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Subject:Re: Heli stories NVC
From:Al Knoll
Date:Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:45:18 -0800

HELO, Hi exit, Low opening.  Used to describe airborne parachute maneuvers.

HELI---shorthand for HELICOPTER.

In Alaska in the sixties, I watched a high wind abort which dropped a 155mm
Howitzer ~1000 feet into muskeg.

This was a Sikorsky "Sky Hook" Helicopter caught in an oscillation from wind
gusting.

pensioner (whose E-Ticket ride was front seat in the AH-1 "cobra")

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