| Funny Jet Fighter Stories and Jokes (III) |
compilots writes "
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Used only once.
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Many years ago when I had the opportunity of taking some cross training with Maritime Command of the RCAF, I chose to fly on an Argus patrol. An Argus patrol aircraft is a four engine (avgas) prop aircraft derived from the Bristol Brittania. It had the same wings and tail, but the body was a maritime patrol bomber with a large plexiglass nose and radar beneath the nose.
The one trip I remember was off Canada's eastern coast and the exercise was to detect any Russian submarine with the secondary mission of detecting and plotting any Russian spy ship masquerading as a fishing boat. The trip was pretty uneventful for the major part, but we did find a Russian spy ship. There were a lot of Russian fishing vessels, but this boat had so many antennaes, that you knew it wasn't there for the fishing.
The nav suggested I join him in the nose to see first hand to see what the crew did to have some fun. The Argus passed over the vessel and proceeded a considerable distance beyond the vessel, made a 180 turn and descended to about a hundred feet over the water. The flight engineer had throttled back all the engines so the props were turning over just enough to keep us airborne safely. As we were just about to pass over the Russian vessel just above his antennae, the nav gave the command to the flight engineer for full power. As soon as the power was rammed on, the props gave a huge burst of energy that most of the antennae on the ship were broken. We definitely could see this on our second pass as the seamen were shaking their fists at us while we were laughing.
They couldn't put in an official report as they would have to admit just what sort mission they were on.
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