When I was in grade school we were close to Fort Walters and Santa Clause would come to the school every year in a loach or a UH-1. Since I had Nieghbor kids whose dad was air cavalry in Vietnam and knew some older kids that had recently shipped it was a little weird but cool at the same time. Had my one and only helicopter ride in a “Huey” that was enough to last me a lifetime.
A few years ago they were doing work
On the electric transmission lines behind my house and they had an old “Huey” with a platform rigged off the left side skids with a guy sitting out there with a welder just working away, welding In towers and line braces. That bird had to be overloaded with juevos.
The sounds and sights of a “huey” always puts me in mind of the Airplane’s album Surrealistic Pillow. Yeah I like them but it’s kind of weird.
They had this and at the same time I believe they also had a Avenger and a B-24 doing flights and fly overs.
They also have Yankee Lady, the B-17 bomber, here at least twice a year.
67U here. (Chinook Mechanic). I was in the Army from 85' to 93'. I logged many hours in Hueys and Black Hawks as well. I never get tired of hearing them.
According to the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, a total of 11,846 helicopters were shot down or crashed during the war, resulting in nearly 5,000 American pilots and crew killed. Of those servicepeople, 2,382 were killed while serving aboard UH-1 Iroquois, better known as the ubiquitous “Huey.”
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My wife is a big fan of Huey Lewis and the News and used to drag me all over the country, practically "stalking" him when the band was still touring. Does that count? lol. The 'copters are cool too though!
That's a sound I know very, very well. I grew up west of Lansing, Michigan and my parents' house was in the flight path of the Hueys that flew out of the Air National Guard base in Grand Ledge. Their house was in a subdivision in a valley formed by the Grand River. The Hueys would come in from the west and fly over the valley on their return path to the base. My room was on the second floor of the house, and my desk would literally shake as they flew overhead.
Rode in a few of them (Hueys) back the Vietnam days, and some OH-6s, too. Curst things tried to kill me on more than one occasion, as did a CH-34 one time). Still hate them, once all. They can be as iconic as they want to and I will still dislike them. Intensely.
You know those Italian swings at the amusement parks? I always got a sensation of sitting in a Huey door when I got on them and they start to flatten out.
"My Bai Whop Whop Whop" I had forgotten that one. I had remembered "My Bai Caribou."
Lots of rides, some were cool. Also got winched up into one on a rigid litter, bullets hitting the ship and gunners firing back. Most all the pilots were just out of high school and could do amazing things with them. You's see a lot of prior service officers and EMs who re-upped for flight school.
A town 7 miles from me is celebrating their 150th birthday on Labor Day weekend. The Friends of Army Aviation will be giving rides on a Huey. Might take the wife for a joy ride.
Better you than me. A few years ago the local Vietnam Veterans Assn. got a Huey from Ft. Hood (apparently kept as a display and recruiting tool; all dolled up for the 1st Cav - and I was in the First Team for a few years, though at Hood rather than in SEA) to come down on Veteran's Day. I was offered a (free) ride. Told them "No thanks, I don't like riding them". Still feel that way. I'll get in one on duty or out of medical necessity. Not otherwise.
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