Weird Walk-Arounds !

[steve_ford_author]

Finding Skunk meat on the top of a C182 certainly got my attention....from about 50 feet!

Skunk strike or bird of prey picnic table? Who knows..... but out came the hosepipe pretty quick.

What is the weirdest thing you have found on a walk-around????

 

[Warlock]

Bullet hole in an AH-64…but we were in Texas…Three AK-47s taped to the walls of the tail boom in an aborted test flight at the port of Beaumont in a 1st CAV OH-58 when it would not hover right. It was the way home from Desert Storm…

 

[Velocity173]

Mouse in the avionics compartment. Fishing line wrapped around the tail rotor.

 

[Zeldman]

Are These Lions Huddled in the Shade of an Airplane Wing?

We can't vouch that the backstory for these photographs is exactly as described, but the pictures themselves are real.

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[Piperonca]

Bullet hole in an AH-64…but we were in Texas…Three AK-47s taped to the walls of the tail boom in an aborted test flight at the port of Beaumont in a 1st CAV OH-58 when it would not hover right. It was the way home from Desert Storm…

Friend shipped an AK-47 home from Vietnam. Disassembled and put inside a little Sanyo refrigerator, which was then taped up. Another instance was an Air Force colonel who brought one home in his C-130, then mounted it in his office. He always laughed to himself when visitors would ask about it. "Nah, the barrel is welded shut." Not.

 

[Daleandee]

Noticed at a fly-in once when we were all inspectioning each others planes. A pilot had arrived in a Challenger II that he had just replaced the fuel lines on. But he had forgotten to put any clamps back on the fuel line ...

 

[flyingron]

Friend shipped an AK-47 home from Vietnam. Disassembled and put inside a little Sanyo refrigerator, which was then taped up. Another instance was an Air Force colonel who brought one home in his C-130, then mounted it in his office. He always laughed to himself when visitors would ask about it. "Nah, the barrel is welded shut." Not.

It's the preferred weapon of your enemy. It makes a very distinctive sound when fired at you.

 

[MRC01]

A few years ago, a bird nest inside the horizontal stabilizer of my 172. The plane had only sat for a week. When birds decide to move in, they go fast.

 

[MauleSkinner]

A few years ago, a bird nest inside the horizontal stabilizer of my 172. The plane had only sat for a week. When birds decide to move in, they go fast.

I’ve seen that over lunch.

 

[BillTIZ]

Snake in the aft fuselage. Yes it was a desert airport.

 

[Piperonca]

It's the preferred weapon of your enemy. It makes a very distinctive sound when fired at you.

Yes, I remember that sound very well.

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

17 rounds of 9mm in a clip under the seat of my plane......and I didn't own a gun. Turns out months earlier I let a friend borrow my plane and it fell out of his pocket.

 

[brcase]

Maybe Lack of preflight, but then not something one would normally check each flight. A distant cousin of mine took this photo...



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[SoonerAviator]

17 rounds of 9mm in a clip under the seat of my plane......and I didn't own a gun. Turns out months earlier I let a friend borrow my plane and it fell out of his pocket.

Which gun takes a clip of 17 - 9mm rounds? Hopefully it was in a magazine.

 

[robin ardoin]

Which gun takes a clip of 17 - 9mm rounds? Hopefully it was in a magazine.

He was just saying he didn't own a semi pistol...twice.

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

Which gun takes a clip of 17 - 9mm rounds? Hopefully it was in a magazine.

I see you major in petulance.

 

[SoonerAviator]

I see you major in petulance.

I did, and I've been eyeing a Master's level program, lol.

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

btw.....I call em magazines when they are >30.

 

[flyingron]

I see you major in petulance.

I thought that was flatulence.

 

[donjohnston]

I see you major in petulance.

With a minor in Pedantic.

 

[Half Fast]

17 rounds of 9mm in a clip under the seat of my plane......and I didn't own a gun.

Sounds like a good reason to buy one!

 

[robin ardoin]

Sounds like a good reason to buy one!

^^^^THIS^^^^^

I would post pictures of my HK collection in various chamberings but they were lost in an accident at sea .

 

[Racerx]

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

I thought that was flatulence.

yup....just remember....flatulence will get you no where.

 

[Gilbert Buettner]

A few years ago, a bird nest inside the horizontal stabilizer of my 172. The plane had only sat for a week. When birds decide to move in, they go fast.

I had left my airplane for about four hours. I noticed a bird sitting on a prop blade, and when I investigated, found a nest atop the engine. And there was an egg in the nest.

 

[Checkout_my_Six]

Sounds like a good reason to buy one!

I did....a couple of them.

