Can somebody tell DOD to buy helicopters that work?

[orezok]

The retreating blade goes slower.

That’s exactly what limits a helicopters speed. It is called retreating blade stall.

 

[YLee Kioti]

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they got to get towed up to hunnert knots to wind up the rubber bands.....then let'm go and watch da fun..........

good thang that ain't no Chinook they use two big rubber bands.......:cool2:

 

[YLee Kioti]

While stationed at NAS Dallas in the USAR, I was a truck mechanic for an aviation unit that repaired OH 58s and UH 1s. Next door was a TNG unit that flew Chinooks. We went to take a flight on a Chinook and as we walked in, we noticed hydraulic oil seepage from a few lines. Concerned, we ask the crew chief about it and was told "if there isn't hydraulic seeping, don't get on it to fly, because there ain't none in it".

Truth right der bruh.....most of my pics from Germany are in hyd. fluid....and ask any hooker how he enjoys pumping the accumulator to crank up the APU.......
especially if it don't fire up the first time.....:shocked:

 

[YLee Kioti]

My nephew is in special ops as a pilot of chinooks. Night Stalkers is the operations group.

And that there is one bad azz group.....if you know what they do.....for those of us that worked on these birds......they have taken NOE flying to new levels....
and I though the Nam pilots were nuts.......lol...yeah and they were for their era....we fly under the Verazano bridge in NY..once.....ssssh....sorry, done forgot the tail number I crewed that day...
course all our avionics and instruments were analog.....now a days they gots the good stuff...makes me jealous.....to miss out on all the new gadgets in them now-a-days....

anyone else miss the smell of JP4 burning during start-up......while doing your walk around inspection with a fire bottle in one hand.....
now I better understand old farts that i talked with when I was young...now I are one of those old farts.....:laughing:

 

[Diggin It]

^^^ Somewhere I have a picture of an F4 at 50' in AB. When it went over, the trees all parted.

 

[Citydude]

And that there is one bad azz group.....if you know what they do.....for those of us that worked on these birds......they have taken NOE flying to new levels....
and I though the Nam pilots were nuts.......lol...yeah and they were for their era....we fly under the Verazano bridge in NY..once.....ssssh....sorry, done forgot the tail number I crewed that day...
course all our avionics and instruments were analog.....now a days they gots the good stuff...makes me jealous.....to miss out on all the new gadgets in them now-a-days....

anyone else miss the smell of JP4 burning during start-up......while doing your walk around inspection with a fire bottle in one hand.....
now I better understand old farts that i talked with when I was young...now I are one of those old farts.....:laughing:

When my brother told me he made special ops and flies chinooks at night, I had to have him repeat what he said. Sounded nuts at the time.

 

[NorTracNY]

It's wonderful reading the post which show the respect so many on TBN have for our military.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Green Lives Matter:thumbsup:

 

[aczlan]

No helicopters (that I've seen) around here getting towed, but I saw a plane being towed the other week


Aaron Z

 

[Doofy]

No helicopters (that I've seen) around here getting towed, but I saw a plane being towed the other week
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Aaron Z

I've seen bugs being towed too!