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Remember
Good Helicopters (even kits) Aren't Cheep.
More Important,
Cheep Helicopters Aren't Safe
and Can/HAVE KILLED

Before Buying Anything, New or Used
I strongly suggest you personally observe the designer and or manufacture (not just the company's test pilots) flying there product at altitude (not just hovering around) many many times before you invest your money n possibly your life in their helicopter...

If  the designer or manufacture comes up with ANY excuse why they don't personally fly there craft, the writing is on the wall, READ it n move on to another manufacture that has the confidence in there craft to fly it above 100 feet regularly.

And the same goes for used/experimental helicopters. If the owner/builder does NOT have the confidence in his craft to give you full flight demonstration (autos, hover autos, quick stops, flights at altitude) the writing is once again on the wall, READ it and move on.

I have personally seen the manufactures n used helicopter owners that fly there craft at altitude n I have also seen the ones that don't fly there craft more than a few feet off  the ground. Statistically, one is LOTS less likely to kill than the other.
Remember, the life you save is Yours....

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Interesting V22-Osprey
Information

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Fighter Pilots Prayer

May God grant me the eye of the eagle on his prey.
The stealthy tenacity of the Tiger on the hunt.
 And the Balls of a Combat Helicopter Pilot.

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Rotorheads FOR THE

OWNER/BUILDER/ENTHUSIAST

Keep up to date with the latest information on

Rotorway Helicopters email n94cj@heliservices.com

or

Phone 410-857-4338

John Pohlman, Rotorheads

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Is there anyone here today who does not thrill to the sound of those Huey blades?? That familiar whop-whop-whop is the soundtrack of our war……the lullaby of our younger days. To someone who spent his time in Nam with the grunts I have got to tell you that that noise was always a great comfort. It meant someone was coming to help - someone was coming to get our wounded someone was coming to bring us water and ammo - someone was coming to take our dead brothers home…..someone was coming to give us a ride out of hell. Even today when I hear it I stop…..catch my breath…..and think back to those days……

I love you guys as only an Infantryman can love you. No matter how bad things were….if we called you came. Down through the green tracers and other visible signs of a real bad day off to a bad start. I would like to quote to you from a letter Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman wrote his
friend Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the Civil War: "I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come---if alive." That was always in our minds and that is how we thought of you. To us you seemed beyond brave and fearless…..that you would come to us in the middle of battle in those flimsy thin-skinned crates…..and in the storm of fire you would sit up there behind that plexiglass seeming so patient and so calm and so vulnerable…..waiting for the off-loading and the on-loading. We thought you were God's own lunatics…..and we loved you. Still do.

We are gathered here this morning to appreciate the lives and honor the memory of 2,209 helicopter pilots and 2,704 helicopter crewmen who were killed while doing their duty in the Republic of Vietnam between May 30,

1961, and May 15, 1975. Theirs are some of the names among the 58,220 on this precious Wall. So many good men…..so many good friends.

Before I come here I always remind myself of what another good friend…Captain B.T. Collins…. who is now gone….liked to say at gatherings like this:

No whining and no crying! We are the fortunate ones! We survived…..when so many better men gave up their precious lives for us. We owe them a sacred debt…..to live each day to its fullest….trying to make this world a better place for our having lived and their having died.

So we come here today to remember them…..and to celebrate their lives and their deeds. I like to come here at dawn……or around midnight…….when things are so quiet you can hear their voices. What they are saying…..when you listen hard enough……is this: We are at peace; so should you be…….so should you be.

I would like to close by reading you from something written by a World War
I poet named Lawrence Binyon:
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them…..nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them!

God bless all our absent friends……and God bless you.

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NASA's Infinite Wisdom

After considerable  research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million 1960 U.S. tax payer dollars.  Happily the pen worked and also enjoyed some modest commercial success as a  novelty item back here on Earth.

The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.

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Getting ready for
Homer's 2,ooo

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CH-37
"The Big Duce"

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A SCARY RIDE ACROSS THE EQUATOR

A Boeing 767 had just departed JFK Airport on it's way to Buenos Aires. After it  reached a cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom,  "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight 293, nonstop from to lovely Buenos Aires Argentina. The weather ahead is forecasted good for the entire journey across the equator, therefore we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now, please sit back and relax. Than with out a moment's hesitation the passengers heard the captain say "OH MY GOD!" than the PA system clicked n went dead with deafening silence to a cabin full of  concerned passengers.

