On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:17:49 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:37:15 GMT, Short Wave Sportfising
wrote:
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.
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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.
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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
Thanks for the explanation. It did seem like a cheap little shot! :)
You guys used the 'Sea Knights', we used the 'Chinooks'. No matter, I
hated the noisy son's of bitches. I never got friendly with any of those
pilots, but never flew in the damn things much. I don't know what unit
supported us with the Chinooks.
They had Chinooks for a little while, but the Sea Knights came very
quickly. I remember the first ride I had in a Chinook - nothing like
looking straight down through the floor boards at 5,000 feet. :)
There was also a light scout group, can't remember their designation
at the moment, which had Huey's, Cobras and those little scout
'copters that I occasionally used to fly with.