One of my brothers was a Navy medical corpsman on aircraft carrier USS
Hornet when it transported the Doolittle raiders and their B-25's from
Alameda to the western Pacific in Apr '45 for raid on Japan; 'gave all of
the Army aircrewmen required shots and got to know some of them before their
launch. He also attended, helped care for, etc., a Navy deck hand who had
an arm severed by a B-25 prop during their engine start, taxi,, etc., during
the launch.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff" <lwb...@yahoo.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - R-4360 First Start...
I got to witness a full power test stand run with a Rolls-Royce jet engine
when the wife worked there a few years ago. A lot of the areas were off
limits due to military security issues, but the test stand area was not. A
friend of our's husband was head of safety for the plant, so between he and
my wife I was able to get to witness a couple of full power run-ups in the
production test stands.
It was pretty cool to watch. A frightening amount of power bolted to the
floor/ground. I asked one of the techs doing the run-up if they had ever
had an engine scatter, and he said they had, and that depending on the
point in the run-up you may or may not have wanted to be present for it.
My Dad claimed to have seen a guy get beheaded by a B-29 when he was
training. He said there were a lot of aircraft on the apron and they were
very close together, with all being in one stage of service or another.
According to him you would get used to all the racket, so if you weren't
paying attention you could just walk into a spinning prop and not even
know it. Apparently this happened to a ground crewman. Dad said it was
pretty grisly.
Dan
On Jul 27, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Scott Ritchey wrote:
I expect danger zones were marked on the floor, or some such. In a
former
life we did an F-15C max fuel-flow test, which involved operating both
engines at max power with the aircraft tied down at the tail hook. As I
recall, those puppies burned 2,000 lb/min each at max power at sea level.
We placed visual marks on the ramp to establish safe zones and I was
standing about 10 ft off the left side. The thing that impressed me most
was the way the low-frequency sound shook your whole body. We used
Navy-style headphones and a microphone to communicate but voice
communication was really not possible so a lot of hand signals were used.
My superintendent of maintenance got concerned that we would pull out the
tail hook so we changed the procedure so only one engine was in max (full
afterburner) at a time. This was about 1978 as I recall. Those were the
days.
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