On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 15, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Rod Smallwood <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
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>> ...
>> DEC had a helicopter service. The pilots had nealy all been in Vietnam.
>> I heard the following story at a sales meeting.:
>>
>> The helicopters would usually rise gently to 2000' and set course fo the 
>> next plant. Unless you asked how they had got on in SE Asia.
>> Then you got the "how to get to the drop zone whilst avoiding AAA, smallarms 
>> fire and ground to air missiles demo".
>> Aparrantly one guy said to the person sat next to him it's a pity you had 
>> your eyes closed when we flew under the high voltage wires.
>> You missed going under the bridge on the other side

They would even fly a team of technicians to a mountaintop to install
a microwave receiver and a single terminal on it!

-- 
        Eric Christopherson

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