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   Gweedo Murray said, about 16 hours ago

   No. I’m like an idiot ! Watch me go..

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   GEE1A said, about 16 hours ago

   Intern Fern they call him.

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   Alabama_Al said, about 15 hours ago

   I swear, you could cut Jeff’s head off and I don’t think he’d be any dumber.

   And after he delivers that message, we may find out.

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   Joe Allen Doty said, about 15 hours ago

   I rode on a Chinook helicopter for about 40 miles when I was stationed in South Vietnam.

   I caught a ride on it at Duc Pho and it took me to the Marine Air Base at Chu Lai.

   Jeff Redfern is still a green horn CIA intern. If anything happens and it destroys enemy property or kills enemy forces and he gets credit for it, he didn’t do it on purpose, his bumbling created an accident in the US Military’s favor.

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   pbarnrob said, about 15 hours ago

   A little concerned about the Whumpa-Whumps… Whup-whup-whup is one thing, if there’s a heavy load (like water tanks).

   Pretty amazing just how smooth rotor sounds can be made with the right sanding and finishing, almost ‘stealth’. But I hear it’s a fine, almost lost, art.

   We’re close enough to an LA County Fire Camp and the PD’s eyrie that we hear quite a few of them.

   This little trip could become an adventure in a heartbeat.

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   luckylouie said, about 15 hours ago

   Yep. An adventure is someone else in deep s**t far away.

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   antburman said, about 10 hours ago

   Cute. Are the geek and the goofball supposed to be falling in love?

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   Takiniteasy said, about 10 hours ago

   I was crew chief on a Chinook, Joe, only we didn’t call ‘em “Chinooks”, if you know what I mean.

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   Bill Case said, about 9 hours ago

   Predict the helicopter will not make it to Kandahar and she’ll have to rescue his worthless behind.

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    Dypak said, about 9 hours ago

    I’m with pbandrob. That’s a UH-60 Blackhawk they’re in and they don’t sound like that unless something is wrong. I was in a EH-60 (no typo) Blackhawk crew in West Germany and Bosnia. Bill Case might be right!

    And relax, I know you can ride in a Blackhawk and talk about Chinooks. Not saying anyone was wrong.

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    WaitingMan said, about 8 hours ago

    Oxford English Dictionary spells it d’oh.
    (True, it was added 2 years ago.)

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    First_Of_The_Fallen said, about 7 hours ago

    You know, just because there’s a WHUMP WHUMP sound effect doesn’t mean anything’s wrong. Maybe that’s just GT’s rendering of blade noise.

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    Susan001 said, about 7 hours ago

    A schnook in a Chinook. Cool!

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    Joe Allen Doty said, about 6 hours ago

    When I rode in a Chinook helicopter, I didn’t ask the Army Warrant Officers who piloted it what their nickname for it was.

    I only told one of them that I needed to get back to Chu Lai. There were several of us who needed to hitch a ride back to the air base close to our units.

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    Chrisnp said, about 6 hours ago

    Nice catch on the sound effects - that isn’t quite the right sound, although I’m not convinced it was intentional. I certainly hope there is no romance about to happen. The last thing she needs is another jerk in her life. I wouldn’t mind seeing her save his hide though.

    Chinooks - First time I rode in one, I pointed out that hydrolic fluid leaking all over the place. Crew chief smiled and told me I only needed to worry when it stopped leaking.

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    Dmajor said, about 5 hours ago

    I thought they were supposed to sit *on* their helmets, no?

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    Dypak said, about 5 hours ago

    First time I rode in a Chinook was to jump out of one, at about 6,000 feet. Much nicer than jumping out of a C-130. You don’t have to fly around and wait as long to do the jump.

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    efergus3 said, about 5 hours ago

    Dmajor: Only if you didn’t have a flack vest to sit on.

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    P.J. Liggett said, about 5 hours ago

    I first jumped from an H21 at 2500 feet. Pre Huey.

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    Ushindi said, about 4 hours ago

    I worked with nuclear weapons in a country where we never admitted to having them - sort of glad they never had to be used. Kept me out of helicopters, anyway. (Hope that’s not still classified info - I’ll stop here.)

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    Thinginthebasement said, about 2 hours ago

    Wouldn’t you like to ride in my beautiful war machine with cannons and missiles.

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    Dypak said, about 1 hour ago

    P.J. Liggett - Now that’s doing it old school! The old flying banana! My mothers husband knew Frank Piasecki during WWII. Really great engineer.