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Rupert

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Rupert last won the day on February 17

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    Snow & water skiing, playing music on brass & woodwinds, fooling with sports cars

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  1. 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!!
  2. 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!
  3. 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
  4. 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!
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Hey learning is what it's all about. As I've told many a newbie, flying is 95% mental.
  8. 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.
  9. 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!!
  10. +1! And it's a great deal at twice the no cost price.
  11. 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!
  12. 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.
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