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Holy sh*t

Posted:
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

Posted:
Fri May 28, 2004 8:54 pm
by bozotheclown338
Thats crazy!

But why are they there?

Re: Holy sh*t

Posted:
Fri May 28, 2004 10:07 pm
by Polynomial
makes you wonder . . . .
Re: Holy sh*t

Posted:
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

Posted:
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

Posted:
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

Posted:
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?

Re: Holy sh*t

Posted:
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

Posted:
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

Posted:
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...:-)