 

[SoonerAviator]

I had left my airplane for about four hours. I noticed a bird sitting on a prop blade, and when I investigated, found a nest atop the engine. And there was an egg in the nest.

Poached or hard boiled?

 

[Zeldman]

Which gun takes a clip of 17 - 9mm rounds? Hopefully it was in a magazine.

My 20 round magazines have only 19 rounds. And my 30 round magazines only have 28 rounds in them. And when I will need them I just hope the spring isn't broken...

 

[Flyxaos]

"And my 30 round magazines only have 28 rounds in them."

That sounds like a holdover from 1968. I thought that problem was fixed...

 

[Zeldman]

I thought that problem was fixed...

I bought a couple of boxes full of gun parts from an estate sale some 40 years ago and the family knew nothing about them. The 20 rounders were in one box, so I'll be safe instead of sorry. The 30 rounders were used when I got them 15 years ago, very used.

I have a case of new 20 round magazines that I won't worry about, but they are still sealed in plastic so I'll leave them there until needed.

 

[cessna182b]

I had left my airplane for about four hours. I noticed a bird sitting on a prop blade, and when I investigated, found a nest atop the engine. And there was an egg in the nest.

BTDT - although no doubt the time element was longer. I relocated the nest to a gallon jug (with cutout for access) attached to a nearby chain link fence. Next time I visited the jug was still
there, but there was no sign of the nest.

Dave

 

[Baked Potato]

Not as good as lions or an AK-47, but a very active hornet's nest in one of the lightening holes in the port wing, pretty close to the cabin door. Discovered after the "flaps down" item in the pre-flight.

They were still there when we landed again, but perhaps short a few members.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

missing bonanza wheel bolt (there are only 3)
broken case through-bolt, io-520 (seen through oil filler door)
mouse ate hole through citation aluminum hydraulic line
in your animal theme, cat had scratch the #@! out of the fuse fabric paint, then ****ed on the top, including into a cabin air exhaust vent

 

[Piperonca]

Rice growing in a chin bubble. Never will forget that.

 

[Gary Ward]

I’ve seen that over lunch.

In the spring it is common for the birds to try to start building nest in your plane while you are opening your hangar door to push your plane inside.
They ask us not to leave our hangar doors open in the spring while out flying due to birds nesting.
They love small planes for some reason?
My plane sat outside for a while with very little flying. I found lots of mud daubers and wasps nest in it when I first got it. The avionics shop found even more under the panel and in the side panels.
A couple days ago I had a access panel off for one of my flaps, there was another big wasps nest in there.
OMG I have a lot wasps nest in my plane even today I bet.
This is only half of what I found during the first annual inspection.
The prior inspections were done with a pen and not a screw driver.
I have removed many more in the years since.

 

[ateamer]

Even with my plane being kept in a hangar, I have plugs or covers in all openings - pitot, vents, exhaust, fuel vents. No matter how much I tighten up the hangar there are still bugs.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Wasn’t on preflight, but my mechanic was starting a condition inspection on my Spezio Tuholer, and when he took the wing root fairings off, oats fell out.

We had seeded a new airstrip the previous year with oats for cover, and I didn’t cut the oats until they were tall enough to turn the leading edges green.

 

[SoonerAviator]

In the spring it is common for the birds to try to start building nest in your plane while you are opening your hangar door to push your plane inside.
They ask us not to leave our hangar doors open in the spring while out flying due to birds nesting.
They love small planes for some reason?
My plane sat outside for a while with very little flying. I found lots of mud daubers and wasps nest in it when I first got it. The avionics shop found even more under the panel and in the side panels.
A couple days ago I had a access panel off for one of my flaps, there was another big wasps nest in there.
OMG I have a lot wasps nest in my plane even today I bet.
This is only half of what I found during the first annual inspection.
The prior inspections were done with a pen and not a screw driver.
I have removed many more in the years since.

May have needed a new W&B after all that dirt from the mud daubers, lol.

 

[Dan Thomas]

The prior inspections were done with a pen and not a screw driver.

Screwdrivers and flashlight batteries and inspection mirrors are expensive. Pens are cheap.

I've found lots of such evidence. Once took a mouse nest (mouse colony, more accurately) out of a Bellanca Viking's wing. Filled a galvanized garbage can with it. Apparently, for a very long time nobody had opened up that wing and stuck a mirror around some of the corners,

 

[DaleB]

Not a walkaround, but if we're including annual inspections (and condition inspections, which are done annually but some people get really offended if you refer to them as an annual inspection)... I've added several sockets and a nice little Mini-Mag flashlight to my toolbox, just with stuff I pulled out of my own plane.