Author Topic: Chinooks (Read 96492 times)

Flyin6 · « **on:** December 17, 2015, 11:22:29 AM »

My favorite aircraft!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:25:41 AM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:27:36 AM »

Good Stuff!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:29:50 AM »

Hooks

Flyin6 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:32:00 AM »

And the nose art is coming back!

Black Hawks and Apaches aren't big enough for any art work!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:34:39 AM »

No piluts alowd!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:37:08 AM »

Sentimental bunch!

Oh, and never, never, EVER, fall asleep in the back of a Chinook in flight!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:38:51 AM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:41:16 AM »

OK, so there's a MD 530 in there...Flew them too and like em'
Just not as much

stlaser · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2015, 02:37:27 PM »

Where's the tanks? ;D

Flyin6 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:40:57 PM »

Quote from: stlaser on December 17, 2015, 02:37:27 PM

Where's the tanks? ;D

I have some tank pics!
I'll put them up in my Rut-Ro thread

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:43:25 PM »

too bad there aren't any back scratching videos....or videos of someone dragging a tree around...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:51:33 PM »

And More!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:53:37 PM »

I like em'!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:55:38 PM »

Second pic dedicated to Bobby

JR · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:57:20 PM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:57:49 PM »

I flew for "Darkhorse Airlines"

Flyin6 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:59:37 PM »

How's the load hangin'?

wilsonphil · « **Reply #18 on:** December 18, 2015, 02:21:49 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOhQWTBGEf8

And why we have a dynamics Dept

Flyin6 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 18, 2015, 02:59:18 PM »

^^^You had to go and remind me of that.... >:(

Flyin6 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 18, 2015, 03:01:15 PM »

OK, Back to happy Chinook thoughts...

Flyin6 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 18, 2015, 03:02:58 PM »

Until I can find some more:

cudakidd53 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 19, 2015, 04:51:05 PM »

I laughed HARD at the "formation of aviation warrants about to conduct PT" photo! ;D

Flyin6 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 19, 2015, 06:45:28 PM »

Quote from: cudakidd53 on December 19, 2015, 04:51:05 PM

I laughed HARD at the "formation of aviation warrants about to conduct PT" photo! ;D

It is so true!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 30, 2015, 07:47:12 PM »

Rob, the gentleman from NZ I met in Kandahar just sent me these:

Nate · « **Reply #25 on:** December 30, 2015, 10:27:12 PM »

I have said it before and I will say it again!

dustoff is the only way that I will ever willingly ride in that damned catfish and when that happens, murphy blanked everything !!!!!!!!!!!!

by the way, how is duane doing?

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #26 on:** December 31, 2015, 08:20:40 AM »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_evacuation

Hmm. Learned something new today about yalls brotherhood.

Nate with just a few months to go if you need medevac something indeed has gone wrong.

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Nate · « **Reply #27 on:** December 31, 2015, 10:55:07 AM »

don,

I think this one may be even worse than the other one I shared...?

https://youtu.be/C2W6pDiopw0

Flyin6 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 31, 2015, 03:47:08 PM »

Quote from: nmeyer414 on December 31, 2015, 10:55:07 AM

don,

I think this one may be even worse than the other one I shared...?

https://youtu.be/C2W6pDiopw0

That's pretty bad...

cudakidd53 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 01, 2016, 07:29:18 AM »

I now need that product because of that Ad......

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #30 on:** January 01, 2016, 10:19:40 PM »

Don. The NS guys that crashed in the Bin Laden compound had trained in a mock up with a chain link fence but the air was not stable when they went in because it was a solid fence. Can you talk us thorough how that fence can cause that instability that led to the copter going down?

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 02, 2016, 09:41:16 AM »

The Brits can fly these things too!

But I saw a couple of my alma-mater making it into the scenes (Probes)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203724579673570

Bigdave_185 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:00:10 AM »

I am just going to leave this right here

Raising boys into RealMen!!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:08:13 AM »

Typical...

And not unusual

Been there did that...

One day the film crew shows up on my ramp. They want to get "Action shots" of pilots flying the aircraft.
They had us dress up all tactical like get in the aircraft and start it up. The guy with the camera filmed from below the aircraft, shooting up through the "Chin" bubble while we ran the aircraft flat pitch sitting on the ground. Those "Action/flying" scenes made it to be some recruitment advertisement.

All of that stuff is canned. You don't think Hollywood or any add firm photographers are going to get anywhere near a combat zone, do you?
When I think of those people, an older Don would have thought of a word that started with a P, has some S'es in it and ended in "ies"

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #34 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:44:37 AM »

Pansies

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:59:11 AM »

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on January 10, 2016, 11:44:37 AM

Pansies

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Like that...

