Grandmaster235
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New to the board.... Any other HSL bubbas around, or anyone want to talk about LAMPS or small boy life??
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Grandmaster235
World's Greatest Pilot
Cool! This place needs more rotorheads!
LUCK = THE INTERSECTION OF PREPARATION AND OPPORTUNITY
LUCK = THE INTERSECTION OF PREPARATION AND OPPORTUNITY
LAMPS GUY <== Old School
What do you want to talk about?
High power aft array on an Aegis frying the MAD reeling machine?
Shoes who can't find the wind, even with a good watch team?
Salt water washdown activation during a GQ drill while the bird was tied down on the flight deck?
Shoes who compete for who gets the least sleep?
Night landings when either the wind or deck is in limits, but not both? Them are FUN FUN FUN . . . boost off.
What's your pleasure. :icon_mi_1
Grandmaster235 said:
What do you want to talk about?
High power aft array on an Aegis frying the MAD reeling machine?
Shoes who can't find the wind, even with a good watch team?
Salt water washdown activation during a GQ drill while the bird was tied down on the flight deck?
Shoes who compete for who gets the least sleep?
Night landings when either the wind or deck is in limits, but not both? Them are FUN FUN FUN . . . boost off.
What's your pleasure. :icon_mi_1
I was part of a fly-off yesterday. We had two homeguard birds, two DET birds, and the H-3. Everytime someone would roll into final to pickup people from the ship, the tower would ask if we had the numbers. Everytime, someone would say, negative, we have the numbers. Tower's response: "Roger, wind is..., Fox Corpen is...," etc. I almost drove my pen through my eye. Oh well, some things never change. My favorite is still the wind hunting circle. Sometimes I think they suffer from the Zoolander condition...they can't turn left, so they turn right 270 degrees. 
Enishi1983
Solid Snake
yeah...
yeah... if i had enough for a prk, i'd definitely leave planes behind and go for h-53's; they're awesome!
yeah... if i had enough for a prk, i'd definitely leave planes behind and go for h-53's; they're awesome!
Sea Stories
Well, you flatter me, my stuff is old stuff. A buddy of mine in HSL 45 was flying in the First Gulf war, after the oil rigs had caught fire. Low vis. Over land, looking for something or other. Low altitude. Set off a land mine with rotor wash and damaged the tail section. DOH! They were from the USS Jarrett.
While on Det 7 on the Bunker Hill, I was in a 15 plane fly past for the Sultan of Malaysia in 1990, a formation that included a Japanese H-3, a Brit Lynx, an Italian Huey, French Alouette, 4 or 5 Wasps from Malaysia, an Indonesian BO-105, and a Kiwi Wasp. I forget what and who else were in it. Organized by a Brit who once flew with the Brit Gazelle flight demonstration team. It was . . . insane, and being the big one, I was tail end charlie with the Japanese H-3 in a game of crack the whip. The guys on the ship said that it looked interesting, but not pretty, and not like the Blue Angels.
I once found a Whiskey class submarine on the surface in the Black Sea, in H-2's, at night, and my AW had not loaded film in the camera we had attached to the TAS 6. I got visual, no pictures, and the guy pulled the plug. That sucked. The TAS six was rigged via bungee chord in the open cargo door, (in Feb, bloody cold that was) an is an old set of late 70's vintage IR binoculars.
Our det off the Coast of Beirut had a FLIR (AN-AAS36? a P-3 flir) installed where the sonobuoy launcher normally was, in 1984, rigged with video tape. We marked on top of the Soviet ship Leningrad, at 1000' to comply with INCSEA agreements, and took some films of what they did inside the hangar while their top doors were open. That was kinda neat. On that same deployment, we got IR film of Israeli PT boats commandeering and escorting back to port some passenger ship or ferry boat that had some Palestinian Terrorists on board. At night. The film was taken from us and flown immediately to the Carrier, where it was uplinked to DC. Big to do, not sure what came of it all, other than some guy in the Cone of Silence in the Pentagon saying "neat pix."
