Posted on 10/05/2013 12:32:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Great fun posts you two.
Mrs S out of town obviously because I stayed up after my FR curfew. Turning on episode 5 of the “Sopranos”. Nighters!
Now you two have fun.
Sweet dreams, CLint :-) Your secret is safe with me...I wont tell Mrs S you were up having fun LOL ;-)
Bookmarked, thanks!
What Mr. Huey Hotshot did should have gotten his @ss FEB’d & court martialed right then & there.
With semirigid rotor systems (Huey, AH-1G, OH58A) your worst nightmare is the rotor system “unloading”. Wild maneuvering (like rolling inverted) can impart negative G’s & then the blades instead of flexing upward are suddenly forced downward & stressed in the opposite direction they were designed for & then everything from mast bumping to slicing the tail boom happens & then it’s sayonara GI.
Now...an RTT (return to target) is different. You spot something just beneath you through the chin bubble. You roll the A/C inverted & at the same time pull every last ounce of pitch and point the nose at the target, then the induced rotor thrust outweighs the fall of the A/C & then you roll out either level or aimed at what you had just spotted beneath your A/C.
Cobra pilots are trained in this. Hotdogs in a Huey or OH-58 will attempt it. RTT enables the attack bird to engage a target without making a turn.
Now... I learned to fly Hueys on UH-1Bs & UH-1Ds. Main difference between the D & H model is shaft horsepower, 1300 or so on the H which not only means greater lift but reduces the occurrence of main rotor rpm bleed off which is a huge factor in high density altitude environments (moist hot air produces less lift). Hotshot no doubt assumed that all that extra shaft horsepower would also prevent rotor unloading when he did his dangerous maneuver.
Don’t know where this is going except I was too scared of my own limitations to ever do stupid things in the aircraft. Especially with pax on board. Something about old pilots & bold pilots don’t mix.
Anyway, neat story. So Roger Ramjet claimed a complete 360 loop? From the noises you describe he no doubt overtorqued the main rotor system & the tail rotor as well. They should have made him buy that helicopter & I wonder why the AVUM or AVIM maintenance officers didn’t find something really fishy in a brand new A/C getting trashed that quickly and anyway I wonder what remarks he entered in the logbook, that should have tipped everybody off.
I had a boss in the 70s who was a two tour volunteer medevac pilot, he got to experience the Tet offensive too.
Let me get this straight...open air memorial in DC is *closed* to the public. No money to pay federal workers. A path is followed to walk by and pay respects at the memorials. Never been there but have viewed pics. This memorial and others are shut down with barrycades. BUT THERE ARE PARK RANGERS ON DUTY TO KEEP PEOPLE AWAY??!!! WTH.!!!??? Have we now entered Alice’s domain of wonderland?
Perhaps they’re being scrubbed.
Except when he was doing covert airborne scuba ranger missions in Cambodia.
Damn, is that ever a powerful graphic to highlight BO’s priorities!
That fall, they offered us a paper to sign releasing us of all further military obligations (along with any future benefits which went along with it) in return for checking out. About 90% of us signed the paper and got out. A few of my friends and classmates chose to stay and compete for the dwindling number of military positions. Most of us signed with mixed emotions.
If this country is ever to be righted again, I suppose a similar program could be instituted to clear out the "openly gay" element.
USS ARIZONA MEMORIAL IS SHUT.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/01/3664026/federal-government-shutdown-ripples.html
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