Helicopters?

[cardinalNgold]

They flew right over MWL, it was a pretty sweet view

 

[LeSchmick]

They were blackhawk helicopters from Boone. ISU ROTC was taking a tour of some sort and got to ride in them, according to my sources.

 

[A-town Cy]

They flew over my place in campustown 3 different times, I ran out each time to watch them, pretty badass.

 

[Wesley]

Maybe we can have a flyover for a ballgame this fall. Or we could disembark Cy at midfield with the cheerleaders.

 

[cyclonedave25]

Maybe we can have a flyover for a ballgame this fall. Or we could disembark Cy at midfield with the cheerleaders.

Speaking of Flyovers, does anybody have video of the flyover from the game last fall? It was soo loud and sweet! :yes:

 

[cyclonefreak77]

I saw that yesterday and today. Are we in a war i dont know about?

 

[Flag Guy]

My father was a VP at Sikorsky. In the 70's I was at the Bridgeport Ct. hangers with him. He was able to bring me into the hanger with some of the Marine One helicopters but that was as close as I was allowed to them. They were all kept in a separate area with armed guards. I'm sure today the security is much more strict.
That was the same day that I went on the final test run of Jean-Claude Duvalier's (president of Haiti) new helicopter. A Sikorsky S76. Pretty sweet ride out over Long Island sound.

I see some down here from time to time... they still keep them in a seperate part of hangers with armed guards, and thats on a military base

No idea what typical security for them is composed of... but I was in a hanger one was in once, and we were going to go look at something at the other end of the hanger but couldn't at the time because we would have had to go past the bird to get to the room, and as our escort put it, "See that man down there? He has a gun, and if I try to take you past there he will shoot us"

Despite the joking tone of voice I'm pretty sure it wasn't much of a joke

As I understand it you have to have special clearance to touch one of those (Known as Yankee White or whatever)

The new ones they're building... don't need quite so high of a clearance yet. I thought it was odd but as my dad pointed out... the President isn't going to ride in a test vehicle, he will however ride in the current ones (even if they are 30 years old)

Since the president doesn't fly in these yet, they aren't as strict as to who is around them.

Don't get me wrong though... you can't just waltz up to one of these things - they have good security as well

 

[HighOnCy]

I have a buddy who just signed up for rotc at ISU very recently and they took him out on some national guard training stuff yesterday as a "welcome" thing. Maybe ill join for a few days just to get a free ride in a blackhawk!

 

[isufbcurt]

Kind of on/off topic but has anyone ever taken a helicopter lesson from John Mac over in Ankeny? I have been thinking of doing either this or flying lessons for a while...

I didn't take a lesson but me and a gf took one of those holiday helicopter rides he offers. that was pretty cool

 

[Me State]

Kind of on/off topic but has anyone ever taken a helicopter lesson from John Mac over in Ankeny? I have been thinking of doing either this or flying lessons for a while...

It has been a desire of mine for years to learn to fly helicopters. I just can't afford $10,000 for a hobby plus I sure as hell can't afford my own helicopter when I am done. Oh well.