[Vhfcn-l] TET

[Roger W. Ek]

> On Jan 31, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Arnold B Christensen via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
> 
> They all began with "Hotel then a number which as I remember was Johns place as Hotel three and were Hotel 6 and AMMC was Hotel 7.  Then there was the AF Crash rescue H43 chopper place. Never heard their place mention as a Hotel anything.
> 
> Chris the Bigfoot

We got four HH-1Ks because their hoist was 300 feet long. We could not reach the ground with the hoist on the UH-1L in the triple canopy jungles in Cambodia. I picked up all four K-Models at Hotel 3; two on Nov. 5, 1970 and two on Nov, 6. I gave them thorough preflights because the rotor heads and blades had been on there less than 24 hours. I once saw a D-Model that had been FLOWN with the red tail boom bolts on the tail boom. There was much yelling and arm waving so I went over to see what was going on. Good thing nobody had done a good old fashioned side flare. ;-)

I once saw an H-21 do a side flare. When I saw it happening, I thought I sure hope this is intentional. Turns out that it was. 

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