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I don't think so. Marble Mountain wasn't really a mountain. In Kentucky I'm sure we'd even have called it a knob. But it was definitely a rise from the rest of the area and not nearly that populated. It also was surrounded by water on three sides. That view appears to be looking North and West on the coast and the water's edge of Da Nang itself. The outcropping at the top of the coast shown should lead to the base of a mountain range (whose name I can't recall) and was on the road way up to Phu Bai.

Been there Done That! With Yankee Whiskey and Yankee Tango.

The plane looks great to me! Though after years of flying in and out of Detroit, NorthWorst is what I always call that airline. If they put their domestic gates any farther away from the main terminal they'd be in Ohio.

True. But I was just reading on BLOOMBERG about a 737-800 going off the runway due to issues caused by recent maintenance! Yet another 737 issue! Perhaps it's time every airline starts looking at each and every alternative to a 737! BTW: The screenshots are great.

I wasn't able to actually fly the event. But I have surely enjoyed all the comments and flight data it created. Should any entrants decide to describe their various return trips I feel it'd be really a great addition to the already successful Rally!

This is certainly an interesting topic! As an old pilot reading the continuous accident reports my thoughts of flying commercial have changed hugely in the last several months. After all the recent news coverage of mistake after mistake, I'm not sure I'd be real comfortable in the back of any commercial aircraft today. And just when I think it can't get any worse, I just read an article in FLYING magazine bragging on how wonderful the Joby Aviation prototype eVTOL aircraft is. If you thought the Osprey was complicated you ain't seen nothing yet! "Six rotors driven by 12 motors direct both vertical and forward thrust, as well as the means of flight control." "The aircraft also uses ailerons and ruddervators (Akin to the Vision Jet.)" "But those are sectioned, with two sets of aileron-style controls on the wings and three sections of ruddervators on the V-shaped tail." And yes, this entire device is also battery powered with electric motors of a home fashioned design which apparently no one else has used before!! Check out FLYING issue 946. The cover picture by itself scares me! I've enjoyed living almost directly under a huge designated aircraft practice area for years. But I don't even want that thing flying anywhere near where I live!

Makes me glad I'm not flying in the Corps today! I'd rather chance my life in an inverted flying observation chopper, yes they tried to sell the Corps on a model of chopper that did exactly that in the 1960's and I was a passenger once on s demo flight, than an Osprey.

I got so used to flying 46's with an aerial .50 pointed out each side, they almost don't look real without them. But speaking of logos. We Purple Foxes all had fox stencils and tones of cans of purple spray paint. And we marked anything that wasn't moving in Vietnam on a regular basis. Everyone there at the time knew who HMM-364 and our H-34s were. But they never were able to stop us from painting a Purple Fox on their stuff!!

Sweet Shots! Having said that, RW the spate of OSPREY incidents has put me off the swing motors, and props process.

+1! More proof that flight simming isn't just around, it's still growing and improving! Michael BTW: No longer being stationed in So. Cal, I miss a lot of friends and sights, But I sure don't miss the smog!

As well as any I've found as well.

Nice job of continuing on Kit. I used knew some great bars in those islands decades ago. Some of them even sold the occasional legal product!!

Or to his Pilot Relief Tube.

This old H-46 driver who flew 46/s both in the US and in the Vietnam conflict with HMM 164 and HMM 165 has never seen that paint scheme on a H-46 or H-34 either. As bright and easy to target as that seems, I'd sure not want to fly with that paint in combat!! Give me the older dull and non-shiny faded green or even gray any day!

Nice flight Kit! Though I agree, there doesn't seem to be much detail in the landscape. I guess they didn't think there would be a lot of traffic using it there. Michael

SWEET!! Though I personally prefer wheeled gear on choppers. And I'm pretty partial to Boeing Vertol products as well as the older Boeing fixed wings Having said that, if it's a 737, I ain't going!

FSX P3D.

Great event!! Even though I didn't have the time to formally compete I've enjoyed all these posts and yes, flown the whole route as well. I hope life is near enough to normal to compete in the next one! And yes, I can't imagine there won't be a next one!! (Western Europe?) Lots of great sites and tons of great scenery there. Michael

You'll probably see her more often at any KC Chiefs event than you'll ever see her on stage. At least till/if it happens that she and Kelce split up or marry. Or the celeb normal, marry then split up.

Hey learning is what it's all about. As I've told many a newbie, flying is 95% mental.

Nice, We had an occasional visitor at MCAF Santa Ana, One of the 60's era Goodyear blimps would float in from time to time. And yes, they were a fun ride and we all tried to snag a ride on one, especially over the beaches when the beauties were out sunning. Choppers and a ton of GA craft got reported for getting too low and close to the beaches. But the blimp was always welcomed there.

That's certainly a great link. And from what I've read of it to date. it seems very accurate. My point is, it hugely hacks me off that someone going to all the trouble of publishing a several pound coffee table book about aviation history would ignore such an important part of Vietnam War or even Marine Corps chopper history as the 46 obviously is! And no H-47s and H-46's are not the same aircraft. In fact the H-46 was the first of that type, not the 47. It would be dishonest to ignore Omaha Beach or B-27s in a history of WWII in Europe and it is dishonest to ignore the importance of H-46s in Vietnam. Especially when you consider what such a hefty tome must cost to buy! I'm upset my library tax money went into a book that obviously inaccurate! And as wrong as that book is on something as simple as ignoring a hugely important chopper, without having been there and done that who's to say anything else in the entire book is remotely accurate either?? I consider that book as having printed lying or at best inaccurate history. It's not as ignorant as calling any US veteran serving or who served in Vietnam a Baby Killer of course, but it is still inaccurate! While in the Corps I enjoyed most of my time flying H-34s. and was petrified of mechanical failure during my unwanted time as a passenger in a HH-37, But my point is there were way too many H-46 combat hours flown by Marines in Vietnam and in other hot spots around the world for them to be ignored by such a major publication altogether!!

+1! And it's a great deal at twice the no cost price.

That's true of about every site, Until it is an issue! There are those out there all over the world finding new ways into our sites and onto our computers every day! I try to stay very vigilant and do every update I hear about, But even then from time to time one slips under the rug. Do us all a favor. Spend time doing scans on a hugely frequent basis!

Good point! I should have mentioned that. It was rather a strange feeling to be traveling in water like a motor boat in a 46. We did that more than once while offloading Green Berets and Montyards into rivers in places were we never went while under the cover of the over hanging trees. We'd turn around in the river and motorboat back to where the overhanging trees weren't prevalent, and take off to fly back to our refuel point. Then after a few days we'd return to that same river where we never went and motorboat along with a long knotted line hung out the back. The troops we had dropped off days before would grab the line and pull themselves back into the cabin. If they missed the line on the way in, they hoped to catch it on the the return trip out. Having said that, your comment about seals and drain plugs was spot on. Every 46 I made a water landing or cruise in did tend to seep water. I'd not want to have to spend much time in the water without the rotors turning! On another topic. I just checked out and read a library book called FLIGHT 100 YEARS OF AVIATION. This book probably weighs 10 pounds or so and goes back to early balloons. They even found one (1) page to mention "HELICOPTERS IN VIETNAM." That single pages lists seven(7) different choppers. The H-46 was not even listed there or in the index. They mentioned and had pictures of the H-34, OH-6A, H-47, etc. But the H-46 didn't make the cut. They had pages and pages about hot air balloons etc. but only one page on Vietnam choppers from all our armed forces.