Where We Came From

stearmann4 · January 27, 2013

Guys/Gals, Thought you'd like to see a neat retro WOC video of how we got to where we are now. Makes me realize that I may be one of the few guys left on AD who still flew Hueys in flight school.

Mike-

leapfox125 · January 27, 2013

i really enjoyed this...i really want to fly the mh6 but i would love to practice in a huey in flight school.

leapfox125 · January 27, 2013

the fire guys get to use the 412!! XO

it is more agile and faster, but oddly enough the 212 can go higher and lift more.

I3uller · January 27, 2013

It was neat seeing the Hughes 269 as a military trainer back then. I went through my whole PPL training on the now Schweizer 300CBi and it doesn't look like much has changed.

akscott60 · January 27, 2013

Hell, most of the original batch of TH67s have 10,000 hours on them, or close to it. The Army is going to have to figure out something to do with them soon enough.

Gomer Pylot · January 28, 2013

Ft Wolters was the best place I was ever stationed, no question. That was the most fun I ever had with my pants on. I can't believe it has been that long since I was in a TH-55.

Rucker wasn't that great, for a number of reasons. Flying instruments in a TH-13 is work, with that bubble canopy, and the sun putting the flicker of the blades on the panel. But I have to admit that flying a UH-1 was great.

electron_si · February 15, 2013

One of our systems instructors in primary went through flight school at Ft Wolters, he was telling all of us how good we had it now.

Thats really cool to see a video of what it was like back then, and it's funny how there was only one "advanced airframe" track. I guess those guys never had to worry about what there GPA was for selection lol.

SemperGumby · February 15, 2013

During my BWS checkride I came across an IP who was around when they were picking up cobra pilots. He said that they had to learn practically everything about the airframe; how many rivets there are and what that floating bead is made of that's on the transmission fluid window (cork wrapped in aluminum I think, if I remember correctly). Pretty nuts.

zion · February 15, 2013

During my BWS checkride I came across an IP who was around when they were picking up cobra pilots. He said that they had to learn practically everything about the airframe; how many rivets there are and what that floating bead is made of that's on the transmission fluid window (cork wrapped in aluminum I think, if I remember correctly). Pretty nuts.

Riveting indeed.

Rob1237051 · February 16, 2013

Q: Where was the last rivet placed on (insert airframe here)?

A: The location of the last sheet metal repair.

electron_si · February 19, 2013

My 60 IP asked me week 1 how many rivets were in the airframe, knowing that sheetmetal was one of my prior MOS's.

I told him there are "enough rivets to hold it together"

I'm fairly confident he was hoping for something more than that

akscott60 · February 20, 2013

How many ball bearings are in the 58 tail stinger?

"All of them"

electron_si · February 20, 2013

How many ball bearings are in the 58 tail stinger?

"All of them"

Nailed it!

Hotdogs · February 20, 2013

During my BWS checkride I came across an IP who was around when they were picking up cobra pilots. He said that they had to learn practically everything about the airframe; how many rivets there are and what that floating bead is made of that's on the transmission fluid window (cork wrapped in aluminum I think, if I remember correctly). Pretty nuts.

How far did he have to walk uphill in the snow to work? and did he have to do it both ways?

SemperGumby · February 21, 2013

How far did he have to walk uphill in the snow to work? and did he have to do it both ways?

We didn't have that much time for 'nam stories that day, I had to go learn how not to kill my IP eventually. Just wanted to point out how flight school has changed. I think the story about the uphill both ways came later.