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Offline BrianGMFS

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Mike, You need to get one of these......
« on: April 13, 2007, 01:05:06 AM »
I bet you could have fun with this baby.....  ;D

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0458906/L/

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2007, 01:25:02 AM »
Hahaha, nope he'd never get one, reason: That the thing that created the name "chopper"! (Named after the sound it and the base-Huey made with their twin-bladed rotors)  ::rofl:: It does look cool though  8)

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2007, 01:58:44 AM »
I'm biting my tongue here......

That machine has maybe an hour and a half endurance, TOPS, to go to a fire, which means...  practically nothing of use.    ???

And they spent a ton of dough on it in terms of avionics, electronics and FLIRs, etc....  Let's just say it is a lot more buck$ sitting there than you would ever guess.....

Okay I had better quit!  Or I will be in trouble.    :-X
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2007, 02:08:34 AM »
I'm with "mom" on this one--they are slow too.
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2007, 02:29:24 AM »
Not a "Fling Wing" but probably a bit more practical for lead in work.....

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1131946/L/

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2007, 02:55:46 AM »
The feds had these for a while and they were an incredible maintenance nightmare... they got rid of them...   CDF (sate of Calif.) still uses them...

Dept. of State has them too if you want to get into one..  hear they are mtx hogs there as well though.  OOps, there I go, getting into trouble again...    :-X
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2007, 03:20:18 AM »
Are there no drop tanks for those that they could leave attached?

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2007, 03:24:21 AM »
Hey the Cobra shot was by a friend of mine taken at my home airport ramp at the FBO where I teach part time. How weird is that?   ::thinking:: Didn't see that aircraft, though.

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2007, 03:33:44 AM »
Quote from: TheSoccerMom on April 13, 2007, 01:58:44 AM
I'm biting my tongue here......

That machine has maybe an hour and a half endurance, TOPS, to go to a fire, which means...  practically nothing of use.    ???

And they spent a ton of dough on it in terms of avionics, electronics and FLIRs, etc....  Let's just say it is a lot more buck$ sitting there than you would ever guess.....

Okay I had better quit!  Or I will be in trouble.    :-X
Been watching this take shape for 5 years-----Since I'm not a federal employee, I need not bite my tongue---that thing is just the wet dream of a former ANG Cobra pilot who is a USFS employee.   The concept is impractical, the utility questionable, and the costs are astronomical.    What an incredible waste of taxpayers money!    But that's just my opinion ::complaining:
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2007, 03:39:13 AM »
Thanks Jim, I was trying to figure out how to say wet dream without saying...  wet dream.   ;)   It's quite the money-chest-on-skids.    ::loony::

You're the best!!!!!!    |:)\
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2007, 10:08:35 PM »
I think that it looks cool nonetheless.  When can I fuel it.
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2007, 10:40:11 PM »
I am with mom, G-man, and especially Jim.
As a tax-payer I am pretty pissed off I gotta say.

The DNR in Washington uses them as well and they also use them for buckets I believe. I heard the USFS only uses them as helco and airattack.  ::banghead::
What a waste of money! It's sad.

As a helo pilot . . . OF COURSE I WANNA FLY IT!!!
(I did hear though it flies like a Huey and therefore like a truck)

btw:
Terry, you'd love this one as a fuelguy!! HA HA!!
uses about 100/hr! lots of work for you!!!
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2007, 06:16:19 PM »
Well, the Cobra looks cool, but I gotta admit that the first look I had at it, I thought "What the hell are they gonna do with THAT?!"  The Bronco might be spendy to operate, and a maintenance nightmare, but they're built like a tank.  I recommend to you folks a book called "A lonely kind of war"  Written by Marshall Harrison.
Amazon link:  http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Kind-War-Forward-Controller/dp/0891416382/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8188314-1787057?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176660897&sr=8-1
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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #13 on: April 16, 2007, 12:31:12 AM »

"BRONCO"---HUH ??? I thought we were talking Cobra, or was that a slip of the finger ??? ??? ;D
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Offline Gulfstream Driver

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Re: Mike, You need to get one of these......
« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2007, 01:34:34 AM »
This be a bronco.

Quote from: BrianGMFS on April 13, 2007, 02:29:24 AM
Not a "Fling Wing" but probably a bit more practical for lead in work.....

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1131946/L/

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