wrote:

We had a couple of Argus visit at Quonset. I watched one start up and
thought, "My God, he's on fire!" I have NEVER seen any aircraft
(including the old C-124 Globemaster) put out quite so much smoke on
start! I hope you had an oil quantity transmitter!!!!! ;-)


Yes they did do that for sure...pretty big engine (almost as big
as the Globemaster). Yes, oil quantity indicator for each engine
and each engine's oil tank held 54 Imperial gallons.

Makes for an ideal ASW platform. Pilots can keep their full
attention outside the a/c while the F/E looks after the
housekeeping duties

Was the aircraft commander also the mission commander? Did you guys
have NFO-type ASW specialists?

Bill Kambic

With very rare exceptions he was, yes, and our ASW specialists
were called AESOP's for Airbourne Electronic System OPerators.

Quite a long intensive course because they all need to be
qualified on all systems. Most were non-commissioned. About 10 on
a full Argus crew, plus two navigators, two pilots and two Flight
Engineers.





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-Gord.
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