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I spent a fair number of hours flying in one of those going to and from Oil & Gas production platforms. In the early 1980"s we still had a number of Vietnam vets flying those things. You could always tell he was a vet by the way he would takeoff from the platform. Younger pilots would hover a couple feet off the deck then using as much deck space possible to accelerate. Not the old Army vets. They would climb a couple feet the fly off the deck then fly off the edge of the platform, and drop like a rock until getting enough speed to climb out and fly off into the sun set.
I spent a fair number of hours flying in one of those going to and from Oil & Gas production platforms. In the early 1980"s we still had a number of Vietnam vets flying those things. You could always tell he was a vet by the way he would takeoff from the platform. Younger pilots would hover a couple feet off the deck then using as much deck space possible to accelerate. Not the old Army vets. They would climb a couple feet the fly off the deck then fly off the edge of the platform, and drop like a rock until getting enough speed to climb out and fly off into the sun set.
I was at the FBO in Midland, TX when two pilots walked in wearing flightsuits. One was a Marine the other Navy. They had flown in from Fallon and had two F-5s parked on the ramp. One was painted in these colors.
I read today a French court ordered the liquidation of Robin aircraft. General aviation loses another iconic manufacturer.
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