Burning wires...

[Flying Pig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_-Kylm2aRU

Fun end to a fun day.  Not quite as epic as the reporter makes it out to be.  But in the end, you never know when your day is coming. 

[Spam]

That's a sexy old bird, y'all better treat her right, now. In flight fires are no way to get even more PR.

I had to back it up twice, first time because it looked like you put a Vietnam service ribbon on her (most excellent, and in good taste; any service history on where your units flew)?

Second time to back it up was on the cockpit shots. Was the wiring issue related to the center pedestal mods you mentioned in your earlier post, with the control heads shown?

V/R,
Spam

(PS, now back to our regularly scheduled nine hundred comments on NCO/officer relationships, sorry to interrupt with interest in actual aviation)

[bosshawk]

Rob: been there, done that, have the T-shirt.  Had a wiring bundle start smoking while over San Francisco Bay.  Landed at San Carlos and had a meet and greet with the fire crew.  New wires and ready to go.

[Flying Pig]

That's a sexy old bird, y'all better treat her right, now. In flight fires are no way to get even more PR.

I had to back it up twice, first time because it looked like you put a Vietnam service ribbon on her (most excellent, and in good taste; any service history on where your units flew)?

Second time to back it up was on the cockpit shots. Was the wiring issue related to the center pedestal mods you mentioned in your earlier post, with the control heads shown?

V/R,
Spam

(PS, now back to our regularly scheduled nine hundred comments on NCO/officer relationships, sorry to interrupt with interest in actual aviation)

We have it in the records somewhere about which units it was with.  It was shot down once and then sent back to the US and rebuilt. Then spent it's career in various stateside units.  We have had it close to 20yrs.  I guess she rates a purple heart also? 
There were no cockpit mods done in the huey.   Those were in the 58. 

[Garibaldi]

This is kinda related...

My first unit CC had a Jeep, which he continually tricked out (We called it Bradford Engineering, as the man in question was an engineer at Georgia Tech) with things like a landing light, helicopter control stick on the shifter, and various other electronic doodads and geegaws. You had to be very careful entering and leaving the vehicle (this was the 80s, before corporate vehicles took over), because of all the loose wiring. In fact, a short in one of the wires caused a fire and a hasty egress during transport to one event or another, and another SM calmly retrieved a fire extinguisher from another vehicle and put the fire out.

It's a wonder that we survived our cadet days at times...