Warbird Information Exchange

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Question:

Didn't we have a thread with the exact same theme, probably a year or so ago? The location was Phoenix too, as far as I recall.

Saludos,


Tulio

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I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

Yes, it is the same incident and it happened in May or June '06.

Back when I first started flying attack helicopters, I was flying the AH-1S Cobra in Mainz, Germany. It was in the early 80s, before the wall came down and we had a very complex community structure that of course included the U.S. Army, German and British air power in a very small air space structure. One of the favorite activities of the local anti U.S. faction was to call multiple times a day and make noise complaints.

To deal with this the Army put a full Col in charge of an area that dealt with this and other community relation issues. I happened to be the Staff Duty Officer when he finally broke down and had the following exchange with a local German guy who called almost every day.

German: Col _____, we have experienced additional damage from the overflight of our city by the U.S. Army Helicopters.

Col: Sir, How do you know it was a U.S. Army Helicopter, Sir, and not a Bundeswehr (German) helicopter?

German: The imperialist U.S. has more helicopters than anyone else in the world and are clearly the most destructive. And besides I saw a large "U.S. Army" sign on the side, these always do the most damage to our quiet community.

Col: I would like to correct you and solicit your help in the future. The U.S. doesn't maintain the largest fleet of helicopters in the world. If you happen to see a large helipcoter with a "Red Star" on the side, please call us promptly, they can be very damaging. Oh, and as a side note, please be advised if you do make that call, we will probably be flying a number of sorties in your neighborhood as well.

We got far fewer noise complaints after that.

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Eric

"I spent most of my money on alcohol, women and skyraiders....and the rest of it I just wasted."

Thats a good one!

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There used to be a sign in a previous squadron that went something like this:

"HAVE A NOISE COMPLAINT?"

"DID THE AIRPLANE LOOK LIKE THIS?"

<photograph of Su-27 Flanker>

"IF NOT, THEN WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?"

One morning last week CH-47's came over my house as I was getting ready to go to work. Rattled the windows and knocked the dust off the rafters! Loved every second they were over the neighborhood!

A little later in the morning another group of six or eight came over the office right about 500 feet. Would have traded anything to have been looking down from the rear deck of one of those big green monsters...

Thank You and Keep Up the Good Work ARMY AVIATION!

P.S. - In 10+ years of fighting wildfire, I have been supported by a number of aviation assets in some "interesting" situations. All have been helpfull but the Chinooks are the only thing I have seen actually put-out the fire There have been a couple of times I feel I owe somebody in green a cold one for turning the tide on my fires!

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