| Re: Bush Flying, pt 3 - Beaver 11.jpg (1/1) |
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| Miloch (Miloch_member@newsguy.com) |
2019/01/23 20:47 |
In article <XnsA9E0D03D9FDB1noemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell Holman
says...
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:q2aje70hfl@drn.newsguy.com:
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>> In article <XnsA9E088E3C86Dnoemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell
>> Holman says...
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>>>Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote in
>>>news:52eh4e9elslvirmv8ceak36o8ddqj7mkts@4ax.com:
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>>>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:39:48 -0600, Mitchell Holman
>>>> <noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> De Havilland made some very impressive aircraft. Thanks for
>>>> posting.
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>>> "Anything you can close the door on"
>>>was the byword for what a Beaver could
>>>carry..........
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>> My aviation company in VNam had three of them in addition to
>> helicopters. I wound up about as far south as you can go in SVietnam
>> and at midnight had to fly one back to Saigon...the site was unsecure
>> so we couldn't stay overnight. The pilot was fixed wing qualified but
>> outranked me...a first lieutenant...he gave me the controls to fly as
>> soon as we were airborne while he went to sleep!
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>> As there was no electricity in those days the only visible lights on
>> the horizon were the city of Saigon in the far distance...had to fly
>> on instruments almost the entire flight...easier to do than in a
>> helicopter.
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>> Flew unto an island, landing it on a open field...you can't lock the
>> doors so we took what we could while visiting some of our
>> personnel...what was left in the U-6 was stolen! Found out later the
>> Vietnamese name of the island translated to "Island of Thieves"
>>
>> On another flight, the prop seal broke while in flight causing oil to
>> splatter all over the windscreen...since we couldn't very well, the
>> pilot had to land while sticking his head out the side window to see
>> where he was landing as he was bringing it in.
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> If Lindergh could land with no
>forward view, well..........
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>> ...but great plane...reliable radial engine...will go anywhere...carry
>> just about anything...forgiving to fly but loud!
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> The one I flew in Texas was of
>the "check the gas and fill the oil"
>variety.
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One of the U-6 pilots in my unit got a mission at 5PM...was so pissed off about
the late afternoon mission, he forgot to pull the gust locks off the elevator
and stalled out during take-off...pan-caked it and the damage was high enough
for it to be considered a "major accident"...it was his second accident in the
same aircraft...worse part for me was that I was the unit's "Aviation Safety
Officer"...one of my many many extra duties.
There was a small fire with the pilot injured...never heard from him after that
one.
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