[Yosemitest]

Control Tower Watch Supervisor/Senior Controller admiration for the Cobra AH-1.
One of the best fighting helicopters I've ever had the pleasure of mixing into my airport traffic area, at Osan, Kunsan, Seymour, Eglin and Duke, March, Plattsburgh, Columbus, Alpena, and Camp Douglas (Volk Field).
It'll fly, while that Apache pice of computerized garbage remains a hanger queen.

[octex]

...admiration for the Cobra AH-1.
One of the best fighting helicopters I’ve ever had the pleasure of mixing into my airport traffic area,...
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The Super Cobras (AH-1W and AH-1Z) being turned out before I retired in 2001 were REALLY badass combat aircraft!

I know the Apache is a good machine, but believe politics played heavily in their procurement.