WWII Beer Run

[Richard Cranium]

http://ghostgrey.gaetanmarie.com/ar...odification *** - Beer-carrying Spitfires.htm

 

[69a100]

Ya improvise, overcome, you adapt! Nice!

 

[Bruzilla]

We had a rack that could be loaded into the bomb bay of our P-3C Orions that was used to carry luggage or cargo when we needed to, but it could also be used to load about 20 cases of beer up into. Then we would take off, climb to about 35,000 feet, and that beer would be good and cold when we got back on the deck.

 

[Meep-Meep]

A Russian buddy of mine told me of his experience when he got a job working somewhere in the direction toward Kazakhstan. It was some sort of a construction project and the crew was issued a brand new excavator. Some months passed and the bosses came by to check progress and someone noticed that the treads showed heavy wear but the bucket was untouched. The reason for this is they had no other transportation into town to get vodka.

 

[Budnicks]

Now that's the way to do a beer run.....

 

[GTX.JCW]

Flying Booze

In the same thought as your's, I was A/C & Avionics Maintenance in A-3's aboard ship back in '70 and we used to carry a "spare" radio strapped in the bomb bay on certain flights. The radio was gutted; about 36"x12"x12" and you could fit a cae of beer and several bottles of booze in it wrapped for shipment. The pilot and I would do the shopping and pack the case. We would fly back to the carrier and he would take charge of the cargo for later distribution, generally when we were in port. That was the only way he would agree to doing this as we enlisted boys were not allowed to have alcohol aboard ship. Officers could have alcohol in their staterooms.

I guess nobody ever questioned why he had so much at any one time!

Jeff

We had a rack that could be loaded into the bomb bay of our P-3C Orions that was used to carry luggage or cargo when we needed to, but it could also be used to load about 20 cases of beer up into. Then we would take off, climb to about 35,000 feet, and that beer would be good and cold when we got back on the deck.

 

[Benji]

We had a rack that could be loaded into the bomb bay of our P-3C Orions that was used to carry luggage or cargo when we needed to, but it could also be used to load about 20 cases of beer up into. Then we would take off, climb to about 35,000 feet, and that beer would be good and cold when we got back on the deck.

I remember the forunner of the P-3 Orion, the P-2V Neptune quite well as we serviced them at Souda Bay Crete. They flew out of Sigonella Sicily and would refuel at Souda Bay. I know there was at least one beer run made to the AF base at the other end on the island!

Ben

 

[super-bee_ski]

We flew the EC135s SNOOPYs (ARIA) EC135E and EC18Bs
Brought back plenty of "Cockspur" Rum from Barbados....12 year old VSOR, 10 year "Old "Gold" and 5-star...
Beer, ah heck...never brought much back except Victoria Bitters from Melbourne or Perth Australia...
Wine from Australia too...as we did from Azores etc.