On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:39:29 -0500, "Paul" wrote:

This was pretty common in Vietnam...

Today Army Helicopters are forbidden to do it.

Yes, but civilian versions do it. Columbia helicopters did something
interesting with one of theirs
http://www.colheli.com/colheli.html and click on the "news and events"
item and scroll down to "hover barge photo"
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