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

[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.