[MRCA] CH-54

[MICHAEL ALUZZO]

Indian town Gap still had a dozen or so of them on the flight line about 15-20 years ago 

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> On Sep 3, 2019, at 1:52 PM, B. Smith <smithab11 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> The Skyhook was a scary machine in Vietnam and there are only a few still  flying today.  The wake turbulence created by the down wash was terrible and resulted in a lot of accidents. It scared me just looking at one.
> Z
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>> On 9/3/2019 1:19 PM, MICHAEL ST ANGELO wrote:
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>> Ray,
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>> 
>> Thanks for the excellent video!
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>> 
>> Mike N2MS
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>> 
>>> On September 2, 2019 at 3:43 PM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I take care of a couple television transmitter sites and one of the companies I do work for is Maryland Public Television and although this is not my site its our flagship station WMPT in Annapolis and on top the tower is a fourteen thousand pound  dual antenna that provided our analog service at one time and our HD service. With the big repack we migrated down to channel twenty one so the entire structure had to be removed and replaced with a spacer and a new channel twenty one antenna. Apparently it was about a third the price to do this by helicopter and it only required less than three hours to swap everything out although another two days was spent doing final connections and lighting.
>>> 
>>> The entire process was video taped and can be interesting to watch. Go to:
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>>> 
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=L-sIuR0rCqU
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>>> 
>>> Just don’t watch if you have an issue with heights!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ray F/KA3EKH
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>>> 
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