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In a Stuka..... no less.

Actually, he flew an Fw190D for the air-to-air kills..

As a guy pushing 6-0, I have nothing but the deepest respect for helicopter pilots. It's no accident that the 70's and 80's were a golden age for rotary wing aviation in the US stateside, courtesy of the US Army training organization.

I have know a lot of guys who flew or crewed in Hueys and such in Vietnam, and they pulled off a lot of miracles. It kind of tears me up thinking of some of the stories they told.

I have always thought helicopters were a bad idea, something I learned from Dad who knew a little about that stuff, but when called to duty, those crews really did it.

I'll shut up now, but thank you guys.

Hans von Hammer

In a Stuka..... no less.

Actually, he flew an Fw190D for the air-to-air kills..

bondoman

As a guy pushing 6-0, I have nothing but the deepest respect for helicopter pilots. It's no accident that the 70's and 80's were a golden age for rotary wing aviation in the US stateside, courtesy of the US Army training organization.

I have know a lot of guys who flew or crewed in Hueys and such in Vietnam, and they pulled off a lot of miracles. It kind of tears me up thinking of some of the stories they told.

I have always thought helicopters were a bad idea, something I learned from Dad who knew a little about that stuff, but when called to duty, those crews really did it.

I'll shut up now, but thank you guys.

Thank you sir!

Gene
Gunrunner 31 1970/71

Manstein's revenge

Hans von Hammer:

In a Stuka..... no less.

Actually, he flew an Fw190D for the air-to-air kills..

 

I believe some of the kills were in the Stuka but you he did fly a Fw190F-8 towards the end of the war and also the D as you mentioned...the stuka did have two mg's in the wings...

I dunno about any Stuka A2A kills for Rudel, but it's been over 35 years since I read "Stuka Pilot"...   Have you seen a profile for his F-8? I've only got one of his Dora...

I have know a lot of guys who flew or crewed in Hueys and such in Vietnam, and they pulled off a lot of miracles. It kind of tears me up thinking of some of the stories they told.

I have always thought helicopters were a bad idea, something I learned from Dad who knew a little about that stuff, but when called to duty, those crews really did it.

Read "Chickenhawk", by Robert Mason... It'll flat curl yer toe-nails back'ards...

All the hip problems I've had have stemmed from the Huey crash I was in in 1987... But it still never stopped me from flying in them, or any other helicopter...  Even though I got my Airborne wings much earlier in my career, I still loved the "Dope on a Rope" life...  Nuthin' like standing on top of a 9,000 pound howitzer in a gale-force wind, trying to hook a reach-pendant onto big-azz swarm of aluminum parts (that're loose, but flying in close formation) and weighing in at 24 thousand pounds hovering eight feet above your head...

 Besides... When you're Air Assault, you don't have to walk out...

Over to y'all for for a loud and thunderous, "Air Assault!"...

Almost inspired enough right now to pull that 1/35th Academy UH-60 kit back outta the stash...

Yeah, I gave that slacker Fermis my -46 kit that I never could finish. Wish he would do it up. Cobra co. upgraders and the whole bit.

I've got a 1/72 Super Frelon that I want to build, but it's a Mach 2 kit and I just don't have the juice in me right now to do it right- 6 Day War unloading troops in the Golan Heights.

Somehow 'copter kits just pass through my fingers and on to better modelers than I.

Maybe it's a black art or something.

You are welcome Gene, and any time.

When I was in Architecture school in 1971, you knew who they were. Briefcase with the jeans, married, always at class, ran the bell curve up and were serious folks. One night I was with a friend named Keith in his Mini Cooper (the real one) going out to dinner at his house after school.

Asked him about the 6" hairline scar.

He was right seat in a helicopter with about four or five others taking out a group of our soldiers in an intense battle, when one next to them just came apart at the seams and all kinds of stuff flew all over on the horizontal, decapitating his helo and the top 1/4" or so of his head.

So I'm thinking about that and how I like Keith because he's one of the kindest and gentlemost guys I ever met. His wife too.

AIR ASSAULT!!! although I'm in the cheap seats.

Hans von Hammer

 

 

Almost inspired enough right now to pull that 1/35th Academy UH-60 kit back outta the stash...

 

Whats stoppin you ? DO IT !

Shellback

 

Hans von Hammer:

 

 

 

Almost inspired enough right now to pull that 1/35th Academy UH-60 kit back outta the stash...

 

 

 

Whats stoppin you ? DO IT !

Asked him about the 6" hairline scar.

He was right seat in a helicopter with about four or five others taking out a group of our soldiers in an intense battle, when one next to them just came apart at the seams and all kinds of stuff flew all over on the horizontal, decapitating his helo and the top 1/4" or so of his head.

Yikes...

Worst I ever had (other than the crash) was the day that they'd just delivered a brand-new, freshly emptied and sanitized Kybo to a spot right next to our LZ in Ft Hood...

I was about to have me a good, calm, leisurely, morning sit-down, complete with a cuppa Joe, a smoke, and read my latest copy of..., Umm.. FSM...  yeah... That's it... FSM...

