Mr. T-Bagg
I watched the whole thing. Looks like an awful lot of moving parts to me! :beer:
The shot inside from the rear of the two gunners @ 7:15 reminds me of old B17 footage. And I loved the rotor wash taking out the wall @ 15:+ or so.
Got-Dammit! – youth is so fucking wasted on the young!. To paraphrase Gus McCrae ¨I wish I was still young and pretty¨!
There ain´t enough beer buttons on here :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

Funny Story about cargo sling ops…

When my squadron deployed to Nam in June ’65 we first spent a month on Okinawa doing final training and workups for combat ops. The aircraft we flew was the UH-34D helo (that’s one in my avatar). We “inherited” the aircraft that were permanently assigned to the air station when we rotated there. So our maintenance folks were unfamiliar with the intimate overall condition of the aircraft.

One day we were lifting the battalion artillery out to the range for some firing. We used a cargo sling fixed under the belly of the helo that had an electrically operated hook controlled by the pilot. The hook was operated by a button switch on the control stick (cyclic). This switch had to be armed by a separate switch that had a guard cap holding it in the off or safe position.

Unfortunately, these systems hadn’t been tested before we used them that day and several of the a/c had electrical faults that triggered (opened) the hook when the arming switch was turned on. Yep… sure enough as the a/c approached the drop zone and the pilot went to “armed” on the safety switch, the hook opened and a nice shinny 105 howitzer got dropped from 100 feet or so. That happened to 3 or 4 a/c as I remember, and those pieces didn’t shoot real straight that day. The artillery battalion CO had some juicy words to say to our CO that night…lol.

Moral of the story…don’t stand under a UH-34D with a cargo sling hauling cargo…