Well friends, It finally happened!


We thought we had our problem corrected, but alas, as we neared N'djamena, Chad It happened, our number 2 4360 engine gave up the ghost! What ever went it sure blew off parts of cowling and parts were hitting the fuselage, and it sounded like a machine gun was shooting at us. Increased the MP on Number 1 in order to maintain some of the speed of the plane in order to reach the airport. Went ahead and feather the engine, and thought about throwing out some of the cargo, but then the thought of the big bucks, hehe, kept the idea of throwing out some cargo was dismissed. We landed AOK and got the 119 into a private parking place in order to check out the damage. Old Dudley looked at me and said "no way super glue and duck tape is going to put her back in the air!" Now is the time to look for another cargo bird in order to continue the flights, and of course the big buck which more than likely just barley and along with our war chest just might cover the price of a used cargo bird.


We found one and it took most of the monies we had to purchase the DC-6A. Before we forked over the cash we wanted to take a test flight, but we needed an flight engineer. And believe me. this here fellow showed up wearing a WWII flight jacket that it went thru three wars, But darn, he was sure qualified and has been checked out in a DC-6. His name was Bill Smith, now that's sure is an uncommon name right. The test flight went along just great. kicked over the money and started to transfer our cargo to the 6. We all will be heading to Mongo, Chad. Sure hope the credit card we are using has enough credit in order to pay for the fuel at Mango.