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Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:32 pm
by Hellhound
a chinook just landed in a feild less than 150 feet from my house. i saw it at less than 75 feet from me! the thing is fing huge! to bad it's at night, otherwise i would take pics.

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:54 pm
by bozotheclown338
Thats crazy! ;D      But why are they there? ???

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:07 pm
by Polynomial
makes you wonder . . . .

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 5:23 am
by ozzy72
I found some pics of 18Sqn Chinooks during and just after the Gulf War, I'll try and get them scanned next week ;)
Hellhound, you should have run over and tried to blag a ride ;)

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 1:37 pm
by Hellhound
i would have, but it was for a medical airlift. i live really close to a military base and they'll take whateer they can get to get the people out.

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 4:30 pm
by HawkerTempest5
Maybe it got cloudy and it had to land until the weather cleared up a bit ;)

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 4:31 pm
by Jaffa
i would have, but it was for a medical airlift. i live really close to a military base and they'll take whateer they can get to get the people out.


A Chinook for a medievac?  What needed medivacing, a yeti? ;D

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2004 10:47 pm
by chomp_rock
I too have recently seen chinooks flying about. I took one pic but I have not developed it yet. BTW I like your 'sig' Jaffa, It is terribly true but in far larger numbers than 1,000.

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 12:08 am
by Pinchaser...
last summer i was spending a few weeks in phoenix arizona, and i was out at my grandparents pool and 3 chinook's flew overhead. funny thing was, all three were painted in the winter camo in arizona. i dont know what base they would fly into out there. luke AFB maybe, but thats a good 40 miles north.

Re: Holy sh*t

PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2004 1:25 pm
by Jared
That sounds like an interesting night! :-)

Every once in awhile we will have a flight of 25-40 go flying over really low and in tight formation...

Really makes the earth rumble pretty good...

one time the low frequency vibrations that they caused knocked a picture off of the wall...:-)