I got a job! Robert Cork is on the airport board and his job for the airshow is "Oil Boss". And I'm his b****h! Seriously, I always knew that old, radial engines used oil like rednecks use Redman, but I wasn't prepared for a request for a 55-gallon drum of 120-weight oil. The B-17 crew has an oiler rig in the back of a dually pickup complete with tank and nozzle and they spend their mornings pumping oil.
I had a ball running around on a golf cart asking if anybody needed oil and delivering. Smoke oil is dispensed from a forklift with a 12VDC pump rig running about .8 gallons per minute. The performer's airplanes have tanks that hold 10-30 gallons. The smoke is from the oil being sprayed into a hot exhaust. The Blue Angels use pallets of the stuff, but they bring and dispense their own.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment