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Here's some helicopter pic's


This is the AH-1F Cobra Attack helicopter that I crewed in 1986
It's hard to see in the photo but on the turret fairing it reads" The lord giveth and the 20mm taketh away"
At Ft. Hood when we picked up our longbows
Taken on the flight line at Fort Hood,Texas during the summer of 1999. I was assigned as a flight company platoon sergeant in Bravo Company, 2-101st Aviation Regiment, Fort Campbell, Kentucky. We were at Hood for the AH-64D Longbow Apache transition. (Sharp eyed viewers will notice that that acually is a Royal Netherlands Air Force Longbow!)
AH-64A firing a 2.75 rocket
I found this picture at the Boeing factory web site
AH64-D flying low
Also from the Boeing factory web site
Flight of AH-64A's
This famous photo can also be found at www.Boeing.com
I knew I should have parked elsewhere!!
This is an actual photo of the 4 Hummers that were hit by a stray hellfire missile during a gunnery at Fort Campbell, KY. They were parked in range control's parking lot. This happened sometime in 1996-1997. The Reserve Apache unit from Ft. Knox was piggybacking on our range and mistook the first hummer for a valid target.The other three went up in the fireball that followed. As you can see there's not much left!
AH-1F Cobra's fly one last time
I found this picture on the Schofield Barracks PAO web site. It is of the last active army flight of Corba's. The end of an era.
V-22 Ospery
While traveling in Texas, I drove by the Bell Plant and saw this V-22 being test flown. I walked about a half a mile from the road right up to the fence and took some pictures. Later, by chance, I met the pilot and was informed that this was only the second Osprey off the production line.
F-14 Tomcat buzzin the carrier
Yea, ok you got me.I know this ain't a helicopter but it's such a cool picture I couldn't resist posting it here. And if I could remember who sent it to me I would surely give them the credit.
Bringing a Longbow back out to the flight line
Some of the less glamourous work of ground handling aircraft around using a tug.
Flight line at Fort Hood
This is the Bravo company parking ramp while we were at Fort Hood for Longbow train up.
"Redemptions" by Dru Blair
This the latest painting by aviation artist Dru Blair. Interestingly enough the day we came back from Longbow transition at Ft Hood, the same day we had a large reception with the secretary of the army as our guest of honor, Dur Blair showed up at the hanger and asked for us to take one of our longbows out and hover it so he could get some photos to paint from. Well the result is his latest painting "Redemptions". So just to set the record straight the Longbow in the painting is Longbow 048 from the Bravo Company "Gremlins" of the 2-101st Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, KY



UPDATE!!!! Longbow 048 was destroyed by CW2 Jeff Wellington, B Co, 2-101st, when he entered brownout conditions while attempting to take off on the same mision that found Army pilots CW2 Williams and CW2 Young Iraqi prisoners of war.


All of Dru Blairs art can been seen and ordered at www.drublair.com

 

UPDATE!!!! March 2007.   048 is ALIVE!!!!!! While working in my present job as as a CFT AMCOM Project OLR Quality Control Inspector (TI in Army lingo) I saw 048 in the flesh. It has been rebuilt and is back with the fleet. 2-101st has moved to Ft. Riley, KS and is now known as 2-1 AVN.



 
   
 

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