western prairies know how bad they can be.
when we got back to the hangar the douglas engineer was beside himself. he was the only one to stay behind and lucky for him he did. with the strong wind, the aircraft started bouncing up and down almost coming off the jacks.
somehow he got a dumpster filled with sand and had it to tie down the nose of the aircraft saving it from coming off the jacks. he told us after that if it did come off the jacks they would have had to scrap the aircraft. it was repaired and back into service for many years after.
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