Cranky Days

Kim Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:12 pm

Man! Get just a LITTLE cranky...and everybody goes sensitive !

**Cribbs74** Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:03 pm

Looks like they put down on paper, what we've known all along Kim!!!
lol!

**RknRusty** Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:04 pm

Blackhawk, eh. Did you go to lunch with the crew?

**Cribbs74** Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:09 pm

I flew in a Blackhawk from Bosnia to Kosovo. When we lifted off the pilot said and I quote "Crap! that's not good" that statement was prefaced by a 20 minute rundown of emergency crash procedures.

Apparently the break a lot. Brave pilots fly those things.

Ron

Kim Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:10 pm

cribbs74 wrote:Looks like they put down on paper, what we've known all along Kim!!!

Hey! I'm a regular ole sweet-natured dude...except, of course, "when acted upon by an outside force"!!!!!

Kim Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:12 pm

RknRusty wrote:Blackhawk, eh. Did you go to lunch with the crew?

No...they generally chill out over in the restaurant, or head into town while we fuel their aircraft. Got a couple Chinooks on the slate for next Wednesday!

Kim Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:15 pm

cribbs74 wrote:I flew in a Blackhawk from Bosnia to Kosovo. When we lifted off the pilot said and I quote "Crap! that's not good" that statement was prefaced by a 20 minute rundown of emergency crash procedures.

Apparently the break a lot. Brave pilots fly those things.

Ron

They DO get rode hard in service. We see everything from brand-new-paint-still-wet models, to tired War Dogs on their way to refab.

Lot of great guys driving those machines !

**RknRusty** Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:18 pm

Jim the president of our flying club flew Hueys in 'Nam. He told some stories about it at the meeting earlier this month. For Veterans' Day he was presented a nice static model of a Huey by one of the members, a Korean immigrant, who was very appreciative of those allies who had kept them free in the South. It took him 2 years to finish the model.

Jim said he'd auto-rotated down ten times in his flying days. Once as an instructor, when he landed the rotor pretty much fell off.

Kim Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:39 pm

RknRusty wrote:Jim the president of our flying club flew Hueys in 'Nam. He told some stories about it at the meeting earlier this month. For Veterans' Day he was presented a nice static model of a Huey by one of the members, a Korean immigrant, who was very appreciative of those allies who had kept them free in the South. It took him 2 years to finish the model.

Jim said he'd auto-rotated down ten times in his flying days. Once as an instructor, when he landed the rotor pretty much fell off.

Yeah...Huey's touched a lot of lives. My brother did a tour of Viet Nam on the ground with the 101st, then spent most of Desert Storm I flying a Missouri National Guard Dust Off Huey around Iraq.

Interestingly, his most scary situation was here in Missouri when his Huey suffered a complete hydraulic loss, and he a had to skid it to a stop on a paved runway.

This example came through Cape a while back...one of the last Hueys serving in the Mo. National Guard...and was retired a few weeks later.