Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I think Dennis Herret is third from the right, front row.
"Dennis did my QHI upgrade from B2 to B1 in 1984 and told me the cautionary tale of how he once, as a B2 himself, during his student’s EOL in a Whirlwind 10 at around 300 feet agl, tried to place his hand on the collective to check where the student had it. He couldn’t find it so looked down and to his horror saw that it was at almost the fully up stop. Too late to recover, they piled in with very little rotor rpm.
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That’ll be September 66. I was learning my Sioux checks in a briefing room in the Sunshine Hangar, glanced out of the window and watched that “landing”. It was a Wednesday; another Whirlwind went down in a corn field the next Wednesday. Being new to the rotary world, we assumed these regular events had to be part of the syllabus. I think Dennis’ student was later to become the first Mr Chinook.