[Vhfcn-l] TET

[Arnold B Christensen]

Go ahead and talk Terry.  All my time wasn't spent on maintaining and 
inspecting helicopters.  Got 3 yrs taking care of in my spare time 
our other great starch wings name of L-20A later designated the U6A 
but the name never changed even as it flies today.  The Beaver. Ours 
was a gift from the AF and was 53-37925 or maybe it was a 56 
model.  The other one was the TL19D  and I cannot remember its serial 
number and don't know if it made it to Vietnam.  It was later 
designated as a 01-D.  The more well none Cessna was the plain L-19A 
and it became a 01A.  Later, again in Germany but Chief TI in a DS 
Aircraft Company in Hanua there was the L-21's which if I remember 
right, was redesignated as U-8.  Later I went to Cessna School at the 
factory on the U-3 as several of the Reserve Aviation Units my MAIT 
team assisted in New England and NY State owned.  Before that was an 
L-17 Navion in the Ft Wadsworth flying club at Miller Army Air Field.

Bring them on Super Coach.   Only problem with all of them and 
unsurmountable, was that they could not fly backwards or hover.  Of 
course Bell and Boeing working together came up with the V-22 and the 
Marines proved it.  But Bell would not let me fly on it.  Dang it.
Chris the Bigfoot

At 02:13 PM 1/27/2020, Terry McCollum via Vhfcn-l wrote:
>Back years ago our little group of missfits called the Wyoming 
>Association of Vietnam Veterans celebrated a
>TET Survival Party.  We held our gala event at a place named the 
>GOLDEN DRAGON.  It was owned and operated
>by a family that had escaped during the period of the Killing 
>Fields.  The owner and I were good friends, he had been
>a pilot in the Cambodian Air Force flying DC-3s and since that was 
>the last airplane I flew an the Army we spent lots
>of time talking about the old Gooney Bird.
>
>I hope you helicopter types wont mind my story about a great fixed wing.
>
>Terry McCollum
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