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will do matey. :)

 

They can't get to the keyboard right now as,.... they're alittle "tied up" right now!

 

[evil laugh] Muh hah hah hah

 

So what you're really saying is you have an elaborate and if I may say so, expensive arrangement with the RAF to drop round, make some noise, just so you can attend to Niz & Carl, without anyone hearing a thing?

 

Ingenius.

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So what you're really saying is you have an elaborate and if I may say so, expensive arrangement with the RAF to drop round, make some noise, just so you can attend to Niz & Carl, without anyone hearing a thing?

 

Ingenius.

 

Nothing drowns out screams like two Lycoming T55's running at full power.

 

In return, I interrogate any terrorist subjects the MOD need questioning. It all kinda works out ok,... and the dustbin men take the trash ever thursday and understand to NEVER, under no circumstances look in the bags. :blink:

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I've worked on these things for nearly 20 years now so I can well believe that they stopped for directions. They quite often follow roads to get to places. I know a few pilots that don't bother to route plan to salisbury plain they just follow the M3 lol. They in fact have several female pilots and we all know that the female of the species don't have hang ups about asking for directions :) You are lucky that your house didn't get blown away as the downwash from these beasts is very destructive. A chap in the falklands was killed whilst sheltering behind a couple of stacked ISO containers, the top one got blown off by the downwash and kersplatted him.

What you really need to do is see an air display with a chinook in, seeing a helicopter go backwards is awesome.

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I've been to quite a few air displays mate and seen the chinook display.

Its indeed an awesome machine.

 

I remember a few years ago reading about an SBS team that went into a jungle senerio to save some hostages from some extremist rebels. As the RAF (or Army as it may have been then) hovered over the huts in the jungle clearing the SBS needed to know which buildings had hostages and which had the bad guys. The pilots decided to use the downwash from the blades to remove the tim and corrugated roofs,... and it worked.

 

I think most rebels where so scared seeing the dust and chaos they just legged it into the jungle without firing.

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I've been to quite a few air displays mate and seen the chinook display.

Its indeed an awesome machine.

 

I remember a few years ago reading about an SBS team that went into a jungle senerio to save some hostages from some extremist rebels. As the RAF (or Army as it may have been then) hovered over the huts in the jungle clearing the SBS needed to know which buildings had hostages and which had the bad guys. The pilots decided to use the downwash from the blades to remove the tim and corrugated roofs,... and it worked.

 

I think most rebels where so scared seeing the dust and chaos they just legged it into the jungle without firing.

 

That may well have been Sierra Leone and they used a mini gun to make the west side boys run along. Strangely enough the 80 odd bodies weren't there by the time the press got there. Gross job for the guys putting half bodies in the back then hosing the rank bits back out afterwards:(

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