From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 09:12:18 PST
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From: "JEFF HAIN-MATSON" <flmv@flmv.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
> Yup, at a T53 engine overhaul shop no less!!!!
> Also the home of the first solely, privately owned bell 209 (cobra). I
don't
> know if Ron still has one or not, but back in the 90's he was the first
> civilian to build one!!
They were trying to get the HueyCobras certified for Helicopter logging and
what-not, from what I remember, and there's even pics of the AH-1 in full
military paint lifting chunks of timber for a living. It still has that
look about it...sort of like an ex-Green Beret resignedly pursuing a career
packing groceries in the checkout aisle.
("Piss off kid! Guy's gotta eat....")
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