I feel/felt your pain! :)
Demolished/bent more than one tail rotor guard *trying* to learn to hoover a Bell Ranger back in the day. Trying was about as good as it got ... for me, a 50 acre rice paddy, or larger, was also mandatory. :)
Paint stick back scratcher
Jan 02, 2010
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Where did you find the rice paddy?
Fortunately, there was no dearth of rice paddies in SE Asia in the late
1960's, or Bell Rangers with intact tail rotors for that matter. :)Being one of them there FO's, and routinely calling in artillery from both fixed and rotary winged aircraft, as well as on the ground; and since, as always, landing is never optional, it was considered a practical, if not official, expedient to have at least some idea how to effect same if, Buddha forbid, the necessity arose.
.... if you know what I mean. :)
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