The FReeper Foxhole Studies the Bell UH-1 "Huey" - June 4th, 2004

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Helicopters



A helicopter is an aircraft that can take off and land vertically. Also called a "rotary aircraft," it can hover and rotate in the air and can move sideways and backwards while aloft. It can change direction very quickly and can stop moving completely and begin hovering.

A helicopter flies by means of the thrust that is created by the rotation of the blades of a main rotor that is mounted on a shaft above the fuselage, or body, of the aircraft. As the blades rotate, an airflow is created over them, resulting in lift. This raises the helicopter. A pilot maneuvers the helicopter by changing the pitch, or angle, of the rotor blades as they move through the air.

An engine is used to create the force needed to lift the aircraft and its passengers and cargo. Reciprocating gasoline and gas turbine engines are the most common types used on helicopters.



All helicopters need a way to counteract the torque produced by the main rotor. If this were not done, the rotor would turn in one direction, and the fuselage would turn in the opposite direction. Usually, a small tail rotor is used to produce a sideways thrust that prevents the fuselage from rotating. By increasing or decreasing the thrust produced by the tail rotor, the pilot can steer the helicopter to the left or right. Another way to counteract thrust is with two main rotors that turn in opposite, or counter-rotating, directions. Each rotor cancels the torque produced by the other. No tail rotor is needed in this type of helicopter.

Components of a helicopter

The pilot controls the helicopter by using rudder pedals, which turn the helicopter to the right or left, a cyclic pitch stick that tilts that helicopter forward, backward, or sideways, and a collective pitch stick that allows the helicopter to climb and descend vertically.

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/helicopter/DI27.htm
www.fas.org
www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/modern_flight/mf54.htm - USAF Museum
www.vtol.org/History.htm.
www.redstone.army.mil/history/aviation/factsheets/uh1.html
http://pacificcoastairmuseum.org/2002Site/aircraftPCAM/UH1_Huey/UH1_Huey_home.asp

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The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

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[Diver Dave]

Very interesting. thanks
I had a bil who flew Cobras. Three tours in Vietnam. Thrice wounded, returned from 'Nam and later killed in an auto accident by a drunk Arab college student.

[gatorbait]

You all do know , when the last Blackhawk is flown to the boneyard, there'll be a Huey waiting to pick the crew up.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.

We have som showers and thunderstorms in the area this morning. No severe weather but there is some lightning with some of this so the computer will be on and off thoughtout the day.

[Northern Yankee]

I flew in Hueys back in my Air Force days. Our chopper pilots would take us out to the Minuteman missle sites while stationed in Montana.

We actually went down on the deck to scatter a herds of antelope. What a ball we had.

You could hear those choppers coming a mile away.

Good Morning all!

[The Mayor]

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. —Proverbs 27:6

A true friend will put a finger on your faults without rubbing them in.

[Soaring Feather]

Morning all!

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies. Flag-o-gram.

Daddy's home

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- Airman 1st Class Ryan Bryson hugs his son, Chad, for the first time in four months. Airman Bryson returned from Iraq on March 6. He is assigned to the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Lanie McNeal)

I'm bigger here 3.8Mb

[Soaring Feather]

Morning PE.

Heart warming photo this morning. Our military give so much to protect our freedom.

Some give all.

[Valin]

On this Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on June 04:
1694 Francois Quesnay France, economist, leader of the Physiocrats
1738 George III English king during American Revolution (1760-1820)
1867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Finland, military hero, Pres (1944-46)
1877 Heinrich Wieland German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
1908 Rosalind Russell actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling)
1917 Charles Collingwood Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917 Howard Metzenbaum (Sen-D-Ohio)
1917 Robert Merrill Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924 Dennis Weaver Joplin Mo, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
1926 Robert Earl Hughes became heaviest known human (486 kg)
1932 John Barrymore Jr Beverly Hills Calif, actor (Pantomine Quiz)
1936 Bruce Dern Winnetka Ill, actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, The Cowboys)
1937 Freddie Fender Mexico, country singer (Feelings)
1944 Michelle Phillips singer/actress (Mamas & Papas)
1945 Gordon Waller Scotland, singer (Peter & Gordon-World Without Love)
1952 Parker Stevenson Phila Pa, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
1965 Andrea Jaeger Chicago, tennis player (retired as a teenager)

