"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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On 2008-03-24 10:54:38 -0700, "John T"
said:

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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Wow!! And the flight crew didn't get sucked out the hole like
Goldfinger?

1. Haha.

2. Think frangible bullets. May not have even been a hole.

The sextant port on the C-130 was bigger than any hole a bullet would
make. I don't think anyone has ever been sucked out of one of those.
Actually, it was just the right size to hold a vacuum cleaner hose, so if
you were at altitude you could vacuum out the cockpit. No one ever got
sucked out the vacuum cleaner hose, either. Come to think of it, no one
gets sucked up into vacuum cleaner hoses on the ground, either.

There was a practical joke you could play on the pilot using the sextant
port, though. You stuck a hard-boiled egg in there. It was a tight fit.
The egg would get sucked out, making a popping noise that sounded for all
the world like a shotgun. Scared the heck out of the pilot. But USAF, in
its infinite wisdom, stopped putting hard-boiled eggs in the box lunches.
I don't know why. :-)

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor


Probably to limit the amount of methane gas released by the flight crew.