Dave Kearton wrote:
Paul wrote:
This was pretty common in Vietnam...

Today Army Helicopters are forbidden to do it.




Thanks Paul and Jimmy (for the repost)


I downloaded Jim's smaller size first, then went back for Paul's original
pic.



As well as resizing my repost, I've played around a little with the colour
balance, to remove the orange discolouring that everything in the '70s had
back then.


Looks like someone in the triple deuce broke through the hard outer layer to
find that soft creamy centre. I've done it with a Land Rover - but
never had a Chinook to pull me out though.


Otherwise, it's time to break out the spades ....



Aviation Center put out a NOTAM back in 1970 (I think) prohibiting use
of slings for towing, etc and only to be used for sling loading static
cargo. I seem to remember this went out after a couple of CH47's pulled
themselves into the ground with fatal results. I saw one of these
situations outside of DaNang in 1967 or 68 when a Big Hook was trying to
lift an M551 Sheridan and just about didn't make it. The pilot
attempted a sort of "rolling" lift and evidently didn't know that the
track's were locked. He dragged it a couple hundred feet before the
load master pulled the pin and let the sling go. Made quite a crash
when the M551 set back down from about 25 feet. Wish I had had a movie
camera!

Cheers,

Dave