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To: PsyOp; Jeff Head; archy
"Haven't most helicopter pilots done something similar at one point? :~)"

Some military expertise and corroboration required here, s'il vous plait.
5 posted on 07/17/2002 11:46:39 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy; TADSLOS
Seem to remember reading about some army guys getting in trouble for landing at a mcdonalds in Germany during the 80's...
7 posted on 07/17/2002 12:47:21 PM PDT by fourdeuce82d
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To: swarthyguy
"Haven't most helicopter pilots done something similar at one point? :~)"

Some military expertise and corroboration required here, s'il vous plait.

The skycrane crew who swiped the post commander's wife's Volkswagen at Ft Knox and deposited it atop a three-story barracks roof comes to mind....That backfired when the next day, a Saturday when training schedules were relaxed and most folks were free on the afternoon, only one unit was capable of getting the thing off the roof: the guys with the Skycranes....I expect a Blackhawk *might* get that job done now, but I wouldn't bet on it [the CH47s were grounded worldwide at the time]

One of the neater bits of rotorhead expertise I recall was the short-lived Army LOH demonstration in which an OH-6 pilot played yo-yo with a cable spool beneath his loach. The budget cutbacks of the 1970s killed that display, but for a couple of years, it was a real crowd-pleaser around the airshow circuit. And you know how the Golden Knights hate to have anyone steal their thunder....

...further witness better sayeth not.... -

15 posted on 07/20/2002 8:09:03 AM PDT by archy
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