Vietnam Picture

[imntxs554]

Here is the Website of the Models of this Sweet Apache.

http://www.airforceworld.com/heli/eng/ah64.htm

[CINDERS]

Very good flying the rear rotor is very close to a bank also you get glimpses of some blindfolded guests of the US troops
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...86ETyJrx-7ApPA

[Gil Boyd]

Flying10uk,
Probably re painted and flying in Brunei knowing the AAC. Brilliant use of a SCOUT front end in the Mess as a fish tank, waste not want not

[imntxs554]

A fifth Marine CH-46 in Operations Hastings to go down 15 July 1966, in a place that gained the nickname, 'Helicopter Valley', in Vietnam. Hit by enemy AAA fire, a doomed H-46 from HMM-265 trails smoke and flame. The H-46 crashed, and exploded upon impact, in "Helicopter Valley" on the afternoon of 15 July 1966 -- the fifth H-46 lost in the valley that day. Of the 16 Marines aboard (4 crewmen and 12 Grunts) 13 died in the crash and fire. Although severely burned, the remaining three Marines survived. By the end of 1966 there were approximately over 385,000 US Soldiers already in Vietnam.

[Brian Dick]

American Huey 369, American Huey 369, always bring one to the Knob Creek Range show in Kentucky from their museum in Indiana. They have two, one a gunship and the other a Medevac. I went for a ride with a cousin from Ontario several years who'd never been in a helo before and it was a riot to watch his reactions since we were only strapped in by the usual lap belt with the side door open. He was looking for things to grab onto! I always said that you haven't really flown until you've been in one. They don't really fly, they beat the air into submission! The "Creek" show is in a couple of weeks so come join in the festivities.

[imntxs554]

There a Blast to be in...we did lots of Training in the Huey and the Hook in MWT. You were always in the mercy of the pilots. I'll never forget some maneuvers these pilots would pull during transportation. That was fun training.

[Paul S.]

https://www.milsurps.com/attachment....1&d=1475401004

The pictured aircraft above has a cable cutter at and above the centre of the windscreens. I noticed that straight off since I remember the Iroquois flown in Vietnam didn't have them. I remember being at the US Army Heliport ('Hotel Three') at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in 1969 or early 1970 waiting for transport and being told that a 'Huey' just crashed upside down into the Mekong River killing all four aboard after taking off from the Saigon docks when it hit a power line cable stretched across the river.

[Peter Laidler]

Tan Son Nhut was the big air base at Saigon as I recall where all the big stuff came in. Our little place was Dawsons Field. Please correct me if I am wrong with my old memory. Tan Son is now the main Saigon airport - or whatever it's called now but it ain't Tan Son Nuht or Saigon!

[browningautorifle]

we were only strapped in by the usual lap belt with the side door open.

I've done lots of map of the earth flying in tac ops like that and less, sitting with feet on the strut. New guys don't understand you won't fall out...

[CINDERS]

As an army cadet in the '71-2 they took us up in one at the Northam army base and flipped it around the sky quite well with the doors open, noisy and windy but great fun I suggest to anyone given the chance to go in one of these for a flight it is well worth the monies to experience it...........