Whiskyman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:58 am
Ibbyham wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:51 am
I been on helicopter for a ride in Cyprus once and it wasn't that comfortable.
If you stick to the M25 with a few protestors, tell those GSB to do one
I have only three times ridden in a helicopter. Once was on holiday in Canada when I took a sighseeing trip in one over the Niagara Falls. The other two times were from Battersea Heliport to Heathrow Airport prior to flying off on business trips. After the second one, on a day it was very windy and the short trip was, to say the least, not very pleasant, I decided in future I would forego the so called "executive fucking perks" and use the sodding tube to get to the airport.
I hate the fucking things.
I always thought the helicoptor as a transport was probably reasonably safe as they were used for years in the Vietnam war. And having spotted the opportunity to take a trip in a UH-1 Iroquois, better known as a 'Huey' while travelling in Texas, I went up for a spin.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered the door machine gun had been removed and they didn't play 'sympathy for the devil' during the flight.
That's $200 dollars in someone else's pocket and I didn't believe the pilots had flown during operation 'rolling thunder' either.
On later investigation, research revealed a total of 11,846 helicopters were shot down or crashed during the war, resulting in nearly 5,000 American pilots and crew killed. The life expectancy of a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam was between 13 and 30 days.
So don't do it folks...that Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore from 'Apocalypse Now' was not as real as he seemed...