From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 22:07:35 PST
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From: "sandman9" <sandman9@optonline.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
> There is a complete one in Montana for $150000.00
> John Peterson
Hmm. I might have to sell my M151 to raise that kind of money. Maybe a
couple radios too. :)
Thanks to everyone who replied sorting out my 'usage' /categories of
operation stuff. I see that $150,000 creature is carrying a civvy N-reg
which presumably means it's been certified for civvy use at someone else's
expense? Would one be able to tell what category it was certified under by
running the N-number through some FAA agency?
I've been to Uh-1.com a couple of times. I really get turned off when
fifty-three ads all have "make offer" in the "price" field, mostly because
that generally means another run-in with the aviation equivalent of Farmer
Shotgun (y'know, they never say "Stick 'em Up!", but you know they're
*thinking* it... ;)
As to the Hueys getting into "the wrong hands" and what-not, that's a little
silly because all budding terrorist Abdul Krashemala has to do is head on
down to the aerodrome in Greater Little Toe, Nevada, and spend a few
thousand bucks on some clapped-out Jet Ranger from the flying school.
<shrug> I doubt those kinda guys are going to be into expending their
resources on 35 yr old, one-owner,
driven-by-a-little-old-GI-to-work-every-morning, gas-guzzling fixer-uppers
in pursuit of their nefarious ends, but...legislative mileage may vary.
Third-world Tin-pot dictators might have visions of acquiring some to
oppress the local population ("Help! I'm being Oppressed!") to the tune of
"Ride of the Valkyries" or somethin', but...it's been done. Old hat. It's
all so...Pinochet. Anyhow, it's the enlightened 2000's now. They'll
probably hold out for Blackhawks...
When I was in England in 1989, I hit every museum I could drag the old man
to. One of them was the RAAF Museum at the old airfield at Middle Wallop.
(I love how all the names sound as though they were plagiarized from Beatrix
Potter.) Anyhow, out in the parking lot they had a bunch of junk captured
from the Argentinians during the Falklands War including most of a Pucara
jump-jet, some odds'n'sods of AAA-kinda stuff.....and a Huey.
I've always liked Hueys, so naturally I climbed all over it. I didn't take
photographs but I'm pretty sure it was a UH-1B or C (Bell 204 - shorter than
the 205 and the UH-1H), and the Argie paintjob was flaking off like some $40
Maaco special ("for Forty-FIVE dollars - we'll even wash it first!") As
you worked on bits and pieces of the Argie paintwork (while nobody was
looking), the previous marking scheme came to light - in English. Mostly in
English. On the "Driver's Door" was something written in Vietnamese I
didn't have the presence of mind to write down, but it was similar to stuff
I'd seen on various Hueys in books I'd read on the VN war. Wow. If only
that thing could talk. The first thing I thought of when I caught sight of
the Vietnamese writing was seeing all those ARVN UH-1s being dumped off the
decks of those aircraft carriers during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975 (I
was a typical 11-yr old, and figured if they didn't want them - here's my
address...)
I guess the Destruction, Restriction and Mutilation Service (DRMS) could
selectively mutiliate the same part on all the ones they release as
Not-to-Be-Flown - but as has been suggested - hopefully in a way that
doesn't reduce them to a pile of artsy tinfoil (like the current
requirements for the 'sale' of those C-130 fuselages at Davis Monthan.) I
personally think it's a terrible thing to do a machine like that, but could
live with it if it meant the difference between saving them and...Gama
Goat-ing them.
("Thank you for purchasing your Gama Goat through GL. Please take the tires
and wheel nuts to the checkout as per contract, and have us verify that
everything else has gone through the shredder. Alot.")
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