Well...I can face the truth....the UH-1H I fly for the museum is now being called "Gramp's aircraft".....the insult was when I was offered a hand up into the thing.....young whipper snappers got no respect! At the bar....instead of a good single malt...the young pups are sending around Prune juice and vodka....calling them pile drivers and suggesting they would help keep me moving. No respect I tell you....flew in a 1936 vintage bi-plane yesterday....was asked if I remembered when they came into production....come to think of it....gosh, I wish I could remember what that was about? But after all....I do recall flying an airway segment stepping on the A's and N's.....and doing an ADF approach using the handcrank to find the null....now that was real helicopter flying! I bet some of the guys here remember fabric covered rotor blades too! 37 years of helicopter flying and just getting started !
