Next time (but hopefully, for your sake, there is no next time) get the Bunker Buster. You'll go from being a single-piloted aircraft to being a zero-piloted aircraft in a matter of minutes.
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Stupid Questions about Naval Aviation (Part 3)
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Next time (but hopefully, for your sake, there is no next time) get the Bunker Buster. You'll go from being a single-piloted aircraft to being a zero-piloted aircraft in a matter of minutes.
phrogpilot73
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Ahhh, the bunker buster... yummm, and d'oh!
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
Next time stop by my office on the way. It's hard working 100m from the Assburner.
Seriously? I've used mine at the top of Mt. Whitney (14,500) with no problems so maybe my warranty is void. I've never had a problem with g trashing my phone either. I wonder if it was the cold temps that did it?
I use the inside pocket on my survival vest for my iPhone and wallet. I've heard too many rumors about the G-suit pockets getting ripped away on ejection, and the chest flight-suit pocket will drown my phone on a hot day. As for a cover, I'll put one in my helmet bag on cross-countries or detachments (not counting the Boat.) If I pull the handle I don't care about my cover any more.
A cell phone fits perfectly into a pocket originally designed for a pack of smokes and a Zippo lighter? Coincidence? Yeah...probably.
Where would one find a BuNo on a cut up -60? No tail section and interior has been striped.
I went diving at Lake Rawlings, VA this weekend for work and they have a submerged -60 as an attraction. They call it "Blackhawk Down" but it looks like a Navy -60, or at least that's what I am guessing based on the grey paint. The interior has been stripped except for a few things. Still had the PCL and the sockets for the cyclic.
I looked all over but could not find it easily, there is a decent amount of algae on the outside. I thought y'all would find this interesting if anybody here had time in her. I expect to be back sometime within the next few months and will look closer if anybody has a good idea where to look.
I went diving at Lake Rawlings, VA this weekend for work and they have a submerged -60 as an attraction. They call it "Blackhawk Down" but it looks like a Navy -60, or at least that's what I am guessing based on the grey paint. The interior has been stripped except for a few things. Still had the PCL and the sockets for the cyclic.
I looked all over but could not find it easily, there is a decent amount of algae on the outside. I thought y'all would find this interesting if anybody here had time in her. I expect to be back sometime within the next few months and will look closer if anybody has a good idea where to look.
It looks like it might be a -60H. With the three "holes" aft of the cockpit door (interconnecting box and two windows) along with the AAR-47 just aft of the cockpit door (in your second pic), evidence points to a Hotel. The Blackhawks (and Knighthawk) have two main cabin doors, which I'm not seeing there.
Concur with Gator. It also has a Navy hoist over the cabin door, ruling out the Army. The USCG doesn't have the Laser Threat Detectors, so it rules out a USCG helo.
I haven't heard of an HH being sunk as a reef, but it looks like it's been stripped clean, so it obviously isn't a crash site.
I haven't heard of an HH being sunk as a reef, but it looks like it's been stripped clean, so it obviously isn't a crash site.
Rawlings is a SCUBA park run by rednecks who seem to have a knack for "acquiring" derelict vehicles and sinking them in their park. There are numerous boats (including the sailboat from The Replacements), cars, buses, vending machines, and about 50,000 old CDs down there. It wouldn't surprise me if this hulk was bought at a government surplus auction for peanuts. . .conversely, it wouldn't surprise me if it had been left too close to an unlocked gate at a depot somewhere and walked off.
I once helped the owners sink an old school bus in the lake. The plan was to float it out a few hundred yards and sink it in a pre-planned spot, but nobody really did the math for how much a school bus weighed, so it just sunk as soon as we rolled it off the dock. The lift bags broke free at about 50 feet and shot up to the surface like a submarine emergency blow and rained down on the onlookers on the beach like a balloon drop at the end of a gameshow.
Rednecks and their antics bring me so much joy and happiness.
Luckily for me, I live in North Florida, and I'm about to move to Pensacola, the nexus of the Redneck universe.
BTW, how'd those orders to VT-10 end up working themselves out, prop?
Luckily for me, I live in North Florida, and I'm about to move to Pensacola, the nexus of the Redneck universe.
BTW, how'd those orders to VT-10 end up working themselves out, prop?
Gave them to a buddy who was lusting for them and got myself flying orders in HI. Turns out sometimes it really is as easy as asking for what you want.
Suhweeeet...what'd you pull that was flying in da islands?
phrogpilot73
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Something tells me they acquired it through legit means - this is a picture from their photo gallery...
Something tells me they acquired it through legit means - this is a picture from their photo gallery...
Or the most ballsy theft EVER.