Crew Chief pre-flight Inspection of the B-24 Bomber -1943
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2014
- Complete pre-flight inspection of a B-24 from the ground crew's perspective, Crew Chief Kelly & the boys do a thorough check inside & out in a point by point inspection of the big Liberator. Get this video & three more, plus a B-24 pilot's manual, on our “Flying the B-24” DVD.” bit.ly/1tmOmvw
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My uncle was a flight line mechanic in England, North Africa and Sicily. He told me that they put a light film of oil on all of the prop blades each evening. This enabled them to see any stress cracks in those same blades the following morning's inspection. He also told me that if a plane had Pratt and Whitney engines and suffered engine damage due to flak or gun fire that that plane was not likely to return from a mission, but if the plane had Wright Cyclone engines that the plane would more than likely return even with severe engine damage. This was due to the different lubrication systems used. The Pratt and Whitney used a pressure lubrication system and that system would feed an engine fire where as the Wright Cyclone engines were splash lubricated which would less likely feed a fire. He told me that he had seen several planes return with battle damage and that he had seen Wright engines with several cylinder heads knocked off and the engine still running on the intact cylinders.
My dad was in the same theaters. He was a crew chief in the 98th bomb group. His planes flew on the Ploesti raids. Lost several planes in Oran, North Africa and Beri , Italy. Wound up staying for 25 years so he was in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
they also added wood blocks to save on the tail skids with new pilots trying to hard to get off with a combat overload.....
and tried to remind the new guys not to takeoff with the gear handle selected up at the start of the takeoff roll - had to get the gear up right now so the inexperienced would ride the safety squat switch so as soon as you broke free of the runway the wheels would start coming up- unless ya hit a bump
Just an amazing piece of history here! Not much different in the basics; I was a C130 crew chief for 24 years...have ultimate respect for those who came before me. Thank you for sharing this.
This is a pretty early Liberator given the location of the pitot masts low down on the sides of the fuselage!
My uncle was flight engineer on a B-24. He had a hotshot pilot who crashed the plane, killing everyone on board except the radio operator.
Ship shape Sarge? Good work!
Hopefully enemy fire won't spoil your work and our flight!
Yes Sir, we've checked this ship from stem to stern and she'll serve you and your crew well.
Good luck and God speed.
I'm imagining my grandpa, a B-24 copilot, getting the same response from his crew chief. Gave me a little chill, too.
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