Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005
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 I've seen alot of people that thought they were cool , but then again Lord I've seen alot of fools.
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 03:57:07 PM » |
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And here I thought you didn't fly! 
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Michael K (Az.)
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"You have to admire a healthy tomatillo!"
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 04:03:23 PM » |
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Yeah Joe! I thought flying wasn't one of a few of your favorite things? ???
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"I'd never join a club that would have me as a member!" G.Marx 
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 04:06:58 PM » |
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Looks like an R-22, Did you get to go up in it? Local farmer has one here and we have used it for search and rescue a couple of times. I love to go up in that thing.
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Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005
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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 04:10:08 PM » |
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Very true I don't like to fly however " IF " I did with this one I'd only have myself to blame if it plowed into the side of a mountain . Unlike getting on a big ass air bus and never seeing the dude you just trusted your life with.This one was being traded in my company just bought ( 4 ) new ones . I hauled this one outside of Nashville to a heavy equipment dealers yard.
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 I've seen alot of people that thought they were cool , but then again Lord I've seen alot of fools.
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Michael K (Az.)
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"You have to admire a healthy tomatillo!"
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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 04:13:08 PM » |
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It sure would be a kick in the patoottie to bop around in that thing tho!!! 
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 04:15:15 PM » |
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I saw them hanging lines in Robbinsville a couple of years ago while waiting for Vicki and Curb Rider to get there. Amazing is all I can say!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 04:21:34 PM » |
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I saw them hanging lines in Robbinsville a couple of years ago while waiting for Vicki and Curb Rider to get there. Amazing is all I can say!!!!!!!!!!
Yup, pretty unbelievable the fine control a skilled pilot has in a chopper!
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eric in md
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ride hard now we all can rest when were gone !!!
in the mountains .......cumberland md
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« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2011, 04:42:47 PM » |
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cant hide it can you joe?? just buy if you like it .. just another toy . keep your nine and a half fingered friend away from them blades 
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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2011, 04:55:35 PM » |
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eric in md
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ride hard now we all can rest when were gone !!!
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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 04:59:13 PM » |
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cant wait till we all hook up again warren .. hope you have a safe and fun ride ..
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« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 05:03:47 PM » |
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Yeppers, they're fun to fly, owning one would be a little expensive. If we ever actually ride together, remind me to tell you about my last recon flight. Something I think you'll appreciate.  blackrams 
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2011, 05:11:43 PM » |
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Cool
Why don't you hook us all up with a Helicopter Ride.
Never even sat in one.
Looks like you are a natural.
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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2011, 06:08:09 PM » |
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One of my all time favorites. Greatest scout ship and super crashworthy, main combat weakness was oil cooler, not armored, and located behind the aft cabin firewall where bad guys could take it out shooting at occupants. Fast and very manuverable. Hughes got it right on this one. Teamed with the AH1G Cobra was a deadly hunter killer team. Ive got time in both and been in sticky situations in both, and lived to tell about it. Us Cobra jocks used to joke that you could tell where the enemy was on the ground by the burning LOACH.
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2011, 06:40:06 PM » |
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I was in uncle sugars canoe club or tonkin gulf yacth club tween 1964-1968-had exactly 2 helicopter rides-first and last-gimme a cat shot and an arrested landing any time. Mucho preffered over a whirly bird.  I also wasn't to fond of ridin the bosuns chair either 
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« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2011, 07:29:33 PM » |
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Bah! Get a few hours in a helo and youll never go back They grow on ya pretty quickly. 
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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2011, 09:28:11 PM » |
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you could always sell rides at inzane  not too much yawl or I'll yak 
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« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2011, 05:29:35 AM » |
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Two things you rarely see; old helicopters and old helicopter pilots. I've been flying fixed wings for years but retired to riding bikes instead. Flying and biking are very similar. You are constantly using both feet, both hands, head and eyes with either. Not a lot of difference except for altitude. Dubs
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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2011, 05:45:36 AM » |
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Fixed wing pilots will tell you that helicopters fly because they are so UGLY that the Earth repels them! Joe... on the subject of getting on an airbus trusting your life to a guy you never met... we, as bikers, trust our lives to hundreds of people we have never met every time we straddle our bikes, and voyage out into the land of cagers. Flying commercial is WAY safer than driving bro. I respect your phobia.. but call it what it IS.  Jabba
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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2011, 05:47:38 AM » |
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I've also heard said that helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission.
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« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2011, 06:56:35 AM » |
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You'd never do the trade. I don't see any chrome on it and there's nowhere to put your car tire on that thing. 
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« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2011, 07:37:55 AM » |
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Trade? straight across ? or would you get some cash along with it
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« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2011, 07:50:58 AM » |
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Me thinks a chopper would be a lot like a boat... Buying it is really just a down payment, then you've gotta start the continuous stream of money keeping it maintained!
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away...  IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ
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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2011, 10:17:22 AM » |
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Can Gordon still do that?
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« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2011, 06:31:04 PM » |
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Fixed wing pilots will tell you that helicopters fly because they are so UGLY that the Earth repels them! Joe... on the subject of getting on an airbus trusting your life to a guy you never met... we, as bikers, trust our lives to hundreds of people we have never met every time we straddle our bikes, and voyage out into the land of cagers. Flying commercial is WAY safer than driving bro. I respect your phobia.. but call it what it IS.  Jabba I don't like flying and I'll tell ya straight up I don't. however a couple shots of 'dutch courage' and I'm like Ron White 'just auger this thing hard enough that I don't limp away.'
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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2011, 05:26:50 PM » |
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Me thinks a chopper would be a lot like a boat... Buying it is really just a down payment, then you've gotta start the continuous stream of money keeping it maintained!
While I love the helos.. your right on that point. They are maintenance hogs. Hell, all aircraft are expensive but they take it to another level.
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