'Reminds me: On one of the trips to Greenland on C-141 from McGuire, NJ.,
flight steward handed out foam ear plugs about engine-start time. A
civilian in from of me put his in his mouth and chewed 'em -- thought they
were chewing gum.
Wilt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Cargo plane crash Afghanistan
Some people get disoriented/sick easily facing backwards so that config
probably would not work on civilian aircraft. I guess military people
don't get disoriented? That would be hard on a navigator, end up flying
the wrong direction or something.
Speaking of which, there was an interesting show on last night about
German officers the Brits had "imprisoned" at some old manor houses, and
they had bugged all the spaces to listen to their conversations, got a lot
of intel that way. One of the things that was most interesting (to me
anyway) was that they learned some details about then hacked the German
radio nav beacon system to cause their planes to fly off course, some
turned around and landed on Brit airfields, they had some officers whose
planes got confused that way (or maybe they were actually defecting, not
clear).
--R
On 5/2/13 9:59 AM, WILTON wrote:
C-141's that I flew on back and forth to Greenland coupla times had
rearward-facing passenger seats.
'Got to feel what an electronic warfare officer on a B-52 feels in
flight - bassackward.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Dillon"
<meadedil...@bellsouth.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Cargo plane crash Afghanistan
I wonder why commercial airlines don't use that seat orientation?
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote:
That's so when you crash you might survive
--R
On 5/1/13 6:44 PM, Max Dillon wrote:
I rode a C-2 catapult shot off USS Enterprise a few years ago; seats
faced aft.
Also rode in a C-5 from Italy to Norfolk once, same seat orientation.
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