I get settled in, and sure as heck, the birds show up to drop the howitzers..  All of a sudden, the door comes up and hits me in the face, and I'm on my head and something REALLY wet is pouring out all over me...

The damn Chinook blew the Kybo over on its front, door on the ground, me on the door, and drowning in blue stuff that's pouring out of the tank, it's httin' me in the face, head, shoulders, hands, chest..... 

My troopage called me "Sergeant Smurf" for a friggin' week...

Shellback

Hans von Hammer:

 

 

Almost inspired enough right now to pull that 1/35th Academy UH-60 kit back outta the stash...

 

 

Whats stoppin you ? DO IT !

Man.. In front of me I have, on the bench right now, in 1/48th, a PT-17, Bf109, B-29, F6F, J2F, B-17, P-36, P-51B, Fw190A, and a Zeke with a total of 15 figure conversions... In 1/32, a Bf 109G (back-dating to an F), and five figure conversions... In 1/35th, an M60A2 with six figure conversions, plus two 1/4-ton M151s... All these are for dioramas, BTW...

Hans von Hammer

Shellback:

Hans von Hammer:

 

 

Almost inspired enough right now to pull that 1/35th Academy UH-60 kit back outta the stash...

 

 

Whats stoppin you ? DO IT !

 

Man.. In front of me I have, on the bench right now, in 1/48th, a PT-17, Bf109, B-29, F6F, J2F, B-17, P-36, P-51B, Fw190A, and a Zeke with a total of 15 figure conversions... In 1/32, a Bf 109G (back-dating to an F), and five figure conversions... In 1/35th, an M60A2 with six figure conversions, plus two 1/4-ton M151s... All these are for dioramas, BTW...

 

 

My wife has a look she gives me when ever i complain about too many projects on my work bench ............................................

Hans von Hammer

Asked him about the 6" hairline scar.

He was right seat in a helicopter with about four or five others taking out a group of our soldiers in an intense battle, when one next to them just came apart at the seams and all kinds of stuff flew all over on the horizontal, decapitating his helo and the top 1/4" or so of his head.

Yikes...

Worst I ever had (other than the crash) was the day that they'd just delivered a brand-new, freshly emptied and sanitized Kybo to a spot right next to our LZ in Ft Hood...

I was about to have me a good, calm, leisurely, morning sit-down, complete with a cuppa Joe, a smoke, and read my latest copy of..., Umm.. FSM...  yeah... That's it... FSM...

I get settled in, and sure as heck, the birds show up to drop the howitzers..  All of a sudden, the door comes up and hits me in the face, and I'm on my head and something REALLY wet is pouring out all over me...

The damn Chinook blew the Kybo over on its front, door on the ground, me on the door, and drowning in blue stuff that's pouring out of the tank, it's httin' me in the face, head, shoulders, hands, chest..... 

My troopage called me "Sergeant Smurf" for a friggin' week...

 

 

Oh man i'd of liked to of seen that happen !!!!

Yeah, it's funny... NOW..

I KNOW that the pilot thought it'd be funny as hell as he deliberately overflew the Kybo, too...  

How do you get out of an out house laying on its side ? HA HA HA , oh man what a scene !!!

I didn't... Not until the birds dropped the guns and flew off... THEN, a couple of my guys heard me yellin' and cussin' everything that flies with rotors and every GI that worked in a flightsuit, damning each and all to the infernal reaches and wishing a pox upon their houses...

They lifted the thing up enough for me to get the door open and crawl out (after a suitable crowd had gathered to witness the event, with much laughter), sputterin' mad and blue..  

EDIT: Just got to thinking.. I wonder if that incident would make a good diorama?

bondoman

Yeah, I gave that slacker Fermis my -46 kit that I never could finish. Wish he would do it up. Cobra co. upgraders and the whole bit.

 

 

 

 

Fermis showcased a (your -46) yesterday at the Roscoe Turner IPMS Show winter show in Indianapolis.

That's a beautiful model, but I think he built it one afternoon before I sent him mine.

Better blue than brown, I guess!

It would make a good diorama, and you can enter it in the "Humor in Modeling" category.

Hans von Hammer

I didn't... Not until the birds dropped the guns and flew off... THEN, a couple of my guys heard me yellin' and cussin' everything that flies with rotors and every GI that worked in a flightsuit, damning each and all to the infernal reaches and wishing a pox upon their houses...

They lifted the thing up enough for me to get the door open and crawl out (after a suitable crowd had gathered to witness the event, with much laughter), sputterin' mad and blue..  

EDIT: Just got to thinking.. I wonder if that incident would make a good diorama?

Better blue than brown, I guess!

That would make a good diorama, and then you can enter it in the "Humor in Modeling" category.

Here's one that occurs to me though....

Artillery out from Armor.

Hmmmmmm ....[^o)

Trouble with the diorama...

I can't figure out how to tell the story without the helicopter, and although the Kybo was indeed blown over while the bird was above it, the joke wouldn't be apparent until the bird was gone and the GI's had pulled their Sergeant from the wreckage, where he stands with a severe case of "The North Fort Hood Blues"...