-----Original Message----- From: Kevanf1 [mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:35 AM To: SuSE Group Subject: Re: [SLE] Warning to Americans!
On 01/05/06, Jerry Feldman
wrote: I once crashed a helicopter while landing on a mountain top because we were too
heavy.
I've crashed a hovercraft... But that was because I was being stupid and trying to do something the craft was incapable of in the weather conditions :-/
Can I borrow your lives for a bit? I don't risk death nearly often enough sitting at my desk....
:-) I need all my lives. As I was taking off from LZ Uplift with a full load of water for the troops, a chaplain jumped on, and I did not allow for his added weight. I was also
On Monday 01 May 2006 12:58 pm, Marlier, Ian wrote:
planning on a different LZ. As I looked at the map, the LZ was the top of a
mountain surrounded on 3 sides by 100 ft. trees. As I was on short final
the wind shifted to a quartering tailwind and I lost tail rotor control and
the aircraft started to rotate as I was approaching the makeshift helipad.
The only casualties were the chaplain (cut ear) and my zippo lighter, and my
peter-pilot's underwear (I was aircraft commander) with my name and unit
crest, and the Huey was in pretty bad shape.
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Jerry Feldman