Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
I was never in country, but was in the Navy from '68 to '72 at the pilot training base in Corpus Christi working on radial recip engines. There was a big civilian ARADMAC operaton on post where they rebuilt Huey's and Cobras, and things became more focused for me in '71 when I saw a Huey go by on a truck, just the burned out shell, and a 'What? Me Worry' Wiley Coyote nose art. I had seen that Huey in a magazine a just few months earlier with the crew posing beside their plane.
The UH-1D ( I think it was a "D") used to fold up like a book when hit in the boom with a RPG,...... Some of those egg beaters would burn down to nothing the fire was so hot,.. I was told they had magnesium air frames ?