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Old 25th Oct 2020, 14:27
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Flying Bull says that not everything that can be done should be done. And that is true. If we look at Google Maps, there would seem to be other sites in that town that the crew could have chosen. But for whatever reason they chose that one. Meh. Google map images are hardly current, nor do they show slope and other factors that would need to be considered, so I'll defer to the judgment of the guys who had to do it. They were there; I wasn't. Risky? Yeah. Everything helicopters do is risky. I'll give them this though: They accomplished that little task of putting that Huey on the trailer with little fanfare or farting around. Guy came in, dropped the chokers and then landed on that trailer faster than I've seen guys come into an airport and land on the grass. I'll bet you they were gone not long after the blades stopped. Say what you want, but it looked like a pretty professional outfit to me.
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