It never leaves

[redcatcherb412]

Its been 56 years and yet just the sound of these birds can get the adrenaline going and the pulse quickening.

Slick drivers

If you've never sat on the floor of a Huey holding on to the pilot seat frame as your slick was running balls out a hundred feet above the jungle headed into a hot firefight, door guns, mini guns and rocket pods blazing. Well, then at 18 years old you just never experienced one of the most intense adrenaline dumping events in your short life.

[Laslo Fripp]

It’s amazing the nice toys the government will give you to play with if you dedicate your life to them, literally.

[JBW1949]

A “slick” did not have external guns or rocket pods...That’s why it was called a “slick”...No wind drag from external weapons...

[redcatcherb412]

Well aren’t you the armament nomenclature f’kng genius lol.

There was never a gunship allowed to carry troops either I guess, would F’k with the terminology.

[JBW1949]

Sorry you have such a problem with the truth....

[redcatcherb412]

of course hanging a .50 out the door instead of an external pylon meant it wasn't a slick either. Don't recall any high speed troop insertions that were flying so fast that wind drag was a problem. Much less the doors off and troops all but hanging out the doors would ever cause drag. But, could be I guess.

[JBW1949]

Just posted the reason the chopper was called a “slick”...

There’s reasons one was called a “slick” and one was called a “gunship”...

It’s simple as that...