Jason Lefkowitz on Nostr: “The worst thing about the KC-10 was taxiing it around on smaller airfields. The ...
“The worst thing about the KC-10 was taxiing it around on smaller airfields. The nosewheel sits 20+ feet behind the pilots, so you must be very careful about turning sharp corners or trying 180° turns. In these cases, we’d often have a boom operator open the forward doors, lay on their stomach & hang out of the aircraft; they were on the intercom, relaying the position of the main and nose wheels to the pilots, keeping us from crunching taxi lights or ending up in the grass (which we sometimes did anyway).”
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