Caption This!

"Dammit man, I told you in the briefing she couldn't do a handbrake turn"

"Sorry dude, but I was gaining on you & & you cut me off & & I so wanted that case of beer & & ...oh bugger it. Do you reckon the old man'll buy it if we tell him it came like that. Yeah, yeah. We tell him we opened up the box & whaddayaknow....."

Cobrahistorian wrote:

Mac,  he told me that on that end of Udairi, there were no tie downs, and in fact, they were warned about that ahead of time and so they didn't bring tie down chains.  Its just weird that one gust comes in and blows over ONE helicopter... very strange indeed!

It looks like the south end of the airfield.  That is the only portion where all of the pads were concrete in '04.  I have heard that they extended the ramp to the north.  Maybe they got smart and poured concrete for parking instead of laying asphalt pads.

Mac

According to my conversation with said CW4, the only damage to the bird was the crushed outer left pylon.  Believe it or not, the rotor blades were fine as was the transmission. 

Mac,  he told me that on that end of Udairi, there were no tie downs, and in fact, they were warned about that ahead of time and so they didn't bring tie down chains.  Its just weird that one gust comes in and blows over ONE helicopter... very strange indeed!

I can't compete...I'm surrounded by Professors in the field of Captioning!

"Frank, you use the rudder pedals to turn while taxiing, NOT THE CYCLIC!"

"You're a cyclic!"

Hey Jon,

I used those pads that those -64's are on and we had tiedowns.  I think a shamal just caught them with their pants down.  We didn't use tie downs unless winds were forecasted in excess of 30 kts

Mac

D#%N PILOT'S!!!!  I guess I won't be watching Felicity in the maintenance office tonite!

Mac

A true friend is someone who will sit beside you in the CO's office and say

 "Damn we $&^%@# up!" 

SEE I TOLD YA you put too much air pressure in the tyre's and they'll BLOW

I dont care what you say there is no way to "POP A WHEELIE" with an apache!......UMMM nevermind

Hey all, I just got some new information on this photo.  I spent about fifteen minutes with the 501st's Maintenance Chief today and asked him about this incident.  Apparently, at Udairi, there were no tie-downs on that end of the airfield.  The airfield got hit by a really strong windshear and it hit this bird.  Didn't touch the two on either side of it, but this one tipped over. 

Also, my apologies to the Steel Hunters of C/1-501, I misidentified this as a Taz Devils aircraft, but the Taz Devils were from the 1st Aviation, not the 501st Aviation, (the 1st Infantry Division's Apache battalion, not the 1st Armored Division's 501st.)