Tail_Gunner
CRJ & ERJ A&P Mech.
When I was stationed over in Okinawa Japan, Crewing F-15s, ....... I died laughing
GOD I love new Luitenants..
WAY BACK WHEN, I was a crew chief on B-52H's, we got a new kid on our crew, right out of tech school. He worked with and shadowed us all week long. Come Friday afternoon, it was time to call it a week. We buttoned up the airplane and told this young kid to go up into the cockpit, make sure all the lights are off, the battery and interphone power is turned off, the windows and sextant port were closed and most of all GRAB THE IGNITION KEYS!!! And don't forget them!!!
Well, we sat out in our maintenance trailer for over half an hour, watching him through the windows and laughing our arses off while he was crawling all over the cockpit looking for the "keys".
After a while, he finally came down on edge of tears, saying he couldn't find the keys. We let him in the joke after that.
The ironic thing was that a few years after that, an anti-intrusion detection system was installed for when the planes were on alert and loaded with things that I cannot confirm nor deny the existance of. Next to the entry hatch was a keyed switch to turn the system on & off. That kind of killed that on-going joke.