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How Low Can You Go
All this reminds me of a deployment back in the early 80's, from Andrews AFB (MD), to Puerto Rico (Rosey Roads NAS):
- We flew a C-130 and lost one of the engines mid-ocean during the fight.
- Pilot feathered the bad engine and took us down to the deck for the remainder of the flight. Got the attention of all of us.
- First-ever flight for a lot of the "country boys" in the unit, and they weren't liking that a whole lot.
- Loadmaster told us the pilot does that because of what I think he called ground effect, flies better low because of air density or something.
Any Airedales here know anything about that?
All this reminds me of a deployment back in the early 80's, from Andrews AFB (MD), to Puerto Rico (Rosey Roads NAS):
- We flew a C-130 and lost one of the engines mid-ocean during the fight.
- Pilot feathered the bad engine and took us down to the deck for the remainder of the flight. Got the attention of all of us.
- First-ever flight for a lot of the "country boys" in the unit, and they weren't liking that a whole lot.
- Loadmaster told us the pilot does that because of what I think he called ground effect, flies better low because of air density or something.
Any Airedales here know anything about that?
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