Originally published at: Airforce C-130 crew punished for using airplane to pickup crew member's classic BMW motorcycle | Boing Boing
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Cool quote from the article:
The aircraft was spotted by local residents eating lunch at a restaurant near the airport,
What, I wonder, does an aircraft eat for lunch.
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Ducatis.
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I assume it eats tiny picks of honey roasted peanuts.
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When we can’t fly a $10,000 per hour of operation military plane on personal errands, the commies have already won.
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French flies
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That’s nothing, I saw waste beyond all belief when I was in the military, these guys are pikers.
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All the way from Mississippi is 4 hours by my math (estimating speed at 350mph), I hope it was a side trip on the way to Hanscom or something, because if they just went up and back that’s WILD.
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Article says they flew the bike back to Mather out side of controversial San Francisco Bay Area suburb Sacramento.
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hardly a harley
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Call me a hardliner, but I was disappointed to discover they landed the C-130 at an actual airport.
Had they landed in a meadow adjoining the the house where the bike was kept, that would be cool!
C-130s weren’t built for airports.
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One of our C-130s decided to drop off the jumpmaster near the barracks (there was ample room on the exercise grounds for a lightly loaded C-130). Alas, it had been raining a lot previously, so the plane just sank into the grass and got stuck, totally, so it took weeks to dig it up, replace the bottom plating, and get it over to the runway. The greens were ruined for much of the following year!
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It’s basically a strip of bumpy grass there. No pavement, little room to maneuver, right on the shore.
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Perfect!
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Known as a Maximum Effort Landing , the C-130 can operate in and out of dirt strips that measure 3000 feet long by 50 feet wide. For comparison, a similar size commercial jet airliner uses a paved runway that is at least 6000 feet long and 150 feet wide.
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