Comments on: The Black Helicopters are real http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/ A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months... Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:08:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: wally http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/comment-page-1/#comment-10418 wally Sun, 05 Dec 2004 09:17:20 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philgtest/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/#comment-10418 <a></a> Blackhawks rock. If you think they're enormous, check out a CH-53 (Navy/Marine) up close. Once asked a Marine 53 pilot what it was like to fly one, to which he responded: "It's like sitting on your toilet, and flying your house". But the coolest helo (or aircraft, for that matter) is the commercial version of the 53, with all, and I mean all, extraneous weight stripped off, the Sikorsky Sky-Crane: http://www.pro-photography.net/gallery/sikorsky

Blackhawks rock. If you think they’re
enormous, check out a CH-53 (Navy/Marine)
up close.

Once asked a Marine 53 pilot what it was like
to fly one, to which he responded:
“It’s like sitting on your toilet, and
flying your house”.

But the coolest helo (or aircraft, for
that matter) is the commercial version of
the 53, with all, and I mean all, extraneous
weight stripped off, the Sikorsky Sky-Crane:

http://www.pro-photography.net/gallery/sikorsky

]]> By: Peter Gottlieb http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 Peter Gottlieb Sun, 05 Dec 2004 04:30:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philgtest/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/#comment-10417 <a></a> They're nicer on the ground. I live under one of their flight paths up the Hudson and wow when half a dozen of them swoop overhead 200 feet over the treetops you feel it in your stomach and everything rattles.

They’re nicer on the ground. I live under one of their flight paths up the Hudson and wow when half a dozen of them swoop overhead 200 feet over the treetops you feel it in your stomach and everything rattles.

]]> By: Pedro Vera http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/comment-page-1/#comment-10416 Pedro Vera Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:49:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philgtest/2004/12/04/the-black-helicopters-are-real/#comment-10416 <a></a> Man, to me they look the same shade of green as any of the Black Hawks stationed in the medevac field across the road from my satellite station back when I was stationed in the US Army in Germany.

Man, to me they look the same shade of green as any of the Black Hawks stationed in the medevac field across the road from my satellite station back when I was stationed in the US Army in Germany.

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