Weapons Load Crew of the Year Competition on Holloman AFB

[alicechaos]

Weapons load crew 49th MMS F-4D 72-74....

[HavokRG1]

Wow, brings back memories! I worked the F117a from 90-97 in the 415th FS / 9th FS. Was Weapons "two" man until 95' then crossed to engines. Miss my monthly loadbarn in 877, lol.

[marols08]

Oh my...what time it takes. Ever seen Swedish Airforce do a turn around with full weapon load?

[jaiPawanPutraHanuman]

What is the name of the weapons load trolley to load the a/c?

Is there a link about it?

[odinsraven1000]

Thats the MJ-1 Lift Truck - standard for use in loading munitions on any fighters in the USAF.

[jaiPawanPutraHanuman]

Thank You, very much, that was great help.

So, is that the only weapons loading equipment used on all U.S. planes ? F16,18,22, 117 and now the 35?

[odinsraven1000]

No... there is another lift truck - the MHU-83... and then there's the MOLT - which is a manual loading trailer... AIM-9 missiles are loaded by hand without the use of equipment.

These lift trucks are used to load:

A-10, T-38, F-16, F-15, F-117, F-22, B-1, B-2, and B-52. not the F-18 (Navy)

[jaiPawanPutraHanuman]

Great, thanks for the information!

p.s. In the words of the late night crowd on the Tonight's show with Conan O'brien: USA!!! USA!!! USA!!

lol

[jaiPawanPutraHanuman]

Never mind, LALS is the full system and MHU-131 is a part of it . :-)

[jaiPawanPutraHanuman]

Does MOLT stand for Manually operated Lift trailer?

[odinsraven1000]

yep

[jonesy97]

Pretty cool. I used to do this on F-111F and D models. Looks like GBU-10"s and GBU-12's being loaded.

[ziggy2162]

That's funny I worked F-111E's in the UK (Upper Heyford)

[jonesy97]

Sad that they're all gone now. Never thought I'd miss that jet.