[Vhfcn-l] Comment from today's pilots

[Ralph Stilwell]

I enjoyed your TINS, John, thanks for sharing!
Ralph

On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 3:50 PM Roger W. Ek via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
wrote:

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>
> > On Jan 13, 2019, at 2:09 PM, John W. Hart via Vhfcn-l <vhfcn-l at vhfcn.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > After tactics, we transitioned to the UH-1 for 10 hours, mostly UH-1A
> models.
>
> When I went to Rucker for gun ship training, I had a few transition
> flights in the UH-1A. I had flown the UH-2C in the Navy which had TWO
> GE-T58-8C engines of 1,450 HP EACH. That’s 2,900 horsepower on a twist
> grip. The UH-1A had 1/4 of that horsepower and was somewhat of a dog to say
> the least. Good thing it was February and a little cooler in Alabama.
>
> In the UH-2C, from a hover you could just dump the nose 45 degrees, haul
> on the collective and transition to 165 knots ricky tick. When I got to
> Fort Rucker, I had never flown a square pattern. The Navy flies round
> patterns and just straightens out to hit the center line on a carrier. Mr.
> Smith was offended when I asked why the Army did that.
>
> The UH-46 (racing hook) has pretty much the same engines as the H-2C. The
> USMC called the H-46 the Phrog.
>
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