Captain O Hara Case Study

The Marines and SEALs had successfully cleared the Aviation museum which allowed Captain O’Hara, Commander McDonald and the engineers in. The women that were found on the premise were being relocated to Oceana NAS for processing and relocation. Corporal Higgins was being sent back to Oceana by Captain Luxon with his wife and child. Captain Luxon was a firm believer in taking care of the family first, if his Marines knew their families were safe and taken care of they were far more likely to take the risks the job required. Not only was the inside of the museum rich with aircraft there were also surrounding hangers with Army, Navy, World War One, Cottbus which filled with German Luftwaffe aircraft and fighter factory where they rebuilt …show more content…
About half started right up with no problems, the other half either refused to crank over at all and the others attempted to start, back fired and the battery went dead. The solution to the battery problem was to remove some of the good ones from the aircraft that started and use them to jump start the other planes. The others the engineers checked out to see if they could find anything mechanically wrong with them only after trying to jump start them. Two they found were out of fuel and once they found some and topped them off they fired right up. The others, about five World War Two aircraft, wouldn’t start at all. The engineers didn’t know why, it wasn’t that they were bad engineers or mechanics, they had never worked any of these types of aircraft, which is most cases were forty years older them most of …show more content…
There was a small runway at the museum; the next step was to get the aircraft to Oceana and taken care of there. He still needed people that understood the mechanics of the aircraft and none had yet to materialize out of thin air. He also only had three or four pilots that understood how to fly the aircraft. These were different aircraft that didn’t have any modern avionics and would require real skill to fly them, there was no computer to do anything for them, it was all them. This was a different mindset for the pilot. Right now he had two pilots that felt they had a handle on how to fly some of the aircraft, mostly the smaller World War Two fighters. There were several B-25s, Catalina’s, a couple of Skyraiders, and a couple of German Luftwaffe Junkers. These planes were going to require more training to fly then the current Navy pilots had not to mention a crew to fly