I remember working on [corrected]CH-34 avionics systems in Germany in the late 1960's. We had a crazy Chief Warrant Officer test pilot, and during one Reforger it was said he had outflown and forced to the ground an OPFOR OH-23. Hard to say if it actually happened, but empty the CH-34 could really manoever.
The avionics were just as old as the aircraft, and the ADF's (AN/ARN-6) were so unsteady that while I was in Hanau they brought in a shielded room with fltered power just to align them in. Alas, it didn't help.
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ka5s on Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:41 pm, edited 3 times in total.