Aircraft

[Leo Tanner]

Jeez Vegas, weren't you one of em that egged me on ta post somthin I was hesitant about before?  Tolt me the the worst that could happen was that you'd delete it?  Hmmm.  I'll go back ta bein hesitant, yer a fickle one.

Slim, I guess a Cobra is still a Cobra no matter what .  That is one BAD gunship.

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, I think the Apache is a little more modern with more avionics and firepower.

[Texas Lawdog]

We had Cobras back in the late 60s.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The Cobras have been updated over the years, just like they've done with the B-52's and the A-10's. Get more years out of the systems that way...............Buck

[Texas Lawdog]

Hey, Little Cobra, don't cha know ya gonna shut em all down!

[Tensleep]

Hey, Little Cobra, don't cha know ya gonna shut em all down!

[Texas Lawdog]

AH!  The Ripcords!

[Leo Tanner]

Weren't Apache based on the Cobra?  The evolution kinda slowed down after the Blackhawks changed everything.  I aint fully up ta speed on my modern choppers, fixed wing is my thing.

[litl rooster]

fixed wing here's one i was looking at this morning made in Buck's neighborhood

http://usaircraftcorp.com/aircraft.php

[Texas Lawdog]

The Cobra was built by Bell Helicopter in Hurst, Texas.  The Apache is built by Boeing.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Spring little Cobra, gettin' ready to strike! this is playing on Susie's music channel right now
TLD, where abouts in my area is this manufacturer? kind of a neat/nasty looking little package there.............Buck

[Leo Tanner]

Thanks fer the link Roo.

Last helicopter I really looked at an got to know was the Huey.  Built a model of a Hog when I was young, 50 cal gatlins an a nose gun with grenade launcher.  A lot of parts in that box.  Wish I still had it.  I got too much glue on the pilot an he kind of melted but other than that it came out nice.

[Ozark Tracker]

first summer camp I went to, I was a water purification specialist,  it'd take us about 3 hours every morning to make all the water we'd need all day and after we got done with that we were pretty much off,  The helicopters were just across the road from us and they saw we had one of the big water tanks set up for our swimming pool,  they'd come over and cool off there and invite us over to ride with them, they had to log in a number of hours while they were at summer camp, so I took advantage of it,  I don't know how many hours I spent riding around with em but a lot,  those 2 weeks we were there, they had Huey's and I can't remember the name but the smaller 4 or 5 seat jobs,  they didn't have too many specific places they had to fly so they just took us on tours of the area about 150 mile circle, it was cool.  I think I enjoyed that summer camp about as much as any I ever went to. 

and that's sayin a lot if you've never been to a National Guard Summer Camp.

[Leo Tanner]

Great memory OT.
    Lil used to get to go up in Bells over Tahoe as part of the Junior Weather Watchers.  Got ta talk on TV an all that.  When she got burned several years ago she was PO'ed that they had to cancel her Lifeflight and go in an ambulance to the burn center cause the chopper was tied up.  Cared more about flyin in one a them things again than the injury.

[Texas Lawdog]

Buck, The US Aircraft Corp. HQ is in Canton.   The Manufacturing is done in Akron.

[litl rooster]

I suspect right at your Airport there..Buck   I don't have the trade journal here at the house, I found it in.   They allready have a few in service with the troops

[1860]

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2009/03/wwii_avenger_bursts_into_flame.html

What a shame, I grew up in the 60's on Long Island, near Republic field.   Got to see and hear many War birds, just the sound of those engines gets your blood boiling.   Hellcats used to buzz us at the beach, they had a B-17 with a lifeboat slung under it, AT-6s were abundant, Mustangs, A-26s, TBMs, not mention many post WWII aircraft.  I also lived @Griffis AFB in the late 50s, Just when the fighter jocks were getting their first true supersonic aircraft.  My mom used to go balistic when they came over @ Mach+ and the boom knocked her dishes over in the hutch...LOL..The F-100 was the Sexyist Aircraft I've seen, it looked fast and deadly just sitting on the ramp.  The F-102 looked more like a rocket than an aircraft but it let out a true scream when it went past, those wings didn't look large enough to support it.

60

[litl rooster]

1860,   any word on the pilot yet?

[Arcey]

Ya see all kindsa of military helicopters at the ocean front. Flyin' low 'n slow.  Crews hangin' out lookin' it the damned near nekkid girls.

Red blooded, beef eatin', beer drinkin', American boys!

[Texas Lawdog]

Yea! What Arcey said.