Thats why i like my lifted truck, no need for jacks or stands all i have to worry about is burning myself with hot oil.
Technically, a statement is hearsay only if it's offered to prove that it's true. Since you're offering the statement in everyone's shared hope of dissuading someone else from doing something similarly stupid and tragic, it's therefore not hearsay at all. Objection overruled.quote:
Originally posted by obbop:
(...snip...)When the guy broke the seal on the head the compression was released and the truck rolled. He wasn't fast enough and was run over, killing him.
Wasn't there to see it in person so I suppose this is heresay testimony.
Shoot Terry, I'd have just ejected. NATOPS says if you're below 10k feet and under 250 kts, just pull the handle and be done with it. Oh wait, that's right, an OH-58. . .quote:
Originally posted by Terry:
Engine failure in a single engine turbine OH-58A ( junk) at high speed ( 120 kts) below tree overhang along dirt road(about 3 feet off the ground) flying "convoy cover". Was a CW2 and young butter bar with me about pooped his pants as I exchanged airspeed for rotor RPM in the autorotation and climbed JUST enough to get back up over tree line and BARELY land the POS Bell Helo in an onion field. Tail rotor saw the trees but touchdown was just like I was taught. Slid about 3 feet on skids. Helo was repaired and flown out( by maintenance test pilot) after pneumatic line was replaced.
G-o-d didn't want us to leave yet..
Odd, isn't it, how by the end of WW-I, the engineers had perfected systems for synchronizing machine gun fire through a prop arc, but 90 years later, a shot up Apache driver is still stuck in his steed, for better or worse. . . I always found that having an e-seat under me made the few close shaves I had feel a lot less like close shaves in the first place.quote:
Originally posted by Terry:
(...snip...)ekpolk, Ejection seats in Helos are included in the autorotation package, you ride your work... success or not to the ground!