Unconventional uses for avionics

Jim Thomas wrote:

It wasn't really avionics, but in the bad old days when lots of us
smoked (and could, in the A-1), a pilot who forgot his lighter could
light up by using the light bulb in the gun sight (unscrew the fitting,
turn the sight on, hold against cigarette).

Very cool.

I remember being called out to the flight line many a time to open the
forward ALQ-126 compartment on A-6's to stow some "crew gear" -
especially when getting ready to return from a deployment at Rosie Road's.

When COORS was only available West of the Rockies - student pilots @
Whiting Field would bring back cases while on cross country flights.

I once heard a story of a B-47 crew that had to jettison a Jaguar over the
North Atlantic due to aircraft problems while returning from the UK. I also
heard a story about a B-36 that dropped a power cart (over Tulsa?) while
practicing bomb runs while on the way to the range.

"Adam Fathauer" wrote in message
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I remember being called out to the flight line many a time to open the
forward ALQ-126 compartment on A-6's to stow some "crew gear" -
especially when getting ready to return from a deployment at Rosie Road's.