[Vhfcn-l] TET

[Roger W. Ek]

> On Jan 27, 2020, at 3:54 PM, Arnold B Christensen via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I was flying from Pensacola to Memphis to pick up a part. There was an Army Beaver up ahead. I was flying a UH-2C which had two GE T-58-8T engines that could put out 1,450 HP - EACH. That’s 2,900 HP on a twist grip. The UH-2C had retractible gear so I boosted the power and cruised by the Beaver doing about 50 knots faster than his airspeed. 

>   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

I have the tiltrotor hat you gave me and it is on my keep forever shelf.

> 
> At 02:13 PM 1/27/2020, Terry McCollum via Vhfcn-l wrote:
>> The owner and I were good friends, he had been
>> a pilot in the Cambodian Air Force flying DC-3s 

https://seaplanemagazine.com/2018/02/03/glorious-dc-3-floats-max-folsom/ <https://seaplanemagazine.com/2018/02/03/glorious-dc-3-floats-max-folsom/>

Pretty good when you can tie together test flying Cambodian H-Model helicopters in Vietnam and an amphibious DC-3 on floats in Maine with the same old Seawolf pilot. 

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