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[Barrio_rat]

Here we have one of a young wrbones... It is believed that this is the begining of his criminal years.

[wrbones]

They gonna bust ya over that first pic. And concerning the last pic, the tank on my bike was black! So it couldn't be me! I'm innocent, I tell ya, innocent! Concerning the dictionary....well.....as opposed to some folks around here, I have a vocabulary......

[Barrio_rat]

Well, my appologies to anyone and everyone who may be offended by the 1st pic. But then, wouldn't be the 1st time nor, I'm sure, will it be the last time that I get busted. I know, everyone is innocent until caught. As far as the dictionary goes... At least you can use one!

SF friend

[gemntx]

1. Why did they call it Collective Pitch? I never collected
> > any. Usually ran out of it about the same time as altitude
> > and airspeed.
> >
> > 2. Why didn't Ma Bell add more left pedal and
> > aft cyclic? I always had
> > lots of right pedal and forward cyclic. It
> > seems like they could have
> > reduced those and added to the ones we needed.
> >
> > 3. Why did they put the only radio (KY-28) that
> > had to be recovered if
> > you went down in the most inaccessible part of
> > the aircraft?
> >
> > 4. Why did the pilots have armored seats but
> > the Chief and Gunner
> > didn't?
> >
> > 5. Why did situations that called for all the
> > torque the engine could
> > produce also require full use of the anti-torque
> > pedal followed by that
> > damn flashing red light? (Seems contradictory)
> >
> > 6. Why did they call them Hammer-Head stalls?
> > Maybe because only a
> > hammer head would try one in a helicopter.
> >
> > 7. Why did I always get an aircraft with a major 1 to 1
> > when I had a hangover? (For you non-rotor heads, a
> > "1 to 1" is a vertical vibration that pounds you into the
> > seat and quakes through your body one time for
> > each revolution of the main rotor - usually at a
> > rate of app. 294-324 RPM, and the faster you fly,
> > the harder it pounds After a while it begins to hurt,
> > ---even if you don't have a hangover.)
> >
> > 8. Why didn't Ma Bell make the skin out of duct
> > tape so it would match the patches?
> >
> > 9. Why did they make a main rotor system that
> > could cut down small Sequoia trees, and a tail rotor
> > system that self-destructed if it encountered anything
> > bigger than a bumblebee?
> >
> > 10. Why were they called landing skids? Were
> > they intended for landing or skidding?
> >
> > 11. Why did the amount of time I had to spend in an LZ
> > increase exponentially with the amount of fire I was
> > receiving?
> >
> > 12. Why didn't 33 beer taste any better cold
> > than it did hot?
> >
> > 13. Why did the smoke from the s**t barrel
> > always blow towards my tent/hooch?
> >
> > 14. Why was the PX always out of everything on
> > my day off?
> >
> > And the biggest question of all.......
> >
> > 15. Why does a Bell helicopter have unusual
> > noises that can only be heard at night or while
> > in the clouds?
> >

[Static_Sky]

damn bones I thought ya was old , I dunno what they didn't make it outta duct tape. maybe ya can't paint it

[wrbones]

I needed the belly laugh! I always had questions like that myself. Seems no one had any answers that made sense either! LMAO. That KY-28 was in the weirdest spot, no matter what kinda helicopter it was on! Those one to one's not only rattled yer teeth, they got scary after awhile!Ya think ya got feedback in the radio, and it's just yer teeth clacking together! LOL. Got a question for ya. Did anyone ever sign off a gripe about adjusting the nut behind the stick on yer watch? LMAO. Knew a guy did a loop inna CH-53 once, they had to send the bird to rework! LMAO. Crew Chief turned in his wings fer some reason........

[gemntx]

I had an avionics type that tried that once. I took him on a test hop.:eek: He got the picture then. Avionics types were a different breed anyway. I talked with one of the pilots that did the loop in the 53. It was rather amazing. In the words of "Dirty" Harry Callahan, "A man must know his limitations."

Glenn

[wrbones]

Had an avionics gripe on a CH-53 once at HMT-301. We had a couple of good Marines in the Avionics shop, but they couldn't get it figured out after three test flights and a weeks worth of work. Both 1st and 2nd stage lights came on at the same time in flight! Well, Major, you can understand just how upsetting that might be to the initiated...let alone the uninitiated! Avionics finally sent the VIDS/MAF to Hydraulics. The crew chief brought the gripe to me, said we're going on a test flight, and a bit later away we went. Out over Pendleton where I stood in the access to the cockpit and then said over the radio," I don't see a thing, what's the problem?" Crew chief told the pilot to do his thing. A little collective, a bit of left stick and a bit of right stick, and he board lit up! My jaw dropped, and when asked what to do, I pointed at the deck and said " Get us down. NOW!" Crew chief had a self satisfied look on his face fer some reason. We got back to base, I signed off that MAF and wrote up another one referring to the first. "Change first and second stage pressure switches." It was a cheap and easy fix and if the problem didn't go away, I figured Avionics could go from there or else BOTH manifolds were bad. Argued with avionics and they finally changed the pressure switches and the problem went away.....but for what seemed like a week long trip back to MCAS(H) Tustin that day, I was reviewing emergency egress procedures in my mind ......with some great diligence.... The problem with avionics types is that if it's too simple, they can't figure it out, and who woulda believed BOTH switches could go at the same time! But I always was a bit strange........

[Barrio_rat]

Hey bones.. Always figured if Ordnance (duct) Tape and a BFH couldn't fix it, it just couldn't be fixed!