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mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
if you mean you now think i love all things american, you can sleep in comfort tonight safe in the knowledge i don'ti just think that being the best friend of the world's biggest power's a damn good idea!
Lanc - that's been a strong ethos of UK foreign policy for decades!
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Lanc insulted me Hunter. My superpower ego is bruised. And I was going to save him from the hypthetical baddies too. 
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So you are an equal opportunity whore which sleeps with whoever holds the biggest gun? You better start learning Chinese.
Strikes me it's generally the other way round. Look at Grenada, for example.
mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
I think you have a valid point with that too, Ndicki.
To quote Foreign Sec Ernest Bevin - "We find ourselves at times irked at the role of jr partner... nevertheless... the partnership is worth the price." - said of UK's special relationship with the US going back to the days that the Cold War was setting in.
Of course there are deviations from this - take Suez as well. I think by and large the US and Britain do have a very close bond...
Britain was also one of the few European powers that did not seek independence from the West or Americanism throughout the Cold War - which is still evident today - a policy that France, Germany, and Italy attempted - also a major impetus for the EEC (which UK did not seek admission to until later). Major British contributions to Korea are another example - even though at that time Britain had to spend more per capita on defense than even the US was spending.
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Nonskimmer
Captain
The original Cracker Jack!
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
how cute joe
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Nice FBJ. Those were the times.
FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
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Damn with that many rags, I would think you were working on a Chinook or my beloved Blackhawk!
mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
You know what they say - if it ain't leaking you can't trust it!
I just checked into the base today down at NAS corpus - I didn't know that there was an Army Depot side of the base - it's a major repair facility for helos. It was pretty impressive watching them balance rotor blades in this beast...
I just checked into the base today down at NAS corpus - I didn't know that there was an Army Depot side of the base - it's a major repair facility for helos. It was pretty impressive watching them balance rotor blades in this beast...
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Matt308
Glock Perfection
Cool mkloby! Do they spin them in that contraption? Is that what the fencing is for? To prevent injury/damage from catastrophic failures? Is the tower on the opposite side a crane to hoist the blades?
I would not have guessed that such a facility would be necessary for maintenance.
I would not have guessed that such a facility would be necessary for maintenance.
mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
Yeah - pretty damn cool I thought.
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Thats the way it goes for the Chinook deffinatly.
mkloby said:
Yeap that is where my old aircraft is right now. She was struck by lighting and has never been the same since. She is in Corpus right now getting completely rebuilt from the wiring on up so that she might be a good aircraft again.
Hmm I prefer the old fashion way of track and ballancing blades. Hook a AVA kit with camaras and exelerometers (spelling probably way off) and do it on the aircaft. Can be very annoying though when it does not want to balance.
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Even though when I say old fashioned way the Huey guys would laugh at me. They used a broom stick with a grease pencil on it.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
I would have thought that it would have been something more along your lines Adler. Something more field expedient to balance blades. Any blade that needed mkloby facility was either a new design analysis or they just threw them away.
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No that is also a way to balance blades. When blades have been sent in from units to get rebuilt they dont have a helicopter to put a basic balance on them. They put the blade on this machine and balance it based off what there repaires where. They then paint the information on the blade and then when a unit recieves the blade they have all the track and balance info and that allows the mechanic and the crew chief to have an idea of where to start when installing this "new" blade on the aircraft. It makes life more simple in the field really.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Thanks, Adler.