Then a few moments that seemed to be hours, the captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if  I scared you  a few moments earlier, but while I was talking to you just moments ago the flight attendant brought me a cup of coffee and she spilled the entire hot cup in my lap. With a little chuckle in his voice, the frisky captain added "You should see the front of my pants!"

A passenger back in Coach piped up for the entire section to hear "That's nothing, he should see the back of my pants!"

I worked on the Marine CH-37 years ago and would like to obtain any recorded sounds (audio or video) of  this  helicopter.  Do you have or know where I can get same?  I have a documentary with that and the H-34 but, between the music and narration, you can't hear the helicopters.

Thanks...
John

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More Sky Crane Fotos

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Map to Homer's
Courtesy of RotorHeads Magazine
a publication for RotorWay Inthuasts
www.heliservices.com

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CH-7 Kompress for sale in Europe
2 hours TT

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Honestly speaking, SHnPGIE's contributions have dropped of tremendously in the last 6 months, if this means there is no longer much interest in this WWWeb site, well I'm sad to say that one day the "law of  the jungle" will likely take over n SHnPGIE will die.

Until than, please realize, I already contribute 10/20 hours a week hosting/editing SHnPGIE n I personally feel it only fair that the people that enjoy n profit from this site should also contribute something to help pay SHnPGIE's out of pocket expenses. So, needing cash for SHnPGIE  I  started selling a few things to help supplement SHnPGIE's contributions.

So, if  you're purchasing a book from Amazon, now or in the future, by clicking thru SHnPGIE, we will get a small (about $0.50) commission. Or if you use telephone cards, by purchasing from SHnPGIE, you will save a buck n SHnPGIE will make a buck since (we sell them for a dollar less than at your local convenience store). So if you have the need for one of the two for mentioned items, please click on the icon above.

It all adds up n will help maintain n perhaps allow me to cover additional helicoptering events, thus giving YOU more good stuff on helicopters to read n quality fotos to dream on n help SHnPGIE be on the WWWeb one more year.

It's all up to you, the reader  if  SHnPGIE is on the WWWeb after September 1999.
Right now I feel like the beggars we C on the PBS TV channels from time to time, they are annoying aren't they, sorry.

THANK YOU

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A Few
Good Helicopter n Aviation
...Related Books...
You may like to read
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Chicken Hawk is a story of a young boy that goes thru US Army  Warrant Officer Flight School becoming both a helicopter pilot and a man. The story starts in the late 60 in the USA, than onto VietNamand back. The author Bob Mason tells how he almost washed out of pre flight school but was allowed to take the "Hell Month" over again (6o days of Hell Month) and  almost a year later earned his wing as a Warrant Officer. He tells how he and many other set up one of the first Air Cavalry Divisions (perhaps the first, I can't remember). Any way, I  enjoyed Bob's book so much I have actually read 3 times so far and most likely will again. It is a great book for any one fascinated with the whirling wing/helicopter and or VietNam helicopter aviation. If you are forgetful like me, you can enjoy it 3 times for only $8.76 thru Amazon.com. Click here to order Chicken Hawk..........

Almost every one knows Chuck Yeager was the first human to break the sound barrier. But the story that leads up to him being in the right place at the right time and having "the Right Stuff" is equally as interesting as his mach 1 story. If I remember correctly (I read this one a few years back n only once) this book also starts out when Chuck was a young man on a farm, following him thru Army flight school, a W.W.II P51 pilot in Europe and back to Murrock/Eedwards AF Base, retiring a Air Force Brig. General....... Great human aviation story, great W.W.II story and great aviation history story all rapped up in one book for just 6 bucks thru Amazon.com. Click here to order eager......

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You may have seen the movie or perhaps the segment on 6o minuets or 2o/2o type TV show recently. What a story that starts with a grope of young soccer players on a twin engine turbo prop plane flying thru the Andes in Chili South America and does not make it. I do not want to give it a way, but is is a great story and just keeps on coming and coming as you turn the page. Once again, I read this one a few years ago and with my memory, I will take it with me on my next long airline flight and read/enjoy it all over. Alive is also a bargain at $5.59 thru Amazon.com. Click here to order here to order Alive..........