Odd ball haul. Very small, weird, or just worth talking about.

[BenGunnII]

My list;

Cool: Inboard/upper wing flap for a B-747 from BFI to ANC in a DC-3.

Stinky: Thousands of lbs of freshly caught salmon to ANC.

Greasy: A bunch of emu oil out of SMX (used in cosmetics?).

Creepy: Various body parts.

 

[treetopflyer]

How about 14000 live baby chickens from Miami to Marsh Harbour in a Caravan. Those things slept the whole way there but, woke up as the sun was coming up. I've never been in an airplane that was that loud and probably never will.

is that dc-3 still in the water on the north side of andros? supposedly full of chicks when it went down.

 

[501261]

Human Sperm

HUMAN SPERM!

Back in my charter days, this casino in Vegas chartered our Westwind, so that we could fly this "Whale's" "little swimmers", back to Houston (6 hour round trip), and complete the fertility check on (apparently this "Whale" wasn't making any babies):nuts: .

Anything to keep those "Whales" gambling !

 

[kingaira90]

crispy critters

How about 14000 live baby chickens from Miami to Marsh Harbour in a Caravan. Those things slept the whole way there but, woke up as the sun was coming up. I've never been in an airplane that was that loud and probably never will.

One better. This happened at my previous employer but to another crew. A DC-3 full of approx 40,000 baby chicks. On a hot hot day. The chiks are all noisy during the flight. After landing it is about 95 outside the plane 120+ in the plane. The people that the farm they were going to were unloading. This chick (human) wanted to sort the boy and girl chicks (chickens) during the unload. Of course the pilots have no idea the difference so it is a big slow confused mess. After about 20 min of this dipstick fiddling, the plane starts to get quiet (still full mind you). Her lack of a sense of urgency killed most of the load. Sucks to be a baby chick (chicken)!-kingaira90

 

[PHXFLYR]

Carried one pallet of HIV infected Lab mice RDU-CLT-TOL when I flew for ATI.
We also carried something like 22,000lbs of Dell computers out of AUS one night. Another time we were assigned to a 10 day Ford contract where we carried F150 truck doors manufactured at a stamping plant in Detroit down to the Ford F150 Plant in MCI. Interesting job.

PHXFLYR

 

[81Horse]

Sled dogs (Iditarod); they stink, too.

A Porsche Carrera (to Juneau -- where there are, IIRC, only about 50 miles of paved road).

Cat litter (and no one could tell me why)

Paper cups and toilet paper (in bank bags, along with less important items, like negotiable instruments, usw)

And, all too often, some other pilot's car keys.

 

[Ill Mitch]

I had 2000 pounds of explosives one time.

 

[LR25]

A stretch 8 with one landing gear strut accross the pond.

 

[Nolife]

Every Mon, Wed, and Fri I flew stool samples (not the furniture kind) in a poorly sealed styrofoam box. I peaked inside once and almost left my own puke sample.

 

[Wankel7]

Yeah, we did the chicken run in a shorts 360. Had 36,000 of the little guys back there. We picked them up in ... Gilmer county airport in SC or GA? Then we took them up to JFK. After that they headed to Pakastan. Go figure.

They were soooo cute I took a few out and played with them on the flight I was really bored. It was funny how loud they were until you hit some turblance and they shut up for a lil bit.

They sure heated up that plane...we had ducted the bled air back to them trying to keep them cool. I don't think we killed to many of them.

The downside was all that damn dust it was everywhere!

Wankel

 

[leardawg]

I was in a 135 recurrent class a few years ago, about 20 of us in there. Just a terribly boring class for us and the instructor, but we had to do it. We all just wanted to get through it all so we could knock off at a decent time and go catch part of happy hour, but we had one guy sitting up front asking the most inane, drawn out and pointless questions; he was killing us and everyone would groan when he'd raise his hand. Finally, near the end of the day we are going through the Hazmat section; we didn't even carry hazmat but we still had to cover it in our OpsSpecs. Naturally, this guy had a question about us having some exception to carrying "Bull Semen" and wanted to know "where would we carry it?"

Some quickwit from the back said, "In your mouth."

Why does there seem to be one of those guys in every initial or recurrent class? Maybe they're some kind of FAA plant to make sure the class meets or exceeds minimum time length requirements! "Wait a minute. Could you go over that again? I don't see why that switch goes down for the on position instead of up. When I flew the Turdjet for XYZ, we always blah blah blah ...." :uzi:

 

[rubicon789]

I've had lot's of wierd things, but one that sticks out was sperm from a well know race horse to be used for breeding. I can't remember the name though.

 

[starcheck1]

I used to carry 8 boxes of HIV and Hepatitis diagnostic samples along with acidified urines every night. I have also carried live lab mice and guinea pigs with a special "Do not feed" sticker on the side....yeah like I was giving up my midnight lunch to those little suckers. I knew a pilot who flew a toaster from TEB to BUF along with the checks that were going to the bank that night.

 

[inthewind]

I once met a guy that had just flown a load of 2000# of paprika

 

[fokkers&beer]

Every Friday night used to carry a Beech-18 grossed out full of Cows blood out of SUX. In that same airplane I carried a single 2" diameter bearing from FSD to JVL for the GM plant, the only thing I thought was could they get a slower, larger airplane? I guess they could have used a DC-3.

 

[Jetdriver69]

I flew 40,000 lbs of beer from Germany to Macadonia for British peacekeepers. It wasn't even good beer, all US stuff. Flew human remains, nuclear weapons, a military trained dolphin and a mini submarine.

 

[FL420]

A conventional explosive trigger for a nuke. Hardest I ever worked for a good landing on dry land.

 

[cherry20's]

Funniest thing I ever flew was World Series hats from Houston to Chicago the night the White Soxs won. Flew some laser guided missle tips for the Navy and a 777 nose gear to Boeing feild.

 

[inthewind]

Not really cargo but I once picked up a guy on a stretcher who had his finger in a box on ice. Seems he was framing a window in his house and cut it off with a Skillsaw. Maybe he was a little short on the skill part of the equation.

 

[FN FAL]

Even if we had to carry odd balls they would most likely have to be in boxes so that we wouldn't lose our train of thought. Company rules.

Now if you're talking about oddballs, we can't carry those either, because Mesaba and Skyways does that.