Oddest item you have hauled in your Mooney

[RocketAviator]

Ok what is the oddest thing you have hauled in your Mooney?

Tonight I loaded a Rototiller in my Rocket for a 600 mile trip in the morning!

Pain in the tail had to cover everything with protective covers, first. Then right in through the luggage door no problem!

[Shadrach]

Complete staggered wheel and tire set for a Porsche 986S. Two 225mm and two 255mm on Porsche turbo twist wheels. Laid the rear seats flat and fitted them one by one through the front door into the baggage compartment.  The folks at the Leesburg FBO were looking at me like I had 2 heads...  

[Bob]

Ross,

Next time don't cover anything, just place each wheel in a large garbage bag.  Reminds me of the old Porsche days when many of us would load up a set of 4 race tires in a 911 along with spares, tools and suitcase and head for Road America for the weekend.

 

I came real close to flying in to pick up a disassembled Triumph motorcycle (restoration project), last year.   I chose to drive, after seeing all the parts, they would have fit, but it would not have been fun!

[John Pleisse]

400 lbs of blank CD's, audio equipment and casings. I used to make routine trips from Wash DC to PA and pick this stuff up twice a year. On occasion, I departed in cross winds, with trees boarding the airfield, in the summer at max gross. KGAI-OQN (Gaithersburg-Brandywine).

[Marauder]

A body

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[John Pleisse]

A body

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Your daughter to college?

[Marauder]

Your daughter to college?

Done that too... No, someone's remains. They were just in a condensed form. Which reminds me of a funny story. A buddy of mine owned a C172. His Uncle, a former WW II bomber pilot had died. He requested his ashes be spread over Lake Erie. His nephew took him up in a plastic bag and flying by himself released the ashes.

I asked him how it went and he said "My Uncle will always be with me and my airplane as well". Apparently he managed to make a nice cloud plume in the plane, enough for him to inhale a little bit of his Uncle.

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[The-sky-captain]

A fat girl that had to pee in a sick sack in the back seat 10 minutes into a 3 hour trip. Didn't know her prior to trip so I made a u turn and dropped her back off.

[Shadrach]

Ross,

Next time don't cover anything, just place each wheel in a large garbage bag. Reminds me of the old Porsche days when many of us would load up a set of 4 race tires in a 911 along with spares, tools and suitcase and head for Road America for the weekend.

I came real close to flying in to pick up a disassembled Triumph motorcycle (restoration project), last year. I chose to drive, after seeing all the parts, they would have fit, but it would not have been fun!

I did exactly as you describe. Four 55 gal Hefty bags fitted right on the tarmac.

RE: Trumpets - Birds of a feather...see my airport scooter below! Did you you marry a blonde as well?

Don't mind the parts on the ground in the second photo...at least they're confined to the hangar and not vibrating off as ride down the road!

[Alan Fox]

Five boxes of avionics , including 175 ga56 gps antennas......       Set of Beech ruddervators enroute to the paint shop.....

[MB65E]

Cool a few more Porsche guys!! Rebuilding my old 944 engine at the moment!! I had a honda eu2000i generator that I hauled in a Bravo once. Not really odd but useful!!

-Matt

[Lood]

Two center pivot motor drives, one center pivot gearbox and two center pivot driving shafts - all at once!

[kerry]

Every year in March for the last 5 years I fly to Imperical, CA and I pick up 60 weed eating carp.  Imperical county fish and game water bag up 10 sterile fish per box.  I have to remove my back and front passenger seats to fit all 6 boxes in my plane.  I then fly the fish to my waterski lake in Newberry Springs, CA.  The fish do a good job controlling the grass in the lake.  They get so big after eating the grass they start looking like miniature humpback whales.  When filing my flight plan I get a kick out of telling lockhead that I have 61 souls aboard.

[kerry]

I have a 73 911 targa but I've never hauled any part of it in my plane.

[BigTex]

Every year in March for the last 5 years I fly to Imperical, CA and I pick up 60 weed eating carp. Imperical county fish and game water bag up 10 sterile fish per box. I have to remove my back and front passenger seats to fit all 6 boxes in my plane. I then fly the fish to my waterski lake in Newberry Springs, CA. The fish do a good job controlling the grass in the lake. They get so big after eating the grass they start looking like miniature humpback whales. When filing my flight plan I get a kick out of telling lockhead that I have 61 souls aboard.

Folks, I think we might have a winner!

[Hank]

I have on different flights hauled a small set of elk antlers, and some basswood for carving, about 8' long and about 4" x 8". Talk about FBO people looking at you funny, unload some oversize lumber out the front door!

[Shadrach]

I have a 73 911 targa but I've never hauled any part of it in my plane.

Last year for small bumpers and recessed license plate area. Good looking car! I think you may take the prize for oddest item!

[PMcClure]

I have carried a can seamer and 1000 cans and ends many times. A gold fish name Mako, and a unicycle, (ramp guys didn't appreciate us riding that one into the FBO).

[kmyfm20s]

An Elk!

Every September I carry a backpack full of gear for a week, bag of street cloths, saddle, riffle/bow, and an entire boned out Elk carcass in coolers back home from Jackson WY! The J pulls it off nonstop back to San Diego even with my 230lbs butt on board:) Not odd but cool.

I'm in the Porsche camp also with a 356, 911E Targa, 99 Cabriolet under my belt. My last Porsche went with my last plane when my first kid arrived. Realized my toy time was over for a while. It's nice to be back in the saddle again with the plane and the Porsche back on the radar:)

[1964-M20E]

My wife  

 

I can't recal anything really out of the ordinary.

[Dave Marten]

Hauled two large ice chests full of beer on ice to the Mooney/Bonanza SoCal formation clinic I was hosting.

 

The beer run went well, but I could just imagine how an accident investigation would have read after finding my airplane covered in broken beer bottles.

 

"No sir, I wasn't drinkin' I was just getting ready to later!"

 

Throttle, Mixture, Mags, Master.......Bottle?

[Joe Zuffoletto]

My wife  

 

Damn! You beat me to it!

 

Every year when we return from Cabo I'm hauling a case of V-8 juice (cans) and two giant cans of tomato sauce, all purchased at the Cabo Costco. For some reason the Mexican versions of these products taste better to us.

[Jeff_S]

Ok what is the oddest thing you have hauled in your Mooney?

Tonight I loaded a Rototiller in my Rocket for a 600 mile trip in the morning!

Pain in the tail had to cover everything with protective covers, first. Then right in through the luggage door no problem!

 

I haven't carried anything too exotic, but the funny thing was that I read your original post twice, and both times I thought I read that you'd loaded a "Rottweiler" into your Rocket for a trip in the morning. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why you wanted a Rottweiler in your plane all night.  By the third time through, I finally got it right.

 

Yes, my certificate says I need to carry reading glasses in the cockpit. Yes, I have them. No, I don't put them on often enough it would seem!

[rangermb]

Four AR-15 rifles, sitting up in the back seat. Got excellent service from the FBO at my fuel stop!

[cliffy]

150 lbs of boned out deer meat, complete bathroom rebuilding supplies (but not the sink:-), 4 people in a short body C model ( I know, NO one carries 4 people in flight in a short body!).