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To: vacuumbob

It’s a pretty big whirlygig!


133 posted on 04/17/2009 10:46:14 AM PDT by Just Lori (For the first time in my adult life, I am really afraid for my Country.)
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To: Just Lori

Ya, He loved it.
Flew the first 46’s into Iraq and flew the last one
out. No longer in service in the Navy.


135 posted on 04/17/2009 10:49:10 AM PDT by vacuumbob (The world is, FUBAR!)
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To: Just Lori

“Whirlymabob”

I seriously dont know how people have the presence of mind to fly those things in combat.

you move that stick an inch and those things tilt 45 degrees.
It has to take nerves of steel.

I dont know how the chinook works but twin rotors has to be a handful


136 posted on 04/17/2009 10:50:00 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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