On 24/8/05, Cesar, discombobulated, unleashed: >Talking about location or situation, let me think on this - >1) I was sitting in a UH-1 with the doors open as we did a 'map of the >earth' return to our base in southern Honduras. The others hesitated >when the pilot asked if we wanted to do it, so I chimed in and said >yes! Nothing spectacular in terms of photos but it was the situation. >2) The first helicopter ride I ever took (in a Bell - the same type >used in the tv show 'Magnum P.I.') was in support of some radar >testing. We were over the Abermarle Sound in N. Carolina - I got some >great shots. One of them sits on one of my speakers in the living >room. It was when the pilot said 'oh, oh' as the helicopter shuddered, >and then again, that I began to wonder. To keep a long story short; it >was winter and we would not have lasted long in the water. We headed to >land and as we were getting ready to land in a field, the engine cut out >and we autorotated to the ground safely. This field ended up being just >two miles away from where a future girlfriend lived! Shortly, a local >newspaper reporter came out to greet us as we awaited our ride 'home'. >3)Another helicopter ride -is there a theme here?- along the >Honduras/Nicaragua border during the time of the Contras. I was >shooting away with the doors open in another UH-1 knowing full well that >I could not reveal where those shots were taken, when I heard the pilot >say 'oh, oh' [is that a standard for pilots?]. It seems we were in >Nicaraguan airspace and they would have been in the right to shoot us down!
Hey Cesar, have you read 'Chickenhawk' by Robert Mason? If you haven't - you should. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
