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The only in flight emergancy I've ever been in was in a Chinock. We came into Memphis Navel Air Station on only one engine. Next day we took off and the made a loop and landed back where we started saying that they had an "unusual" viberation. How in the hell can you tell?
So, no thank you very much, I will stick with something else.
ChadThere are three ways to do things: The right way, the wrong way and my way.
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Crashed 3 times in helos in 32 years as a pax. One H-13 and two Blackhawks.
Last one in 1994 influenced my decision to retire. The Probabilities and Statistics Monster was catching up to my ass.
Keep doing hair-raising crap long enuf, Chad, and your number might come up.
[ 12-14-2005, 07:22 AM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]Comment
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Guessing, but looks like a CH-46 at the USMC Mountain School at Bridgeport, CA.
[ 12-14-2005, 07:16 AM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]Comment
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Just to clarify when I said we made a loop, I don't mean like what Phil posted, but rather we flew out a bit and came back to land.
Phil, I'm a pretty on the edge type of guy, but not sure if I want to do that.
ChadThere are three ways to do things: The right way, the wrong way and my way.
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When they wuz demonstrating the new "rigid rotor" system on choppers in Saigon....and doing loops fer a bunch of gen'ral types, Tex, the bell rep, tapped me on the shoulder and sed "let's go fer a ride".
We went to a 206 at the edge of the field....made a mad run in front of the ossifers, and Tex looped the damn thing right in front of them.....with me hanging on fer dear life......it was to prove that any idiot could loop a chopper, with or without a rigid rotor, as long as the loop was perfectly coordinated.....ain't many really good pilots like that..Wakan Tanka Kici Un
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started saying that they had an "unusual" viberation. How in the hell can you tell?
That's is a nice piece of airmanship there - some real teamwork too. The crew chief in the back is the pilot’s eyes, telling him where the big butt of that Chinook is and directing him to touchdown.
That's a CH-47C or D with the distinctive engine intake and exhaust. Hook pilots loved them as they were very stable and for a long time the only twin engine aircraft in the inventory. But god awful noisy (even by helicopter standards) and leaked like an old rotten hull. The old joke was “a Chinook that’s not leaking hydraulic fluid has leaked it all out.” And like a Cobra, they can’t be controlled without the hydraulic systems.
The Navy/Marine CH-46 Sea Knight is noticeably smaller with a different engine and fuel tank arrangement and only three landing gear.
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I took a minute and hunted it down. It's not as old as I thought (3/2004), but it is where I thought -- in Afghanistan. The Air Force pilot is Larry Murphy, and it is definitely a CH-47, not a -46 (I knew that from the pic -- I used to live practically next door to MCAS(H) Tustin.Comment
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An Air Force pilot at the controls of an Army helicopter?
NEVER!!
Many U.S. pilots from civilian and public-service helicopter operations are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among them is Larry Murphy, a 10-year veteran of Keystone Helicopter’s EMS unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. On active duty now with Company G, 104th Aviation Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, Murphy recently put his skills to the test by setting his CH-47’s tail on a rooftop to pick up Afghanis in custody. Those persons had been detained during Operation Mountain Resolve in Afghanistan’s Nuristan Province. Murphy is one of nine Keystone employees currently on active duty.Comment
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