Haha. That vet sounds a bit like Han Solo in Star Wars, winning the Millennium Falcon in a card game. Except that the DC-3 won't be doing the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs!
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😜😜😜Nah she smoked out of each and every friggen rusty hole she had. I wouldn’t fly in that rust bucket but he’s prices were cheap. I also had a ex Vietnam vet pilot my 206 choppers for work! Clocked up over 390hrs and two autorotations in my life so far (touch wood).see previous pic of 206 in a banana plantation (best place to crash in). ;-)after sucking a longbill into the turbine. Took a chinook to fly in a replacement engine ;-)
nasty having to autorotate with a single engine over jungle. In Iran Jaya (he’s mate crashed and 9hrs after they managed to drop somebody at the crash site they found smoldering legs and arms and a torso (head was missing - for drying I assume Eg head hunters). Oh and a big fire and his clothes
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But again a drunken coked up ex Vet. He used to love scaring the sh@t out of the local native timber truck drivers. He used to fly at 120knots 2m
Off the deck / dirt road (jungle timber logging roads crisscrossed our COW (contract of work 500km2) in East Kalimantan. So he flew either if they were approaching us (one kcould see dust miles away) towards them 2m off the deck until u saw the truck driver flashing his lights & starting to Jack knife his load as he pressed hard on his air brakes. Then 10m or (so it felt from the copilots seat) up into the air and pop over the truck cap before dropping down 2m into the dust again! If he snuck up on a truck from behind he would fly 2m above the cab before popping forward and dropping 1m
Above the deck and u could watch the truck driver sh@tting himself behind us brakes on full
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Also moje attack strafffing runs basecamp was he’s favourite but he could fly!
He was the Only Pilot I trusted to fly me & my field crew up day in day out up rivers underneath the tree canopy to get to our next drop off point! Me standing in the skid with headset keeping eye on tail rotor while
Kept an eye on the Main rotor (branches above 3mm not good for rotor blades) and then hovering 1m above the water we would jump out with all the kit and start working! Bloody glad I don’t work 7 days a week for 8 weeks on in the tropical jungles anymore. Hard yakka as they say and 2 out of my 12 geologist uni graduates have died of helicopter crashes. Bush flying is dangerous but awesome fun especially while
Listening to “running through the jungle”
On the coms! But he did need his supply of coke otherwise he couldn’t get out of bed
