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On the port side of the cabin about half way back there used to be an recepticle labeled "missle heat plug" this was to facilitate transport of the Honest John and Lance missiles.We figured a way to use this set up to run a coffee maker and hot plate.
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120v, 400cycles, and it fit a regular wall plug. (I always thought that was odd.Get poked by that when you're back farting around the generators and you'll know it..) I saw 2-3 of the guys in our platoon (In case you haven't figured it yet, Johnny was my platoon sergeant way back 'in the day'..Crusty old b**tard..<GRIN> ) with hotplates, coffemakers, popcorn poppers and the like rigged that way. You ain't lived in the field 'til you've had an "egg mcmuffin" made on one of those old hot-oil popcorn poppers. Mmmmm. Yummy.
Also, what Johnny says about room is too true. Heading out to the field for a week, I used to tell the pilots "Don't sweat it if she hovers nose low.. I have a ton of pogey bait behind the sound proofing.." Crap like chips, bread (MREs can be made much better with bread, FYI), soda, *cough* beer cough*, etc.
If you're ever looking to detail a Charlie model
(which I eventually will be, depending on what mods I'll have to make to the Trump Delta when its released), I can provide a lot of anecdotal information about ways we configured the interiors of our aircraft. Mind you, there wasn't an "army standard" way, it varied from unit to unit and location to location.
(ie. US units might have removed the armor plating over the SAS boxes next to the companionway, whereas in Korea we kept them installed, etc.) I have photos, too, but not in the "museum quality" way you'd probably expect :)
Darin Ninness
213th Avn Co, ROK 86-89
CH-47C, 67-18500 "The Pride of Texas"