Time to give your ages away, Rotorheads!
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Remember M.A.S.H?
Yes as a kid (and that was a long time ago) I remember "Whirlybirds".
Although I never flew the 47, I know it was highly thought of. I was a Hiller 12 man (note flying gear of the day)
TC
Yes as a kid (and that was a long time ago) I remember "Whirlybirds".
Although I never flew the 47, I know it was highly thought of. I was a Hiller 12 man (note flying gear of the day)
TC
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I saw it once or twice, but not regularly. TV reception was poor to non-existent where I lived back then, and we didn't own a set until I was in high school in the early 60s. The Farm Bureau started a co-op which installed UHF translator transmitters, which rebroadcast the local TV stations which were ~100 miles away, and we could finally get reliable signals. Previously, only people who had installed towers reaching 100', with huge antennas, could get any reception at all, and I didn't often get to watch TV. AM radio was it, but there was a plethora of stations, of all genres, although not much talk radio. That abomination came later.
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Whirlybirds, Ripcord, Combat, Red Skelton, The Big Picture, Arthur Godfrey, Amos and Andy, I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, Raw Hide, Ponderosa in Black and White, oh yes, watched them all.
We were the first to have a TV in the neighborhood....one channel in black and white. Wee small screen that was almost round and FUZZY! Then the channel selection jumped to three VHF and two UHF. Of course then we had to have the Antenna Tuner to swing the Antenna about but half the time the Rabbit Ears and Tin Foil worked better.
Of course, half the commercials were about "Duck and Cover" and promoting home fallout shelters!
"Kingfish" teaches Andy to Fly. Humor at its best!
We were the first to have a TV in the neighborhood....one channel in black and white. Wee small screen that was almost round and FUZZY! Then the channel selection jumped to three VHF and two UHF. Of course then we had to have the Antenna Tuner to swing the Antenna about but half the time the Rabbit Ears and Tin Foil worked better.
Of course, half the commercials were about "Duck and Cover" and promoting home fallout shelters!
"Kingfish" teaches Andy to Fly. Humor at its best!
"Just a pilot"
Remember it? Yes!
I have DVDs...
No, I'm not 'Giving my age away"- one only gets to be 65 once and that takes a long time to do. Getting old isn't for quitters.
No, I'm not 'Giving my age away"- one only gets to be 65 once and that takes a long time to do. Getting old isn't for quitters.
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I may have seen it once or twice, on someone else's television. We were so far out in the sticks the signal was almost unviewable, mostly 'snow'. We didn't have a television until the mid '60's, when the Farm Bureau installed a UHF translator system in the county. It took a 100' tower with a 24' long antenna on top of it to get even a marginal signal until then. I made good money climbing those towers and repairing the antennas, though.
