-7 in Anchorage...operations affected?
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Catatonic
Nine Lives
They still let us build a fire in the back of the PC?
trickpony1
Well-Known Member
Do they require the feeder drivers to shut the engine off at every opportunity to save fuel and make the idle time numbers look good?
(sarcasm)
(sarcasm)
No open flames. I had a space heater and a recliner.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Well of course, but it would be easier if he could find a girlfriend first. LOL
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Well of course, but it would be easier if he could find a girlfriend first. LOL
I thought he was waiting for steve's oldest to turn 18.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Hoax, when I was in the Air Force my job was to put gas on airplanes at Plattsburgh AFB. They would stop flying at -70F windchill. One night it was -68F windchill and it was business as usual.
browndevil
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LMAO Dill. You posted my exact thoughtsWell of course, but it would be easier if he could find a girlfriend first. LOL
As I recall in my experience with airport operations, we had more than several equipments of problem that won't start like K-loaders, push backs, tug, even fuel truck were froze and couldn't fill the fuel to the aircraft causing big delays though. Did anyone or GSE ever though about putting "heet" which helps prevents fuel lines from freezing and it would help to start effectively in such deeper colder weather? I uses heet only when the temps were in 20 and 30's during snow storm. It helps really well keeping the engine running and for very cold start.
Hot Chocolate & more additional dressed up layers?
Big Babooba
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I've heard stories from some Air Force retirees about the haunted barracks on the Old Base.It had to do with a fire during the War of 1812 if I remember correctly.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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These were stone barracks that still stand and are soon to be part of the recently opened museum on the Old Base. I have also heard those stories, although my time when I was stationed here was spent mostly on the flightline which was on the New Base.
Those retirees you speak of wouldn't recognize the base today. It closed in 1995 and now is the home of an international airport, businesses and base housing converted in to private houses.
rod
Retired 22 years
I've delivered when it's -42 below and believe me it's NO fun. NOTHING works right. Your tires feel like they are square, the widows frost up, everything squeeks and squawks and fights you. The boxes get so slippery it's hard to hang on to them. You stuff cardboard in front of the radiator and needless to say--the engine DON"T get shut off.
