I will send them Tom I guess I forgot for people to PM me. Sorry boss. Dang and I need your email address' as I have it save on my computer for the group.
Scott
It is funny hearing about ground crew safety. I guess the USAAF was still learning in those days. How many times have you seen pictures of guys gassing up a plane with no ground wires and fuel gushing from the "over the wing" nozzle. How about homemade engine stands. I did notice they always had a firebottle handy!!! Safety first
have a good one Scott
John
In WWII the ground crews would use high octane gasoline for every thing from cleaning parts and whole airplanes, to removing the summer camouflage from their assigned planes. I remember hearing a pilot on TV talk in tears about the time he told his Crew Chief that it was getting time to remove the summer paint, the next morning when he went to the flight line his fighter plane was natural metal, and his ground crew all had bloody hands! They scrubbed it with gasoline.
Av gas also does wonders for cooling down Beer
Mike
There was a story of an American supply depot being captured in North Africa and the German pilots would take cases of Coke up and get them good and cold and bring them back when the "patrol" was done.
Scott