Two Cents I gotta say it. I looked at the photo and the H46 blades are backwards. Viewed from the top, the forward head turns counter c...
I Understand "...those same ww2 folks treated me with an enormous amount of disrespect when i dared attend a vfw or am leg meeting and you can se...
Chopper Down I just watched it as my wife was able to save it on some type of gadget we have attached to the TV. Tribute is an accurate desc...
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Say again... ...that part about the 240 Knot approach and 6000 foot rate of descent until 200 feet AGL! I suppose they wait until after suns...
A thought... Paul: Has your Marine Corps history every been recorded either orally or in writing? If not, maybe we should work toward d...
Update, Please For those of us who are out of date: RE: The Photo of ET 16 * What is the box for just below the painted number 3400? ...
Naval Safety Center Data Base NAVAL SAFETY CENTER AVIATION DATA RETRIEVAL & ANALYSIS DIVISION (CODE 15) 375 A ST. NORFOLK, VA. 23511...
Just a thought I wonder if the Naval Safety Center in Norfolk could help: There is a link there for FOI - Freedom of Information. ...
V-22 Modification So... ...does this mean that one AK47 round can take it out?
Google As I understand it, once you are on a search engine server you are there forever. My attitude is that my posts are public just as my ...
Sign Me Up! I have epipesy. asthma and cancer. However, yesterday I did 15 pull ups, 50 sit ups and ran 5 miles in 40 minutes. I'm fit....
Unanswered Questions I am still looking for some answers as to how the Osprey works: * In hover mode, does it have a swashplate and other ac...
Update My last flight with HMM 161 out of Marble Mountain was August 3, 1970, so it could have been HMM 161. To my recollection, they left for C...
Medevac That mission, if in daylight, was probably flown by what we called "Baldy Medevac." It also could have been flown by HMM 161, call s...
Thanks I live in Norfolk, VA. One would think that the local paper would cover a deployment like this. They did, but but poorly. This ...
wanna be I flew as a pilot for HMM 263 IN 1970. I never saw a Warrent Officer pilot. As a 1st Lt., I probably held the lowest rank among th...
Combat Art You should contact Mike Leahy, It's better than a photo. Mike has done some custom work for me where he adds the squadron logo,...
Jungle Penetrator The sad truth is that we had a number of cable failures during that time period. The cables were failing from within from ...
I hate to sound ignorant... ... but can you explain "3-3.5g available, flares/chaff, APR-39 and in the case of the CV-22, SIRFC/DIRCM" in languag...
OK I'll bite Just what is "The Silver Rose Award?"