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wrote:
I spent a couple hours talking to Larry Neil at the recent Sun n Fun here in
Florida..He is a very interesting person and has some enviable back ground
experiences.
He has a Harley Davidson powered machine on the drawing boards as well..

My last AH1G flite would have been in 1972 when I was at Aberdeen Proving
Grounds. I think I was flying an experimental infra red system.I worked on
the Tow Cobra upgrade specs, and the Hellfire sight system. Very early
bread board stuff..


Quite a great life. I was High School to Flight School back in 70. In
72 I was just transitioning into the Cobra. You remember in 79 or so
they came out with the 3 paths a Warrant could take, Standards
(Instructor), Safety, or Maintenance. I had the misfortune to be
assigned to Ft Eustis as an instructor pilot and I let the Maintenance
test flight school talk me into teaching Maintenance Test Pilots, which
required me to go through AMOC. As a double tracked Warrant the Army
assigned me to units needing Maintenance Officers since that was always
a shortage MOS for AH-1's in Korea and Germany.

So it wasn't until 1988 when I went to Rucker to the OH58D
Transition/Instructor courses that I got out of maintenance. Then
wouldn't you know it, this Kuwait thing came up.

So I had a semi-miserable career and would much rather followed in your
footsteps.


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boB
Wing 70

U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)