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Here's your Russky counterparts servicing an Mi-8 ATMSh ( if I read the model designator right) I was surprised the blades are covered.

Looks like a new machine. SW

very kool thanks.

we did the same thing.its faster to pull the covers off than to de-ice the blades.



a herman nelson was great when they worked






if you forgot to put the cover on the toilet bowl they would fill up with ice and snow.not a good thing to happen on a border alert.

We gaurded the air strip at Dong Ha on occasion & I recall the Cobra guys gassing their own machines up. Self serve JP-4 pumps I guess.

I clearly remember one occasion - some SF types located an entire NVA regiment tryin g to sneek into Northern I Corps after crossing the DMZ not far from Rockpile, IIRC. Word at the time was that the troops were complete noobs.

Cobras landed at Dong Ha pretty much all day to be reloaded with rockets, etc & gas up.

A blurb in Stars & Stripes said the regiment was virtually wiped out. Cobras & F-4s did the deal.

"Born in the North to die in the South." Worked for me. SW

hogger I started out working on the AH-1G cobra.it was a bad ass helicopter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMH1zgQp ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye0fjkjYmOU





here is a pic of my dad when he dropped in for a vist.this one was coming out of phase maintenance.

i need that tarp for my 93 olds - you still got one of those ?

I had one but this damn blue monkey stole it

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wanted dead or alive.tarp thief with "gay" tendencies.last seen riding with a pink elephant heading towards ohio.

...not in my lil' piece of Ohio....the racoons would slap him silly first and then coyotes would use him as bait fer other critters.....now the rest of Ohio-i dunno

I could always use some target practice.

Rad

Hey Pete,

I found some pictures of helicopters that I took in Afghanistan.

This is the Russian MI-26(NATO codename HALO).
This helicopter usually flew for us (the Dutch) between Kandahar and Tarin Kowt.
I saw it twice in Kabul where I took this picture.


I took this picture of a MI-8(NATO codename HIP) at Kabul International Airport.


This is a picture of a MI-24 (NATO codename HIND).
This particular helicopter is owned by the Afghan Air Force.
The instructors were US.


Met vriendelijke groet,

Martin

kool pics martin.when I was over there in germany we went to northern germany and had air to air gunnery with the cobras.they shot at drones.the hind is so heavy it can't hover and if the cobras ever got into it with one that was the plan.the snake can hover and do 360's and hose them with the 20mm if it came down to it.we didn't have stingers until 92 and that was on the OH-58D.I got to go to stinger school that was a BLAST!.

pete

I'll never be able to find it now but I've seen pics of iron bombs hung on the hard points of a "krokodile".

It still amazes me Americans were teaching Afghans to fly Russky helicopters. SW

hogger if you ever go out to JRTC the army bought up a bunch of rookski helicopters and use them for opfor forces.that way the training is as real as it gets.they are built extra stout and are very heavy kind of like the T72. I had a bud bring back a relay buss bar off a shot down hind .I was amazed at the size and weight of it.I thought it was crude compared to what we use.

http://www.jrtc-polk.army.mil/OPFOR/Hind.html

Lo & behold I did find the pic. Russkys dropping iron bombs from an M1-24. SW

very kool.

hogger check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPkXcWj ... 7EE8C5726D

pic from work as a civi

....comrades!!!...you for be comink fly vit me one of these-extra blade for insurance....muahhaahhaaaa

.....Ruski Hormone Class....I shot this pic back in April 76 as it was buzzing our ship....note Radoslav takink my peekture as I snap him...


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That is one UGLY machine! The transmission for the counter-rotating blades must have been a mechanic's dream. SW