[Poohbah]

Aircraft Maintenance. The story behind Poohbah's Rappel: the squadron Sergeant Major "invited" Poohbah and a couple of other hapless young Lance Corporals to join him in rappelling down from the platform above the hangar doors. We did it, and it was YEE-HAH! while it lasted...

I'm not afraid of heights; I'm not even afraid of falling. I merely have an appropriate degree of respect for the consequences of a high-velocity ground impact. Those hangars are about ready to fall down of their own accord...

[Rockiesrider]

Very witty post poobah the sound of "thud" doesn't always mean a mortor round is out.

[Slam]

Roger.

Was out there several years ago...just before they closed the doors. They were making a movie in one hangar and the inside of the other looked like a natural wildlife system. The Enviro-Nazis would of been happy...despite the fact that nature was thriving in what could be called a closed loop haz-mat hell.

Remember that place as a thriving rotary wing base. Remember staring up at the sky around there and seeing nothing but helicopters. Remember staring up at the sky inside those hangars and seeing the carefully designed complex mass of wooden beams and cross members.

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

Everything changes...but some things need to be preserved...even if it makes no sense at all.