Sorry guys...a long shaggy dog story. 1964, brand new 1st LT., completed T-37, T-38, and C-130 schools. Just arrived at Pope Air Force Base, N.C. My C-130 instructor was a former 119 instructor, thus I had heard all the C-119 stories ever told. I was told to meet an airplane Sunday morning for transport to Ft. Benning, GA. Sunday morning two crusty old sargents showed up with a Jeep and a trailer and informed I was to be ground safety officer for Ft. Benning Jump School. When I saw a C-119 on final, my heart fell. As he taxied onto the ramp to make a 180 turn he engaged the left brake. The only way I can describe it, it sounded like a bull elephant dying in a hail storm. Oil was dripping off number one engine and turning the ramp black. Crew door opens and two full Col. walk out with a guy in a Hawaiian shirt following them. He opened the engine cowling and reached up with his bare hand and did something and shouted, load it up and we will be ready. He then drew two gallons of gasoline from the wing sump and throws it into the engine, closes the cowling and says, start number 2. I'm not very smart, but I know you don't throw gasoline on a hot engine and then start it. They aborted the first take-off because of a misfire on number two engine. Returned to the end of the runway and make a rolling take-off without even doing an engine run-up. All the way through the take-off run and climb out number 2 engine continues to misfire occasionally. They flew the airplane that way for the whole week at Ft. Benning Jump School. Next Sunday the Col. gave me 30 minutes of stick time in the 119. The Col. said he would let me land except they were having trouble with that right engine. That was a week to remember.
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