Shack and Bake,

[MCI transplant]

<_< ------- Today was the umteenth straight day of 100+ degrees of heat in a row in Dallas, with no relief in sight.------- My question is how are you all surviving? This has got to be affecting productivity!

 

[Buck]

<_< ------- Today was the umteenth straight day of 100+ degrees of heat in a row in Dallas, with no relief in sight.------- My question is how are you all surviving? This has got to be affecting productivity!

Tulsa has had its share of the same heat. We did have a cool front recently, 99 F. Tomorrow will be over 100 F again.

 

[eolesen]

That's nothing. Try living in the desert, ie PHX or LAS. 😉

 

[odie01]

<_< ------- Today was the umteenth straight day of 100+ degrees of heat in a row in Dallas, with no relief in sight.------- My question is how are you all surviving? This has got to be affecting productivity!

Powdering your nads with gold bond will keep them from fusing together in your loin cloth, we also drink lots of water.

 

[Frank Szabo]

That's nothing. Try living in the desert, ie PHX or LAS. 😉

That would be preferable (to me) to this damnable humidity in TX & OK. A "humid day" in either of those locales is 15%, not 80% as in TX & OK.

I did "try" (grew up on the left coast) living in that until I was 18 and joined the Navy - loved the left coast and area weather but only knew enough Mexican to get a beer.

 

[MCI transplant]

That's nothing. Try living in the desert, ie PHX or LAS. 😉

<_< -------When I was in the service, we were in Yuma for a time sighting in our 20mm's on our f-8s in the hottest part of summer. We used to carry a bucket of water out on the line when we worked on our Aircraft. It was so hot that if you set a wrench down, and picked it up a few minutes latter, you would burn your hand! So we 'd just drop them in the bucket.------ end of problem!

 

[eolesen]

That would be preferable (to me) to this damnable humidity in TX & OK. A "humid day" in either of those locales is 15%, not 80% as in TX & OK.

Which is why we're retiring to the desert instead of returning to TX or staying in the midwest... Seasons are over-rated.

 

[FWAAA]

When I took off from the east coast to DFW a couple weeks ago, the pilots said that it was 108 at DFW and would probably be hotter by touch down. Indeed, it was 110 by 6:00 pm when we landed and the gate agent loudly welcomed us when the door opened with "Welcome to Honolulu." Turns out that was a record high for the date (announced on LA local news the next morning) and it was already the 20-somethingth day in a row of 100 or more. The heat and humidity was oppressive during the short walk up the jetway - I can't imagine working outside in it, climbing into bag bins and heaving heavy luggage for eight hours plus per day. Hope everyone has access to plenty of cold water all day long.

 

[MCI transplant]

Which is why we're retiring to the desert instead of returning to TX or staying in the midwest... Seasons are over-rated.

<_< ------That's great!----- That's if you don't mind eating dust now and then!

 

[odie01]

<_< -------When I was in the service, we were in Yuma for a time sighting in our 20mm's on our f-8s in the hottest part of summer. We used to carry a bucket of water out on the line when we worked on our Aircraft. It was so hot that if you set a wrench down, and picked it up a few minutes latter, you would burn your hand! So we 'd just drop them in the bucket.------ end of problem!

Used lots of gold bond at MCAS Yuma, loading MK82's, Zuni rockets, flares, chaff, and Napalm, or to be politicly correct, fire bombs, for VMFA112 Cowboys, and the local AV8B squadron. Snake juice at the staff NCO club, good sh-t.

 

[OldGuy@AA]

When we bought the F100 I was on the line that modified the A/C system so it would cool better. The summers in The Netherlands get up to about 75 degrees so they do not know heat. Well we got our first Fokker done and it was on the gate in Tulsa and Dave Kruse (V.P. Maint.) called our manager from the airplane and asked him why he was hot. Ha ha. After all that wonderful Dutch Engineering, the A/C still couldn't handle the Oklahoma heat.

 

[odie01]

When we bought the F100 I was on the line that modified the A/C system so it would cool better. The summers in The Netherlands get up to about 75 degrees so they do not know heat. Well we got our first Fokker done and it was on the gate in Tulsa and Dave Kruse (V.P. Maint.) called our manager from the airplane and asked him why he was hot. Ha ha. After all that wonderful Dutch Engineering, the A/C still couldn't handle the Oklahoma heat.

No sh-t, the pilots loved them but they were a maintenance nightmare. The acm's were the size of grapefruits that fit through an egg shaped hole near the nose of the fusalage. POS airplane that made me alot of money on OT, along with the SCUD.

 

[eolesen]

There's a reason they were called Dutch Ovens... Don't miss them at all.

 

[MCI transplant]

<_< ------- Friend of mine, exTWA/AA, is working with this ol boy who bought an old F100, and is parting it out in one of the Docks of the old overhaul base at MCI. Paid $250,000 for it, pulled the gears out, and sold them for $250,000. Next comes the engines. They figure they'll make a cool mill $$$. after all said and done! They're doing MD80 "C"chks also!------- He was trying to talk me into comming back to work! ------ Ha! No thanks! I've had enough of that!

 

[MCI transplant]

<_< --------- Well people, I feel it's time for me to move on with my life!------- I hope you all can work things out with the Company! I feel blessed! American came along just at the right time in my life for my family, and myself!---------- If you need me, I'll be on the beach at my little piece of paradise in the Caribbean, taking in a little sun, surf, and a beer, or two! Life is good! ------------ God Bless!----- Over and out!!!