility.

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You forgot to mention 632's fuel ID going bad yesterday too! Funny story though Billy! One of these days poor Mikey is going to have a breakdown from all the shit that happens to his plane! With all of this paranoia about door art, what are we going to do about 642 ? The "Scooby" era is long gone and will never ever be with us ever again thank God! She is about 200 hours out of phase I believe, but its time to start brainstorming because we need to get some cool shit back on mine and BP's jet!



Edited by - Hawg78642 on Aug 31 2005 4:56 PM

Edited by - Hawg78642 on Aug 31 2005 4:57 PM

I guess if he (the CC) believes the aircraft is rebeling it would be time to have a heart to heart talk with 632 and explain why Might Mouse had to go. If that doen't work have the new door moded to look a bit more "devilish" to match it's new personality.

Ugly But Well Hung

Maybe it just needs a good belly rub.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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