Chinooks
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- ********
Are cool as fuck. Just saw one flying over london. I want one.
- emecks0
I flew one once.
For real, well a simulator anyway... in Aberdeen... one they used for training chinook pilots on... crashed the fucker after 30 seconds, not the helicopter but the software... had to climb out of the hydraulic box on a fucken rope ladder!!
Moral of the tale: Don't let MX loose on multimillion pound equipment.
- Nairn0
I always worry when I see those fuckers fly over London - I mean, there's not much of a day-to-day need for 'oiking large numbers of battle-ready troops around is there?
...or is there?
WHAT'S HAPPENING?! RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE JIHADIS ARE COMING!!
*cough. Yeah, Chinooks are cool.
- ********0
The RAF took a Seaking to our school once and took loads of people for trips up and down the Moray Firth.
I was in a mates garage playing pool and only found out the next day. Gutted.
- kelpie0
ha ha ha !!
- emecks0
they are cool until the front rotor hits the rear rotor and it plunges from the sky into an icy North Sea killing all but the pilot and one passenger.
Hence them not being used to transport oil rig workers from Aberdeen anymore.
*soldiers are of course expendable and thus still carried in them.
- ********0
I always worry when I see those fuckers fly over London - I mean, there's not much of a day-to-day need for 'oiking large numbers of battle-ready troops around is there?
...or is there?
WHAT'S HAPPENING?! RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE JIHADIS ARE COMING!!
*cough. Yeah, Chinooks are cool.
Nairn
(May 9 05, 04:52)Aye, it does make you wonder.
On a similar wierd note, the last few weekends there have been people (military?) parachuting into Hackney Downs park. What the fuck thats all about I have no idea.
- vespa0
there was a really loud helicopter doing boglaps around my neighbourhood this morning at 3.30 am. grr. don't think it was a chinook tho
- emecks0
skt fer real, should been in the Air Cadets...
Chipmunk
Seaking
Nimrod
Viking(??) Gliderheaps o' flying!!
- kelpie0
true, a fair few of my mates were in the ATC, lucky bastards.
I ran around fields carrying the biggest machine gun in Christendom for a while getting wet cold and hungry in teh Army Cadets. Utter shite.
Apart from the whole killing a guy with a desert spoon bit, that was cool. I can really do that you know, truth.
- stewart0
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- stewart0
... vs
- vespa0
Apart from the whole killing a guy with a desert spoon bit, that was cool. I can really do that you know, truth.
kelpie
(May 9 05, 05:01)what's a desert spoon? is that how all the army lads sleep to stay warm?
- ********0
ha ha ha. Desert Spooning™
- emecks0
Apart from the whole killing a guy with a desert spoon bit, that was cool. I can really do that you know, truth.
kelpie
(May 9 05, 05:01)what's a desert spoon? is that how all the army lads sleep to stay warm?
vespa
(May 9 05, 05:05)They're not called the desert bum rats for nothing you know.
- kelpie0
I think they just call that a big military cluster fuck Vespa :)
- vespa0
oh, "they" do, do "they"?
- kelpie0
don't try and trap me Pun-lady - I am trained to kill, even over teh internets :\
- ********0
I wrecked one once and it hurt my *ss
- Nairn0
The only cool thing about ATC was the anti-drugs lectures they did... I've never since forgotten the sweet smell of hashish, and subsequently spent the next 14 years (and counting) of my life as a pothead instead of a pilot.
"Fly high, free bird".
- vespa0
WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
KELPIE JUST TRIED TO DESERT SPOON ME!!!