On Oct 7, 4:56*pm, John H Rant wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:11:36 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Oct 7, 2:59*pm, John H wrote:
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:31:30 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsX8DHBUIY8

And this is taking it easy.

Very easy. They were obviously not worried about ground fire. Wussies.

Yeah. I appreciate those who did, and was glad I didn't.

High five to those who did.

It sure made landings from 1500 feet a lot more exciting!

Yes I'm sure it did. We did a lot of low mountain and river flying
though. Weird to be banking hard either way and if sitting as a door
gunner, to be looking at the trees no more than 75 feet below you.

But when I look at it. Compared to the Black Hawk and Apache, the huey
was about as close to a VW bus as you could get.

they were unsophisticated, easy to maintain, and just plain tough.
and for what they were, they did there job rather well.