My Electric Shorts

[RangerMan]

Originally Posted by MyronL

You never forget your very first ride in one... or those wild and crazy guys who flew them. Taught me great respect for the seat belt. BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA!

Sameo -- when I saw those uncovered burnt wires it also scared me silly.

When I'm remembering them I think more of 'WHUMP, WHUMP, WHUMP' of the engines. Now the door gunner, he was going 'BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA' .

[sameo416]

Originally Posted by RangerMan

When I'm remembering them I think more of 'WHUMP, WHUMP, WHUMP' of the engines. Now the door gunner, he was going 'BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA' .

We fit Gatling style door guns on our Griffins (Bell 412) for use in the sandbox, so more of a buuuzzzz now.

[RangerMan]

Originally Posted by sameo416

We fit Gatling style door guns on our Griffins (Bell 412) for use in the sandbox, so more of a buuuzzzz now.

We had 'Puff the Magic Dragon' C-47's and C-130's with Gatling's. They were a real welcome sight for a foot soldier.

[Vermilye]

Originally Posted by RangerMan

We had 'Puff the Magic Dragon' C-47's and C-130's with Gatling's. They were a real welcome sight for a foot soldier.

Yup! Outside Camp Eagle, RVN.

[RangerMan]

Originally Posted by Vermilye

Yup! Outside Camp Eagle, RVN.

Has it really been 55 years? I've turned down two chances for a tour to go back. Can't see the point for me.

[John in Santa Cruz]

I was never in the service, but in the mid 1970s, there was a SFO Helicopter service that ran a shuttle from SF Airport to a couple other points around the bay area in some shaky old big beast of a post-WW-II copter, I rode that several times from SFO to Sausalito and back so I could visit my family when I had a layover in SF en route back from a business trip. ahhh, Google tells me they flew S-61's which were the civvy version of a SH-3 Sea King.