#4 - at least when humans do it you can normally blame it on them paying more attention to their phone than the world around - What do you figure his excuse was?
#4 Boing, boing, boing, splash! #8 No, the drive through window is on the outside of the building! #9 I would have kicked her too... Why do some people think they can waste other people's time?
# 1 Naw I'm good # 3 We had a crop-dusting helicopter crash this morning, seems like he hit a high tension power line.. Pilot is DOA # 7 When it absolutely has to be there overnight # 10 Hair raising experience JD
I crewed on Huey gunships in VN for 2-1/2 years but never flew on one of those shit hooks in my life and never will. Saw a number of rotor failures that resulted in deaths. Also my wife had a family member killed on Chinook in Iraq from a rotor issue, You can read about it at "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/378265/seven-fallen-angels-red-river-44." I won't get into it here but they blamed it on the Pilot which was total BS. They were the number two ship in a 7 ship formation and the crews behind them saw fire coming out on the engine. Ship went in straight down indicating rotor controls issues. There were a lot of other things but they were wash over. His name was Luke Mason and he was a nice kid and had asked me about flying on helicopters in VN. I told him to stay off those damn 'hooks as their sole purpose was to kill you and his job was to not let that happen. He is buried in Big Springs, Texas. One other thing... Like him or hate him Texas Governor George Bush had a Dallas office and invited Lukes family to come meet him. Bush and his wife spent several hours with then and had each of those girls pictures taken sitting in his lap. Treated them like royalty. Gave each of those girls (four as I recall) full scholarships to the University Of Texas. I also thing each girl was given a large cash gift that was put in their local banks. I didn't mean to make this as long as it turned out and I do apologize. Carry On!
Mark me down as despising the Chinook as well. You can't see out of them, you can't shoot out of them, and you can't get out of them and that's just for starters. The gooks shot one down with a Strela missile in 1972 while I was over there with loss of about 30 aircrew and passengers. And that's not the only way those contraptions can kill you. Here's a dandy little write-up from 1998 and if this doesn't scare hell out of you, it certainly should:
#2. I did exactly that but with a spear gun. The shaft bounced off the house and the top hit me right between the eyes. Fortunately mine at of the energy was gone for the spear top didn't embed too deep Sixty yrs later I still have the scar from the puncture.
#3 Seen that, been under one just like that more times then I can count. Re: some of the above comments. First time on one I looked up and hydrulic fluid was dripping. I said to one of the crew, ya got a leak. He said, When it stops leaking, then we get worried.
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#4 - at least when humans do it you can normally blame it on them paying more attention to their phone than the world around - What do you figure his excuse was?
ReplyDelete#9 this is your floor.
ReplyDeleteToo bad #9 didn't get shoved hard enough to take out the cameraman too. Stupid b*tch deserved a beat down and not just a shove.
Deletequeue the cry of: "it's a prank it's a prank it's a prank"...
Delete#4 Boing, boing, boing, splash!
ReplyDelete#8 No, the drive through window is on the outside of the building!
#9 I would have kicked her too... Why do some people think they can waste other people's time?
Hope all went well for Lisa yesterday.
Al_in_Ottawa
#1. Nope.
ReplyDelete#9: Not so much worried about her constantly opening the door, but scared to death worrying about the elevator cable snapping.
ReplyDeleteGet real, it's a freight elevator.
Delete# 1 Naw I'm good
ReplyDelete# 3 We had a crop-dusting helicopter crash this morning, seems like he hit a high tension power line.. Pilot is DOA
# 7 When it absolutely has to be there overnight
# 10 Hair raising experience
JD
9. who wouldn't have kicked her ass out of there?
ReplyDeleteNot mentiomed in yesterday's Ozzy post is that he died of assisted suicide in Switzerland.
ReplyDeleteA link, please.
DeleteNewspeak has an article insinuating that to be the case.
Delete#4 Marina Del Rey?
ReplyDeleteI crewed on Huey gunships in VN for 2-1/2 years but never flew on one of those shit hooks in my life and never will. Saw a number of rotor failures that resulted in deaths. Also my wife had a family member killed on Chinook in Iraq from a rotor issue, You can read about it at "https://www.dvidshub.net/news/378265/seven-fallen-angels-red-river-44." I won't get into it here but they blamed it on the Pilot which was total BS. They were the number two ship in a 7 ship formation and the crews behind them saw fire coming out on the engine. Ship went in straight down indicating rotor controls issues. There were a lot of other things but they were wash over. His name was Luke Mason and he was a nice kid and had asked me about flying on helicopters in VN. I told him to stay off those damn 'hooks as their sole purpose was to kill you and his job was to not let that happen. He is buried in Big Springs, Texas. One other thing... Like him or hate him Texas Governor George Bush had a Dallas office and invited Lukes family to come meet him. Bush and his wife spent several hours with then and had each of those girls pictures taken sitting in his lap. Treated them like royalty. Gave each of those girls (four as I recall) full scholarships to the University Of Texas. I also thing each girl was given a large cash gift that was put in their local banks. I didn't mean to make this as long as it turned out and I do apologize. Carry On!
ReplyDeleteSir, you have NOTHING to apologize for, and thank you for the story.
DeleteMark me down as despising the Chinook as well. You can't see out of them, you can't shoot out of them, and you can't get out of them and that's just for starters. The gooks shot one down with a Strela missile in 1972 while I was over there with loss of about 30 aircrew and passengers. And that's not the only way those contraptions can kill you. Here's a dandy little write-up from 1998 and if this doesn't scare hell out of you, it certainly should:
Deletehttps://www.chinook-helicopter.com/Flight_Fax/1998/Flight_Fax_May_1998.pdf
#3: Shithook rodeo.
ReplyDelete#4: Roos can swim with those tiny arms?
#9: Some people shouldn't be allowed out without a harness.
#6 - And we wonder how caged rabbits can multiply even when separated ...
ReplyDelete#9 - Enough of this shit - we have a meeting in 3 minutes !
#2. I did exactly that but with a spear gun. The shaft bounced off the house and the top hit me right between the eyes. Fortunately mine at of the energy was gone for the spear top didn't embed too deep Sixty yrs later I still have the scar from the puncture.
ReplyDelete#1. Congress has been released for summer break.
ReplyDelete#3 Seen that, been under one just like that more times then I can count. Re: some of the above comments. First time on one I looked up and hydrulic fluid was dripping. I said to one of the crew, ya got a leak. He said, When it stops leaking, then we get worried.
ReplyDeleteFacilities Maintenance contractor in Afghan. Been told the same, leaks mean they have fluid. They had to land one time outside the wire to fix a leak.
DeleteHad to pry a rabbit from my chain link fence this week. Leg got caught one hole below the body
ReplyDelete#1 Republicans in the House of Representatives
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was thinking it was all the Democrats in the entire Congress.
DeleteNaw, snakes are definitely liberals, socialist and communist, in other words demonkraps
DeleteJD
#1 The python breeder just before the everglades annual python hunt.
ReplyDelete8) "The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year."
ReplyDeleteExcellent content, and the comments are most instructive (as usual).
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