On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:49:25 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:25:50 GMT, Short Wave Sportfising
wrote:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:28:50 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:16:52 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:



John H. wrote:

Why do you see helicopters flying with their doors open?

Open? How about 'off'. I don't recall ever seeing the damn doors.
--
John H

They were around, John. (pic of a USN HU-UD1)

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/uh-1-dvic328.jpg


You had to remove them if you had a fixed m-134 mini or a stationary
mounted M-2, but they could have been left on., just not closed. Less
weight and less turbulance.

Most had them taken off, though, unless it was an actual MED-VAC
'copter

Turbulance? in a ... chopper????

Hell, I thought they took them off to make it noisier inside and move
streamlined, for those damn vertical descents. Chopper pilots were a crazy
bunch. These were our guys in Cu Chi:

http://25thaviation.org/id29.htm

Our guys...

Yeah, the Little Bears were the ones that flew us around all the time. They
took me up for morning dawn patrol for six months. They also had a nice
club on Cu Chi to which the Engineers (always in demand) were always
welcome.

I sure don't feel badly calling them 'our guys'.

Something wrong with that, in your humble opinion?

No, no - not at all. For some reason I can't explain, the rest of the
post got cut off.

Allow me...

Our guys...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMM-364