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"Steve Barlow" <steve@steve-barlow.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 22 Sep 2004 10:36:52 GMT, buzcutt454@aol.comByteMe (Popeye NCAT3)
wrote:
>
>
> >>That's interesting. There's a huge Chinook here today. Coincidence?
> >
> > I used to love flying on those things...
> >
> I used to hate flying on them.
>
> Two plus hours wearing a survival suit, crushed into a seat that narrow
you had
> to sit sideways and that close to the seat in front your knees touched it.
> Then, when you did arrive at the rig in the middle of the North sea, if
the
> weather had blown up, back you went to Aberdeen.
> Those things should never have been used for passenger transport.
> All you end up with is 44 pissed off people.
> They were withdrawn after a drive failure led to one somersaulting and a
rotor
> chopped its way through the passenger cabin


Bummer.

The helicopter dudes call that "turned 'em into a milkshake".

I love 'em.

Shakes the fillings in your teeth loose, and absolutely the most awesome
display of horsepower I have ever felt.

Our pilot brought it in WFO, threw the nose up, pulled pitch, and then
slapped us onto the deck. I don't know how many G's we pulled, but I
couldn't have picked up my arms.

I am pretty sure Marine Corps CH46 shithooks are similar (different than
CH47's) to the ones you guys use for transport.

They used to fly us on and off the platforms in Alaska in souped up Hueys'
with inflations skirts.