ScottsGT wrote in post #10384206
My Dad was a Loadmaster on the old 124's. He told me a story one day while we were at the Air Force Museum about one of the guys on board crawled out into the tunnel and lifted the door and hung halfway out trying to get one of the nurses on board to go take care of him. Apparently they were transporting a plane full of nurses somewhere. Dad started out in the Berlin Airlift and was the second Loadmaster to make CMSgt in the USAF. He designed a lot of equipment used in todays Air Force that a lot of people take for granted. The wratcheting tie down strap, load pallets, the truck that lifts the pallets into the aircraft. He was the FIRST Loadmaster to ever put a load on a C-130. He actually broke the plane's floor, arguing with the design engineer about it taking the load. Lots of undocumented storys he has told us, and we never could get him to write anything down, or record it. he's still with us, but the memory is fading fast....
My Dad was a Loadmaster on the old 124's. He told me a story one day while we were at the Air Force Museum about one of the guys on board crawled out into the tunnel and lifted the door and hung halfway out trying to get one of the nurses on board to go take care of him. Apparently they were transporting a plane full of nurses somewhere. Dad started out in the Berlin Airlift and was the second Loadmaster to make CMSgt in the USAF. He designed a lot of equipment used in todays Air Force that a lot of people take for granted. The wratcheting tie down strap, load pallets, the truck that lifts the pallets into the aircraft. He was the FIRST Loadmaster to ever put a load on a C-130. He actually broke the plane's floor, arguing with the design engineer about it taking the load. Lots of undocumented storys he has told us, and we never could get him to write anything down, or record it. he's still with us, but the memory is fading fast....
Tell him that we Thank Him for his Service!!
