To: Ben Hecks
Warmer weather drastically, negatively affects the Apache AH-64 and especially the OH-58D as well.
To: Mark Felton
True. Rotary wing AC lose a lot of lift when it gets hot. I was a white-knuckle passenger in an old Hiller H-23 many years ago when it chopped a fair amount of greenery out of a couple of trees on takeoff on a hot day in August.
135 posted on
03/03/2003 8:06:06 PM PST by
Ben Hecks
(O.K. men, there will be hot chow and dry socks on the objective)
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