Tar MacTartans

US Airways has a yearly Jet Pull competition in Philly, Charlotte, and Phoenix to benefit the United Way. Teams of 20 people compete to manually pull a jet down the runway.

This year, a few of us IT jobs joined a team from the Revenue Accounting division. I had a new employee on the team, a Scottish National, so when asked what our team should wear for the competition, I jokingly said a kilt. Mostly to tease the new employee. However, it caught on, and our team actually did wear kilts. See the video.

Our Scottish teammate, keeping in the spirit, actually brought his bagpipes and we marched out on to the tarmac with him playing. It was a grand time. Our team name was the Tar MacTartans ( a play on the word Tarmac).

Since our competition was in Phoenix, you see the Phoenix Cardinals theme jet, and one of the pictures shows the mascot for the Cardinals.

 Our team was under 8 seconds for the pull, but the really really good teams are sub 5 seconds. The best team each year is usually a Philly ground crew team.

Cheers, nca.