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CAP Black · 09-26-2013, 11:48 PM

I made a lot of trips in the "Gooney Bird"; From Orlando AFB to White Sands, NM and trips over Europe during the early 1960's. On one trip I remember, we had engine problems, so we feathered one engine and poured the coal to the other. After arriving and the mechanics checked her over, we were babying the wrong engine. She took the lickin' and kept on tickin'.
Jack

09-26-2013, 11:48 PM	#11
CAP Black User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fairmont, WV Right here in Mountaineer country and God's country Posts: 767 Thanks: 100 Thanked 174 Times in 96 Posts	I made a lot of trips in the "Gooney Bird"; From Orlando AFB to White Sands, NM and trips over Europe during the early 1960's. On one trip I remember, we had engine problems, so we feathered one engine and poured the coal to the other. After arriving and the mechanics checked her over, we were babying the wrong engine. She took the lickin' and kept on tickin'. Jack