Jerry,
Like I said, we took them off whenever we ran engines for any reason. Aside from that, I kept mine on 'cause that Southern Cal sun could fry your brains. I always wore long sleeve fatigue shirts after I saw a guy get the skin pulled off his arm when he laid it on the skin of the plane on a 110 degree day. But once they started painting the C-141's with the white and grey motif from the original unpainted metal surface, I switched to short sleeves. A painted surface, while still hot, wasn't nearly as bad as the unpainted version. I remember one day (actually, there were several) when the temps reached 115 and one of my teamates brought an egg back from the chow hall; he literally cooked it on the wing! The ironic thing was that touching LOX would burn you worse due to the extreme cold.
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06-10-2005, 03:22 AM
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