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Location: Houston, Texas | Yeah, they don't fly too well, either. :D
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I knocked myself out skiing in France and don't remember the accident at all. I was skidoo'd off the mountain - don't remember it. No recollection of the ambulance trip to the medical centre or my time there.
Then I got airlifted to hospital. I remember every second of that helicopter ride.
Then I arrived at the hospital and the memory is gone again. I can't recall arriving there or my first whole day in the ward.
A whole day and a half is missing, except for about 20 minutes of exhilarating clarity.
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Location: big island | muzza,
blame it on the thc.
THC= Total Helicopter Consciousness |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Cute bit of cross-threading there, Lanaki. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Nils:
I thought you were talking about this kind of chopper-
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But that is a pretty old Shovelhead. And that is my kind of Chopper...
Not that look-alike stuff on American Chopper.
The kind you build yourself, not out-source to everyone else.
[Showing my age...] |
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Location: Central Oregon | Thanks, & you're right, I built it myself 34 years ago (the first time). It's actually a shovelhead conversion, the engine started out as a '56 panhead. It's registered as a '56FL but the only part of it that's '56 are the cases. It has '68 heads & barrels, balanced '73 wheels & rods, Phase III belt drive, Barnett clutch, pressure plate & springs, Andrews cam, Sifton solids & pushrods, Weber downdraft (with electric fuel pump), Durfee girder front end, handmade square tube frame, handmade seat with a spiderweb pattern, completely rebuilt peanut tank, Andrews tranny gears, handmade three bolt exhaust. I painted it & a friend of mine striped it, another friend chromed it. I wouldn't trade it for one of those $50-100K cookie-cutter "choppers". |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | From my last helicopter ride all I remember is
water water water boat water water water boat water water water boat water water water THUD!!!! |
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Location: ranson,wva | first(and last) time i rode in a heilocopter was in a blackhawk medivac when i split my head open back in 2000. if wasnt passed out they would have never got me on that thing for the ride from wva to fairfax inova hospital....7yrs later and im still terrified of heights.....jason |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
From my last helicopter ride all I remember is
water water water boat water water water boat water water water boat water water water THUD!!!! :confused: :confused: :confused: |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah Muzza, me to! Did Miles survive the impact? |
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Location: closely held secret | Sounds like he was landing on deck in a choppy sea. |
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Location: big island | he crash landed his toy helicopter onto the deck of his toy boat while taking a bath. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | It's interesting. I wrote to the Kaman helicopter people for some information on the K-max, got a prompt response and a brouchure. The Kaman customer service is not bad at all. Just like the guitar side of the biz.
If I was in the market for a light to medium lift helicopter, it would be a Kaman. |
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Location: Up North | But did you get a hat for Cliff? |
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Location: NJ | I'm stickin' with the BeanieProp . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | ...and the bananas. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | might I suggest a tail roto? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Relax and enjoy.
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Location: ranson,wva | Originally posted by MWoody:
Relax and enjoy.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Sounds like he was landing on deck in a choppy sea. BINGO!!!!! Sorry no prize, but the only way you probably knew is to have done it too. You survived too, that's enough of a prize.
Sure glad they didn't tell me why the "Shark Watch" guys carried 30-06's until AFTER I was on the deck. |
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Location: closely held secret | Nope, never done it myself. I just have a vivid imagination.
I have landed at SFO on a stormy night, however. Felt pretty much like that. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I've been in a helicopter twice. The first time when I was nine years old in Florida. My dad and I were in the bubble no doors type. My baseball cap flew off my head and went out the pilot's side. He grabbed it just in time and saved my cap. The next time was in Hawaii. Pearl and I did the helicopter tour. The pilot was a real joker. we climbed up one side of the mountain and then he did a nose dive going over the top. That was eighteen years ago. I have not been on a plane or helicopter sinse.
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by Phil Wong:
I have not been on a plane or helicopter sinse.
Phil Must have been a long swim back to the mainland! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | You need one of these when you get your k-max.
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Location: Up North | The coolest part of riding in a helicopter is that first rush when you lift off, it's like being in a high-speed elevator. The next thing you know, you're two thousand feet up!
The scariest experience for me was trying to get that first shot from directly above the site. I had to ask the pilot to bank the copter over so I'd be looking straight down, harness attached, no door, sitting on the floor, feet on the skids. I don't think I've ever been more scared. But what a thrill!
The only thing that compares is when I got to pilot a 50's vintage MiG 17 fighter jet for about 15 minutes. |
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OT: Chopper Friday