Bigdave_185 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 10, 2016, 01:12:54 PM »

I seen that photo this morning and just couldn't resist, I had to poke the bear

Raising boys into RealMen!!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 10, 2016, 10:40:47 PM »

Quote from: Bigdave_185 on January 10, 2016, 01:12:54 PM

I seen that photo this morning and just couldn't resist, I had to poke the bear

Raising boys into RealMen!!

Understood

All's fair in love, war, and web sites!

BobbyB · « **Reply #38 on:** January 11, 2016, 12:51:45 PM »

Quote from: Bigdave_185 on January 10, 2016, 11:00:10 AM

I am just going to leave this right here

That's also the crawl phase of training for an air assault operation.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 17, 2016, 11:14:20 AM »

Whose Chinook?

Which Armee is this?

BobbyB · « **Reply #40 on:** January 17, 2016, 01:28:33 PM »

Quote from: Flyin6 on January 17, 2016, 11:14:20 AM

Whose Chinook?

Which Armee is this?

The hard to read writing on the side vaguely looks like German or Dutch.

Flyin6 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 17, 2016, 01:50:26 PM »

OOOHH, you're close

Been to Kandahar?

BobbyB · « **Reply #42 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:00:45 PM »

Quote from: Flyin6 on January 17, 2016, 01:50:26 PM

OOOHH, you're close

Been to Kandahar?

Yep

Flyin6 · « **Reply #43 on:** January 17, 2016, 04:32:42 PM »

They were parked there
Along with the Dutch cougars (new tricked out Pumas)

Flyin6 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 08, 2016, 08:44:21 AM »

Just ran across this A/R tape

Made my skin crawl all over again...Man I hated doing that!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chinook+aerial+refuelling&&view=detail&mid=E6F29050EF6C92D64EA8E6F29050EF6C92D64EA8&FORM=VRDGAR

cudakidd53 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 08, 2016, 11:27:11 AM »

Seems like they could give ya a longer hose? I'd give that a 9.5 on the pucker factor scale - what about you Don, you did it!

Flyin6 · « **Reply #46 on:** February 08, 2016, 03:17:18 PM »

Quote from: cudakidd53 on February 08, 2016, 11:27:11 AM

Seems like they could give ya a longer hose? I'd give that a 9.5 on the pucker factor scale - what about you Don, you did it!

Oh yea, I used to do that, and while blacked out on NVG...even in clouds! Those crazy C130 guys were airplane flying, and never realized helicopters are afraid of clouds!
Yea one night I was "On the hose" up around 13,000 near Albuquerque. I was fighting the thing because of turbulence and it had been a long flight to that point. So while I'm on the hose, all I'm looking at is the hose which you have to push in and maintain it within a 10 foot distance, and trying to stay on the wing horizon which means keep the little batwing engine oil cooler right on the horizon, all the while looking right down the dump tube. The rotor blades get down to 15'4" from the herc. So while all this is happening, he goes into a cloud and starts a turn. All I am looking at is that wing maybe 35 feet away and very close to my tip path plane so I wouldn't know if we were inside a volcano!

Kevin, the other pilot says, "Hang in there Big D, only about 120 degrees of turn left." "Turn? We in a turn?" is all I could say. Like I said I wouldn't have known if we were upside down. Aerial Refueling is really difficult to do. I was the 13th guy ever qualified in the US Army

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #47 on:** February 08, 2016, 07:13:30 PM »

Man, they make it look so easy in the movies......

Flyin6 · « **Reply #48 on:** February 08, 2016, 10:37:16 PM »

It's anything but easy

cj7ox · « **Reply #49 on:** February 19, 2016, 03:52:37 PM »

Quote from: Flyin6 on February 08, 2016, 03:17:18 PM

Quote from: cudakidd53 on February 08, 2016, 11:27:11 AM
Seems like they could give ya a longer hose? I'd give that a 9.5 on the pucker factor scale - what about you Don, you did it!
Oh yea, I used to do that, and while blacked out on NVG...even in clouds! Those crazy C130 guys were airplane flying, and never realized helicopters are afraid of clouds!
Yea one night I was "On the hose" up around 13,000 near Albuquerque. I was fighting the thing because of turbulence and it had been a long flight to that point. So while I'm on the hose, all I'm looking at is the hose which you have to push in and maintain it within a 10 foot distance, and trying to stay on the wing horizon which means keep the little batwing engine oil cooler right on the horizon, all the while looking right down the dump tube. The rotor blades get down to 15'4" from the herc. So while all this is happening, he goes into a cloud and starts a turn. All I am looking at is that wing maybe 35 feet away and very close to my tip path plane so I wouldn't know if we were inside a volcano!

Kevin, the other pilot says, "Hang in there Big D, only about 120 degrees of turn left." "Turn? We in a turn?" is all I could say. Like I said I wouldn't have known if we were upside down. Aerial Refueling is really difficult to do. I was the 13th guy ever qualified in the US Army

Wow. That's all I can say...