[Vhfcn-l] STABO Rig Question

[VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew]

Funny how different services develop or use similar things but we also seem to do our work in a vacuum.
I recall the older hoists I was exposed to were quite slow and tended to heat up so much they had to take a break between lifts.  I never saw the kind you spoke of.  In the  early 80s we did play around with extracting and inserting individuals into small locations with a new version.  Still it only had a 250' long cable and was probably not as fast as the one you described.  I wonder if the services were not  talking to each other all  these years!
We never had anything like the  Pugh Net either.  It would have been handy to  extract our dead and wounded, prisoners or material  we had  captured.  


-----Original Message-----
From: VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
To: MoeElmore <MoeElmore at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 18, 2019 8:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Vhfcn-l] STABO Rig Question



> On Jun 18, 2019, at 8:43 PM, VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> I never rigged an aircraft to use STABO.  We only rigged them for  ladders and McGuire rigs.  So I am not sure where you used nuts and bolts.  I expect things became more technical as time went on.  All things considered, I am normally a fan of safety wire. Moe

I never saw a McGuire rig or a STABO. I flew with the Seawolves in 70/71. We had the UH-1L and HH-1K. Yes,there is such a thing. The K-Model had the biggest engine in the smallest Huey airframe. It had a special 300 foot high speed hoist. The rescued person came up FAST! He came up so fast that the hoist had to slow for the last 50 feet so the man on the hoist did not go right by into the rotor system!

Navy search and rescue squadrons had the Billy Pugh net. It was a basket n injured man could get into when he was unable to get into a horse collar sling. It was named after a man who served in the Coast Guard in WWII. We had the net in 1963 in my first squadron. I met Billy Pugh at Pensacola in1972. He founded a company and improved his net for transferring people safely and routinely on offshore oil rigs, commercial ships and high construction jobs. 

I rescued an Israeli fighter pilot at sea. I don’t know of any other Navy pilot who has done that. different story. 

========================================================
              ///,        ////
              \  /,      /  >./    For those that have fought for it,
              \  /,  _/  /.      Freedom has a flavor the protected
                \_  /_/  /.      will never know.
                \__/_  <
                /<<< \_\_        Roger W. Ek
                /,)^>>_._ \        Seawolf 25              VHPA Life 3377
                (/  \\ /\\\            Gentleman Flyer of the Delta
                      // ````          China Post #1, AL, In Exile    VVAK
          ====((`=====      mequest at telplus.net    OWLS     Molon Labe
========================================================

Please Note: It is OK to print this e-mail. Paper is a recyclable, biodegradable, renewable, and sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs for millions of people, and working forests are good for the environment. Working forests provide clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat and carbon sequestration.

_______________________________________________
Vhfcn-l mailing list
Vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org
This message was delivered to MoeElmore at aol.com
http://lists.vhfcn.org/mailman/listinfo/vhfcn-l