Trip Report to the USA Part 2

[andrew evans]

8th We returned back to the Write Patterson AFB Museum to finish it off and I also bought lunch and sat at the end of the runway. The only movement was a Cessna 152 doing circuits but we could clearly see 5 C5 Galaxy’s parked on the apron.

[andrew evans]

9th Our next destination was New York on a Delta CRJ30 FROM Dayton Ohio to Detroit we had a 50 min lay over for our connecting flight to new York on a Delta 737-800.Once again no probe’s with check in and baggage arrived in New York at 1100 had to get a shuttle bus to the car hire place and we drove up to see the Orange County choppers display center. We did see Paul senior and Rick and some of the managers walking around in the work shop but you are viewing them from behind glass so you can’t talk to them and they can’t see you.
This machine was the transfer from Terminal to Terminal.It was good as you see everything around you and take some pics.

[andrew evans]

South African A340

Orange County choppers Paul senior


10th We did all the touristy stuff statue of liberty, time square etc.We did go to the USS Intrepid Air and Space Museum. That was good they had a BA Concord next to it. You could walk through the Bridge of the aircraft carrier and they also had some displays and interactive games in the hanger deck of the ship. They also had some flight Sims there to.And there was an Old Submarine.

[andrew evans]

[andrew evans]

11th We attended the 911 ceremony. The weather was bad it was cold raining and we could not see or hear a thing so we decided to head off early to Washington DC via Dover air force base. Another great museum from the US Air force. They had displays outside and some more inside as well as flight Sims and audio testimonials from past air force members. There was this great guy named Bob a Vietnam veteran who was a navigator for the c-130.He took us in the c130 on display sat us down and walked us through what would happen in dropping cargo and troops out of the aircraft the way he was telling us it was like we were doing it. He told us one story they had to drop some 6 pallets of budweiser beer at the front line on approach they tried to make radio contact with the airfield with no response, they tried again no response so they dropped to about 50m off the ground and buzzed the camp he said that, that woke everyone up. After that they made radio contact and they were advised that there was enemy in the area and it was up to the captain to make the drop. They had no parachutes they had to land to off load it. After consulting the Pilot (officer) they decided to go ahead and land. After they had landed they taxied around dropped the rear cargo door and whilst the plane was taxing the Load master released the load and the load dropped out the back once the load was empty the cargo door went straight up they then taxied out and took off he said it took around 40 seconds to empty the load and that was his quickest off load ever. What a story he said he had plenty of them but we could not stay we had to go but he did serve in Vietnam for 4-5 years so he would have some great stories. There was some movement there we saw 3 C-5 Galaxy’s land and a C-17 depart but we could see around 20 C-5’s parked on the Apron.

[andrew evans]