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To: cll
There are plenty of antique airplane shows, but have you ever seen an antique helicopter show?

Helicopters to not fly; they beat the air into submission.

Helicopters are like having a pet snake, cute, useful sometimes, ego-building, but ready to bite you at any time. It's not that helicopters want to bite you, but like snakes, that's just what they do.

There are no such things as helicopters. There are only 20,000 spare parts flying in close formation.

In Tay Ninh, RVN, I once watched a young warrant officer helicopter pilot take 23 swats at a fly with a fly swatter, miss every time, then announce that he was ready to fly me to Nui Ba Den! Think about it.

20 posted on 01/26/2009 6:14:09 AM PST by MindBender26 (ATTN: Rev. Lowery: Sorry 'bout that, but I am White, and I got it Right years ago!)
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To: MindBender26

The question is, if I’m both a rotary and a fixed wing pilot, am I bipolar?


22 posted on 01/26/2009 6:32:15 AM PST by cll ("Crisis is the rallying cry of a tyrant" - James Madison)
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To: MindBender26
We were young and crazy then, but everyone that was on the ground said when we came in with mini guns firing,60s covering them it sure made them feel good. May god wrap these Families in His Arms today and the coming times ahead. 17th AHC 67 68
27 posted on 01/26/2009 8:55:56 AM PST by easternsky
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To: MindBender26
hey MB, your probably familiar with this documentary, you can catch it on the history channel or the military channel when it comes around again.....In The Shadow of The Blade..
it's an excellent account of the Huey during our time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFhjtYxXPs

45 posted on 01/27/2009 4:50:12 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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