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Written by our own Canuck180.

That was a scary story with a reasonably happy ending. I didn't know the Hueys had that much lifting capacity. Thanks for sharing. I'll stick to wheels. They challenge me enough!

Good story with a reasonably happy ending. Could have turned out a lot worse, glad it didn't. Thanks for sharing!

Flyhound wrote:I didn't know the Hueys had that much lifting capacity.

Count yourself fortunate if you didn't have reason to know that! As a matter of fact, they'll pick up a big-engine '76 J model on floats pretty handily also.
-DP

Great read, thanks for writing! Glad to hear that y'all made it out okay. Sounds like the Egress training came in handy, definitely seems like a useful course!

Good job.

The Army wanted its Utility Helicopter, UH, models to be able to lift a a stripped down same model.

Of course the Cargo Helicopter, CH, models could haul much more than another of their own weight.