[Vhfcn-l] TINS Mid Air With a B1RD

[DARRELL ELMORE]

Running night blackout operations in the Philippines we rode on the pods mounted on OH-6s. I rode in front and on every flight I fully expected to end up wearing one of those guys all over my face! Luckily we all escaped that fun. 
Moe 

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> On Mar 30, 2023, at 3:24 PM, Roger Ek via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 30, 2023, at 10:46 AM, Darryl James via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:
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>> Guys, 
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>> Below is an excerpt from my book, Phoenix 13. We refer to these stories as
>> TINS,  meaning this is no S**T. At Americal Divarty Air, we flew the
>> single-pilot scout helicopter (the obsolete OH-23G, which the OH-6A
>> replaced). Flying alone, we had to learn from each other's experiences with
>> these often colorful TINS-typically told during Happy Hour at the DivArty
>> Officer's Club.
> 
> Fruit bats are BIG. The have a wingspread of over 3 feet. They don’t ;like fresh fruit. They liked rotten fruit; VERY rotten fruit. We were flying low level after sunset and there was a sudden BLAM! And the cockpit was full of loose material. My copilot said, “I’m  HIT!” 
> I said, “Are you bleeding?” He said, “I don’t think so. What’s that stink?” 
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> The stink was the disassembled fruit bat. We rinsed out that old B-Model very well because we had an earlier one that carried the odor all the way back to Texas. 
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> Roger Ek
> Seawolf 25. 
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