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I read the chapter in your book last eve about your test flight ( I think test flight is what ya called it) where you had the pilot go through a number of planned errors and the two motors ran away on the barley flying machine. The hard landing after spinning around and around down the runway. The reason Don has such grey hair lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I know this is not a hook video, but I figured this would give Dave some idea of what active duty pilots do and go through.the hawk you see in the video was piloted by my old brigade commander when she was the battalion commander of 2nd battalion 82 aviation regiment from Fort Bragg. Colonel (Ret) Carey Wagen. during the time of this video, she was the first female aviation task force commander in the army and conducting operations in Afghanistan. the mission that was being conducted in this video was an extraction of special forces from a mountain top (literally). at the conclusion of this mission, she was heavily praised by the SF community for her skill. correct me if I am wrong don, but very few pilots ever get training and have the stones big enough to actually execute this? let along the ability to control their aircraft on a point with that much updraft coming from multiple angles?https://youtu.be/APIpPijMy5k
Can you land a helicopter on a slope? That video looks intense for sure!!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60630352Not aChinook but not a DOTSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Which country did I just read about that placed a huge order for hooks?Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Recently watched 12 Strong on Netflix. Days after 9/11 the guys that went in on horseback! that had so much Chinook footage in it you MUST have known some of them. MIGHT have just been for the movie but they had one over 50K ft??
Even had his own stencil, popular.
Heard they ground them all. Something about non spec orings used for engine rebuilds causing fires.
Think they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.
Quote from: JR on August 31, 2022, 03:15:13 PMThink they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.Not Armee Hueys. We put them out to pasture in the mid 1990'sFunny how ever since then we needed a helicopter about the size of a Huey...
Quote from: Flyin6 on August 31, 2022, 10:58:35 PMQuote from: JR on August 31, 2022, 03:15:13 PMThink they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.Not Armee Hueys. We put them out to pasture in the mid 1990'sFunny how ever since then we needed a helicopter about the size of a Huey...Dont be too quick to say that, as the uh-1's are still used in whitesands
Quote from: Nate on August 31, 2022, 11:21:58 PMQuote from: Flyin6 on August 31, 2022, 10:58:35 PMQuote from: JR on August 31, 2022, 03:15:13 PMThink they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.Not Armee Hueys. We put them out to pasture in the mid 1990'sFunny how ever since then we needed a helicopter about the size of a Huey...Dont be too quick to say that, as the uh-1's are still used in whitesandsFleetwide, the UH-1H has been discontinuedTHere are still a couple to be found, but there is no flight school, Instructor pilot course or MOS progression that supports that airframe. Some gov't agencies purchased SuperHueys like the ones I flew in Kandahar and Kabul, but as far as a saturation or concentration of Huey airframes, no.The Army operates all sorts of aircraft that are not really on the books. I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find a US Army B-747 pilot. We fly a ton of different airframes, believe me!