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Most impressive pictures of a stunning landscape. Also great to read some of your background story. Thank you for sharing!

That is awesome Bish! Man, I'd love to hear more. I can't get enough of this.

Sorry for the late replay Bish - I've been up in Northumberland.

Very interesting job to do - I've seen several practices of slinging and unslinging loads on Chinooks at the airfield I used to work on, for some reason they liked to use it for training with (I assume) the local TA mob. Great photos, love the one with the Penguins. I'm really surprised to see that rifle just sitting there out on the mountain, I would have thought that sort of stuff was cleared away years ago.

I was surprised to see it, but i huess not many people go up there. There are a few bits laying around out there. Just to the North of the ridge is an Argentin mortar position in a landscape that looks like the moon there are that many crators.

It was a great job to do, next to driving a warrior, it was the best time i had. Being stood arms length under a chinook with it hovering above you is somthing else. Thopugh not quite as bas as a US Marine Sea Stallion, the down wash off that was unbelivable.

I never wanted to be under the CH-37's, always worried about those R-2800's at max power giving up the ghost at the wrong time. But at least when you were under it the stones that got picked up and thrown were all going away from you.

Bish wrote:...Though not quite as bas as a US Marine Sea Stallion, the down wash off that was unbelivable...

I can imagine, what an awesome aircraft!

jeaton01 wrote:I never wanted to be under the CH-37's, always worried about those R-2800's at max power giving up the ghost at the wrong time. But at least when you were under it the stones that got picked up and thrown were all going away from you.

Yeah, those early helo's were a bit marginal, especially the piston jobs.

jeaton01 wrote:I never wanted to be under the CH-37's, always worried about those R-2800's at max power giving up the ghost at the wrong time. But at least when you were under it the stones that got picked up and thrown were all going away from you.

Ye, thats the one good thing about being under the helo, its just haveing to take the hit as it was coming in. I once got hit by a wooden pallett that someone had left close to the LHS and a Chinook blow if off as it was coming it and on another occasion i got blown over by a Hook as we were backing out and broke my wrist. You need to keep your wits about you.