From: Ed (mojoedd@bellsouth.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 21:08:32 PST
Good luck Chance! We are trying to restore our UH-1H for the American
So far we have ZERO items that were promised, yes that's ZERO. We are
I am 100% disabled and am living on a VERY small check. My friends are
As I said I wish you the best of luck my friend! If you would like the
If you are a museum there are more places that you can talk to. We are a
Best Regards,
Ed
"Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead; see
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> While I'm on the subject of helicopters (and I seem to post this once a
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Legion Post that we are members of. Tons of people promise to do things and
give things and say that they have plenty of support to give, don't worry we
will help you make it happen.
trying to bring her up to at least "group tour status" so that the people
from our county and the surrounding areas can come and see what a real Huey
that had been in combat looked like. They would be able to touch it and sit
in the seats. The same seats that some of their Fathers and Grandfathers
sat in.
regular guys that are fellow members in the Legion with me. We have taken a
ton of money out of our pockets to start working on her. Money that none of
us have but we all feel that it's a worthy cause and we want her to stop
being a piece of junk full of leaves and spider webs and start looking like
the war horse that she was! We'll keep on. We have learned a valuable
lesson though. If someone offers to help just say thank you, smile and
drive on. So far that's all that we can do with those offers. They were
wind in the landscape..............
numbers to some of the places that we have called I'd be glad to share!
Maybe the magic words "movie company" will open up the doors that were not
slammed in our faces but just never opened??
military museum so there are some more doors that we have to knock on so we
are not stuck yet, we'll keep on trying. We're hoping that we can get to
Fort Rucker later on this year. That's where our Huey came from and the guy
that runs the area that supplies things to military museums said to come on
down and he'll see what he can do. There is still hope!
to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you"
From: "Chance Wolf" <bigbadwolf@telus.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 23:47
Subject: Re: [MV] Helicopter Stuff
> year), does anyone have any leads on a (relatively) complete, non-flying
> UH-1H? Yes, it'll work in the film industry here in
Runwayproductionsville,
> Canada - but if I have my way it will also show up at every mil-veh
> collector's event, Airshow, veteran's event and A&W parking-lot Show &
Shine
> possible done up in its original colours as the honourable old warhorse it
> is. www.uh-1.com? They've had nothing for nearly a year. AMARC?
They've
> nothing either. Tucson, AZ aviation-junkyards? Unless you're Sultan
Swami
> BellFleet the Third from Brunei - they won't even reply to your email.
>
> I think we can do Museum-to-Museum transfer/ buy because we have both
Museum
> status and a Controlled Goods Certificate, but again - I've seen nothing
> available for nearly a year - which is in itself endlessly puzzling
because
> the U.S. military was supposed to have all the remaining UH-1(X) family
> things out of the system by May 05, and they can't *all* go to Colombia,
> after all. (Like our Bell 212s. *cough*)
>
> I can deal with damage and missing bits and bent tailbooms and what-not -
> but I have to have something in a relative state of togetherness to begin
> with. We've been offered a few things which look like balled-up bits of
> cigarette-paper with the odd splotch of zinc chromate for local colour,
but
> since I like my puzzles with more than 2% of the pieces present I've just
> kept looking.
>
> Any help/pointers/wild-goose-chases appreciated in advance. I know a
couple
> of members of this list have tackled the Huey-thing successfully in the
past
> so I know the resources are out there to draw upon if the will is there.
>
> Cheers.