Anyone ever pick up anything Intersting?

[Rotorboy2]

Slinging polar bears this year!

That was pretty cool (well, the chasing was cool, the slinging was just slinging)

[Bell Boy]

Forgot about this spring I picked up some mud, getting to be that time of year again.

 

Keep the shiny side up guys

 

bell Boy

[T tail]

I hope you filled out a weight and balance for that to keep the feds happy !!!! :up:

 

TT

[downwash]

Bell Boy, you reminded me of an interesting 'pick' in days of yore. Flying a Bell 47 just south of the NWT border and Fort Liard with two geologists, spotted a wing with a red star on it down through the trees. Circled and found it to be a wrecked twin-engine warplane, and those red stars obviously made it one of the 'lend-lease' aircraft the U.S. ferried across to the Russians during WWII.

 

We landed a couple of hundred yards away and slogged through the brush to the ship. It turned out to be a Douglas A20 'Attack' aircraft, and was completely armed with 50 caliber machine guns (no ammo, of course). I got the registration plate and the face off the airspeed indicator, while the younger of the geologists decided he had to have a 50 cal. for the mantle over his fireplace. It made a pretty heavy cargo rack load, but we got out of the hole OK.

 

That fall I contacted the USAF and told them about the find. They advised that it was one of a flight of six that had an engine failure in a thunderstorm en route to Alaska, for Russia. The crew all bailed out, and were picked up by US Army Corps of Engineers folks that were working on the Alaska Highway.

 

Kind of wish I had that 50 cal now.

[67november]

a working MA DUECE would be a great mantle piece

[twinstar_ca]

incredible pics, BB... but now i'm really curious... would this have been a lead cause for dynamic rollover had one of the clumps broken off the paw when you settled the weight on?? i would think that would have been high on your mind!!!

 

so what could one do to mitigate this circumstance??

[treetopflyer]

Hey Bell boy,

 

Thanks for bringing back some memories of being a 100 hour pilot and cleaning other pilots helicopters and of course cleaning my own after I finally got in the seat. I'm sure my therapist will appreciate the extra money come x-mas time.

 

ttf

[Bell Boy]

downwash I am still looking for a find like that, great story.

 

Twinstar you are right, dynamic rollover was high on my mind. This happened after about 15 takeoffs and landings in 2 hrs of flying. I let my passenger out with it still spooled up, and of course being an operator he screwed off before I could get him to chip it off. By this time I was sitting full weight on it for about 5-10 min so figured if they were going to bust loose they would have done it by now. Although that was the longest 2 min cooldown in history! Took about 10 gal of hot water and a little elbow grease to clean them right off.

 

have a good one

 

Bell Boy

[Bell Boy]

and sorry Twinstar, to keep this from happening again I would, have my passenger clean it off as we went along. The wells we were going to were mostly new lease sites, I hounded the oil company for pads or timbers to land on and they got crews to build helipads at all the new wells. It was just a cold enough day with lots of soft mud.

 

Bell Boy

[MINI]

Never did pick it up but dearly regret it. When I was flying for Sealand many moons ago out of Goose Bay there was an old Piasakie that had crashed on a direct track between Goose and Naine. I landed near it one day to see what was left of it.Planed to go back one day and get the pilots seat collectiv and pedals and put them in my den or something but it never happened. Bummer.. But I did get a shite load of 50 cal sheels from an old B36 that crashed out side of Goose. Once the word got out the military and the cops went back and got the remaining gun out of the plane. I believe it resides in the Bulldog Club or the Mac club in Goose Bay..

 

Cheers and good Day Mini..........