Scrambled for a SAR alert off of Sardinia at 0500 or so one morning in 1985 off the coast of Sardinia. Cobra in the water. One alive, one dead, look like they flew it into the water on goggles. We were on top to pick up the survivor, but little did we know he was in a pool of floating JP-5l, he waved us off after our rotor spray damned near freaked him out with the fuel cocktail it fed him. Ship's motor whaleboat got the rescue, DAMNIT! No SAR Pin!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Got my arse chewed for marking on top of some America's Cup boats in 1991 off of Point Loma. Screw those rich boys. The NOTAM had closed off our VFR departure route out of North Island for the whole effing America's Cup. Denis Connor is, officially, an arsehole.
All for now. Played tag with Muhumar in 1986, but the A-6's got the kill with a Harpoon. It was all over the news, I got a copy of the pix somewhere in my house.
ENSsquid said:
Well, you flatter me, my stuff is old stuff. A buddy of mine in HSL 45 was flying in the First Gulf war, after the oil rigs had caught fire. Low vis. Over land, looking for something or other. Low altitude. Set off a land mine with rotor wash and damaged the tail section. DOH! They were from the USS Jarrett.
While on Det 7 on the Bunker Hill, I was in a 15 plane fly past for the Sultan of Malaysia in 1990, a formation that included a Japanese H-3, a Brit Lynx, an Italian Huey, French Alouette, 4 or 5 Wasps from Malaysia, an Indonesian BO-105, and a Kiwi Wasp. I forget what and who else were in it. Organized by a Brit who once flew with the Brit Gazelle flight demonstration team. It was . . . insane, and being the big one, I was tail end charlie with the Japanese H-3 in a game of crack the whip. The guys on the ship said that it looked interesting, but not pretty, and not like the Blue Angels.
I once found a Whiskey class submarine on the surface in the Black Sea, in H-2's, at night, and my AW had not loaded film in the camera we had attached to the TAS 6. I got visual, no pictures, and the guy pulled the plug. That sucked. The TAS six was rigged via bungee chord in the open cargo door, (in Feb, bloody cold that was) an is an old set of late 70's vintage IR binoculars.
Our det off the Coast of Beirut had a FLIR (AN-AAS36? a P-3 flir) installed where the sonobuoy launcher normally was, in 1984, rigged with video tape. We marked on top of the Soviet ship Leningrad, at 1000' to comply with INCSEA agreements, and took some films of what they did inside the hangar while their top doors were open.
That was kinda neat. On that same deployment, we got IR film of Israeli PT boats commandeering and escorting back to port some passenger ship or ferry boat that had some Palestinian Terrorists on board. At night. The film was taken from us and flown immediately to the Carrier, where it was uplinked to DC. Big to do, not sure what came of it all, other than some guy in the Cone of Silence in the Pentagon saying "neat pix."Scrambled for a SAR alert off of Sardinia at 0500 or so one morning in 1985 off the coast of Sardinia. Cobra in the water. One alive, one dead, look like they flew it into the water on goggles. We were on top to pick up the survivor, but little did we know he was in a pool of floating JP-5l, he waved us off after our rotor spray damned near freaked him out with the fuel cocktail it fed him. Ship's motor whaleboat got the rescue, DAMNIT! No SAR Pin!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Got my arse chewed for marking on top of some America's Cup boats in 1991 off of Point Loma. Screw those rich boys. The NOTAM had closed off our VFR departure route out of North Island for the whole effing America's Cup. Denis Connor is, officially, an arsehole.
All for now. Played tag with Muhumar in 1986, but the A-6's got the kill with a Harpoon. It was all over the news, I got a copy of the pix somewhere in my house.
usnavy_mustang
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Demento you are truly motivation to us all as a fellow "old salt" my friend. Especially those of us that are new to the Helo community (but not necessarily new to the Navy). Some of us old farts love Sea Stories...Keep it up. Thanx!
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