We get a lot of Blackhawks on the way to Camp Ripley but can't remember the last time a shithook flew over in 16 years here.
We get a lot of Blackhawks on the way to Camp Ripley but can't remember the last time a shithook flew over in 16 years here.
At the lake about 5 years ago we had one "park" off over the lake in front of the house while it refueled a couple of smaller helicopters at night. The way the land falls they weren't that much higher then the deck off the back of the house I was watching them from. By far the ballsiest thing I've ever seen in my life. BTW they are loud aren't they
I see alot of black hawks and smaller attack type copters out of Knox following the lake but Chinooks sightings are few and far between.
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They were a weekly sight in January here. Then two weeks ago there were a bunch of maneuvers with 1st ID in Blackhawks in the area. A Blackhawk flies over this property at least once every three weeks, if it flies over the neighbor across the road then they fly over us on the way back.
About a third of them are marked with a red cross, you can see that if you go to the restaurant on the runway in Ponca City. They park the Blackhawks just south of the restaurant. The crosses aren't as visible from the ground as you would think.
Used to get f16s and 15s for entertainment, then A10s, now they moved and the attack helos that replaced the planes moved off towards Indy so no more free entertainment at all.
I have those antique choppers fly over my house time to time. Some of them were flying in Vietnam war. I just hope none of them fall apart in mid air and crash into my house.
They finally retired Vietnam era Hueys two years ago. Those were flying over my house too.
Blackhawk crashed into the mountain few miles from here couple of years ago.
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Very rare to see here but once in a Blue moon I see them.
My guess is they, all the copters, Are flying from Dobbins to Ft. Stewart.
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Don't always have the camera ready but was able to get this shot in front of the house a couple of years ago.
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Is the cross on the side where you are suppose to aim your 10-22?Originally Posted by Full Otto
Don't always have the camera ready but was able to get this shot in front of the house a couple of years ago.
I always thought the 10-22 was so deadly and frightening that aiming it in the general direction would cause the Blackhawk to crash itself out of fear.
We get Chinooks flying by about every other day. The National Guard training facility is right down the street. My son (ROTC) rides in
one once in a while and told me that they vibrate like hell and are very loud, I told him that it's when the shaking stops and it gets
real quiet, Thats when he should worry.
Just me and my monkey....
Must be where all the local "shithooks" went to. They were here for years. SF did exercises at the local lake a few years ago. From helio they drop rubber boat in water, jump in water, load up and go.
Later I talked to a couple on dry land. I told them there was alligators as big as 14 feet in the lake. When they get bigger the Game Wardens catch and send them else where. The SF looked me in the eye and said, "Well, they missed one. I liked to have dropped right on a gator that musta been 16 feet long. It didn't take me long to get in the boat".
Me I'll take a gator over a hippo any day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4EvVR10AF0
You ought to be standing on the swashplate of a slick trying to hook it up to a shithook that's 3 feet over your head, and the damn thing comes down 2 feet and almost pins you to the rotorhead of the Huey. You can vacate your position in a hurry. And don't ever touch that cargo hook on a shithook....damn it hurts. Looks like this, only lower....
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Love the A10's!!! The high pitched whine of the engine. Used to go to the Casinos on the Jersey shore by bus and had the A10's flying right over the parkway in the Pine Barrens.
It is almost a daily occurance that I se them around here. They usually fly in groups of two. The last time I went to the titty bar by selfridge ANG base I saw paratroppers jumping out of the back of them.
I can hear them before I ever see them.
LOL I wonder sometimes..... They'll probably take the whole pole barn with them.
Could be but I find it more of a challenge using it on this guy when he comes over.
What does the cross signify?
Bluntforce mentioned it and that got me looking for the picture
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