LOL
Another aviation/military article written by a real (/sarcasm) enthusiast. Boy these journalism schools really teach ‘em how to do good research!
to wit: “ the Army is retiring the few single-bladed UH-1 variants ...”
single-BLADED !!!! ROFL
Watch one of those flop around.
Try single-ROTOR. Two blades; one rotor.
Sad to see it fly off into history. I miss the plop plop plop sound. Hated to see the Garrand go too, but the new stuff is much better so they tell me. Nostalgia, isn’t wonderful?
Salute to "Snake" Crandall.
Thinking about it now it seems like it was in another life.
Really? Cool! I want one.
The soundS of Hueys are vivd in the memories my childhood.
Goodbye old bird...
ping
Saw two of them this past weekend mothballed beside the road outside a podunk town in the mountain foothills of NC.
Here is a group that should get a mention in this thread:
Army Aviation Heritage Foundation
http://www.armyav.org/
They do some really cool airshow routines. I’ve been down to one of their practice sessions to watch.
I remember my one ride in a Huey. I was at Yakima Firing Center and had gotten a Red Cross message that my grandfather had died. My unit was at “Yak-Attack” doing desert training. They flew me back to Ft. Lewis so I could get home.
It was loud and not the smoothest ride in the world, but it helped get me home.
Goodbye, ‘Huey’...ya done good.
I lost some hearing running Medevacs in these birds when I was in the USN.
Crandall and his wingman, the late Maj. Ed Freeman, made 14 landings under fire and are credited with saving more than 70 soldiers.
Both received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Ia Drang. They’re memorialized in “We Were Soldiers,” a 2002 movie starring Mel Gibson that recounts the battle.
Crandall was an adviser to the movie crew. He last flew a Huey while working on the set.
Lest we forget. Absent Comrades.
More ignorant tripe. DUSTOFF was the callsign for Maj. Charles Kelly, originally by his unit 57th Air Evac, later used by all Medevac flights after Maj Kelly's death. Major Kelly set the example.
Major Charles L. Kelly was DUSTOFF and DUSTOFF was "Combat Kelly." The two became synonymous in Vietnam in 1964. As commander of the 57th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance), Kelly assumed the call sign "DUSTOFF." His skill, aplomb, dedication, and daring soon made both famous throughout the Delta. The silence of many an outpost was broken by his radio draw, "...this is DUSTOFF. Just checking in to see if everything is okay." And when there were wounded, in came Kelly "hell-bent for leather!" On 1 July 1964 Kelly approached a hot area to pick up wounded only to find the enemy waiting with a withering barrage of fire. Advised repeatedly to withdraw, he calmly replied to the ground element's advisor, "When I have your wounded." Moments later, he was killed by a single bullet. Kelly was dead but his "DUSTOFF" became the call sign for all aeromedical missions in Vietnam. "When I have your wounded" became the personal and collective credo of the gallant DUSTOFF pilots who followed him. Major Charles L. Kelly was inducted into the DUSTOFF Hall of Fame on 17 February 2001.