Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Very interesting story FBJ. Thanks for posting.
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Was the Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk the first helicopter capable of performing aerobatics?
Sikorsky S-67 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interesting story. I also heard that MI-24 HIND managed to shoot down a F-4 with its gun. True or false?
This Sikorsky S-67 looked cool.
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This is the link to the article about the Iraq/Iran war where there is a claim that the Iraqi Mi-24 shot down an Iranian F-4.
Hope the link works
I got a chance a couple of years ago to sit at the controls of an An-2 and actually fly it around for half an hour. For $45!
I met the crew at the Nova Scotia International Air Show, where they had it on static display. They use it as a sky-diving plane, and will take up passengers during their sky-diving flights.
On the day I went for my hop, the pilot told me that after the last jump of the day, they were going to another airport for maintenance work. So we arranged for one of the owners to drive my car to the other field, and I got an extra-long flight. It was a unique and wonderful experience
JL
PS: The company is West River Sky Sports, in case anyone gets to Nova Scotia and wants a flight in the world's biggest biplane.
For further sources, in the February 2009 issue of Flight Journal Barrett Tillman has an article titled 'An Unlikely Shootdown - Duel at Lima Site 85'. He also cites a book by Timothy Castle titled "One Day Tool Long - The Story of Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam" published by Columbia University Press.
According to the article, the Huey pilot was Theodore H. Moore, an Army gunship pilot, and the crew chief was Glenn R. Wood. Moore survived the war and Wood was KIA in a helo crash 18 months later.
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat - Google Book Search
This is the link to the article about the Iraq/Iran war where there is a claim that the Iraqi Mi-24 shot down an Iranian F-4.
Hope the link works