From: Ron (rojoha@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 07:13:24 PDT
Hmmm.....blue flames out exhaust at night....(harp music in
background...)....
There I was... my first night time flight in a C123 Provider. As it got
dark and I sat in the troop seats watching the water from the rain running
down the deck from the front of the plane past my feet, wondering what the
heck I was doing in this relic from the bone yard, I noticed a circular
orange glow on the floor up front. Curiosity finally got the best of me, so
I unbuckled and walked over to deck area with the glow and looked for the
source. Outside the window was a 10 inch (or larger) diameter exhaust pipe
glowing straw yellow or bright orange with a couple of feet of purplish blue
exhaust gasses snapping out the end. Crew chief said this was normal. Didn't
do much for my confidence in the rig.
But then again, I didn't know they had jet pods on the wings for
assisting in take off that they shut off when they completed climb out,
resulting in a maple leaf falling through the sky like wallow until they got
the nose down. During the climb out the rear cargo loading door/ramp latches
popped loose, leaving us leaning sideways in the seat belts, looking at our
gear strapped to floor and beyond that the runway receding straight down as
we must have been going straight up since it didn't seem to be moving
sideways, just getting smaller.
When we loaded, they kept the engines turning since they had had
problems getting them started at their home field and didn't want to take a
chance shutting them down. And when we were enroute to Wright Pat (still in
the rain, 0200 or so) they lost the main electrical system due to the rain,
so we landed with the inside of the plane in complete darkness, illuminated
by exhaust glow and occasional lightning flashes and watching the pilots and
crew waving red flashlights around in the cockpit. Oh yeah, Air NG aircraft
rides were always something to look forward to....
That's why I have little if any interest in flying in old HMA's... when
my deuce rolls snake eyes, at least coasting to the side of the road doesn't
usually result in screams of " Assume Crash positions" and casts and
squeegees.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 01 June, 2004 08:19
Subject: Re: [MV] identify direct exhaust deviation valve
> This sounds kind of like device that my friends and I used many years ago
to
> make our cars/trucks "sound good" -- <SNIP>
>
> But even now I can remember how my 1957 Ford V8 dual exhaust sounded with
> both covers off, and at night blue flames came out exhaust. -- Maybe a
> contributing factor to my (wife says) hearing loss....
>
>
> Everette
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