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Deaths which occurred on June 04:
1039 Konrad II, King of Germany (1024-39), dies
1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies
1792 John (Gentleman Johnny) Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies
1798 Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Ital Adventure/spy/librarian, dies
1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies
1954 Harold Hoffman (Gov-NJ), dies at 58
1973 Murray Wilson father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55

1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini of Iran, dies at 86 of internal bleeding

1990 Jack Gilford comedic actor, dies at 82 of stomach cancer

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1967 ROBINSON LEWIS M.---SAGINAW MI.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 04/16/99]
1968 BRICE ERIC PARKER---ROCKY MOUNT NC.
1970 HUGGINS BOBBY GENE---TROY AL.
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/03/97]
1970 WILSON HARRY TRUMAN---GRAND PRAIRIE TX.
1975 CONWAY ROSEMARY A.
[08/75 RELEASED]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
780 -BC- 1st total solar eclipse reliably recorded by Chinese
1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
1783 Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 Mme Thible becomes 1st woman to fly (in a balloon)

1789 - US constitution goes into effect

1792 Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1862 Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tenn
1878 Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1900 M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #456 Abnoba
1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
1912 Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1918 M Wolf discovers asteroid #894 Erda
1919 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
1927 1st Ryders Cup (Golf), US beats England 9-2
1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #2066 Palala
1940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops
1940 German forces enter Paris

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II

1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
1943 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
1944 1st submarine captured & boarded on high seas-U 505
1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1967 Emmy Awards-Monkees win for comedy series
1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1972 Angela Davis, black communist/, acquitted of killing a white guard
1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2494 Inge, #2797 Teucer, #2870 Haupt, #3169 Ostro & #3726
1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court
1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
1992 U.S. Postal officials announced that the young, 1950s-era Elvis Presley portrait was chosen overwhelmingly over the older, Las Vegas-style Elvis

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Botswana : Commonwealth Day
Finland : Flag Day (1867)
International : Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Tonga : Independence Day
Massachusetts : Teachers' Day (Sunday)
Ireland : Bank Day (Monday)
Bahamas : Labour Day (Friday)
New Zealand : Queen's Birthday (Monday)
Western Australia : Foundation Day (1838)(Monday)
National Frozen Yogurt Week (Day 5)
Public Relations Week (Day 6)

US : Donut Day (All Hail the mighty Donut!)
Donuts will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no donuts.

Dairy Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of SS Quirinus & Optatus
Christian : Feast of St Saturnine
Unification Church : Day of all things
RC : Commemoration of St Francis Caracciolo, confessor
Ang, RC : Ember Day

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Religious History
1820 Birth of Elvina M. Hall, American Methodist poet who authored the hymn, 'Jesus Paid It All' (a.k.a. 'I Hear the Savior Say').
1873 Birth of Charles F. Parham, American charismatic church pioneer. In 1898 he founded a Bible training school in Topeka, Kansas, where the modern Pentecostal movement began in 1901.
1878 Birth of Frank N. Buchman, American exponent of the social gospel. He founded the First Century Christian Movement (1921), the Oxford Group (1929) and the Moral Re-Armament Movement (1938).
1900 Birth of Nelson Glueck, American Jewish archaeologist. Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, he explored and dated over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near East.
1948 In Manilla, the first missionary radio station built in the Philippines by the Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) first went on the air.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream."

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Actual Newspaper Headlines...
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

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Why did the Chicken cross the Road...
M.C.Escher:
That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the time.

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Dumb Laws...
Switzerland:
A man may not relieve himself while standing up, after 10 P.M.

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A Cowboy's Guide to Life...
Tellin' a man to git lost and makin' him do it are two entirely different propositions.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Snippy.

Good subject today. The sounds of a Huey still have memories attached.

[SAMWolf]

Morning DD.

Sorry to hear about your BIL. Things sure work out in strange ways sometimes.

[SAMWolf]

You all do know , when the last Blackhawk is flown to the boneyard, there'll be a Huey waiting to pick the crew up.

You're probably right. Great sentiment. IMHO they'll never "replace" the Huey.

[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C.

You guys seem to be getting more than your share of storms this year.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Northern Yankee. I have some fond memories of hitching rides in a Huey. There were some real cowboy pilots flying those.:-)

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Mayor.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Feather!

[SAMWolf]

Morning PE. Great picture! Those homecoming ones always get to me.