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09-24-2007, 12:03 AM
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| Video Extraordinaire  Join Date: Apr 2005
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| CH-46 in fire Sunny
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09-24-2007, 12:12 AM
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| aka Dickcheese   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Wowwie. Good one Sunny.
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09-24-2007, 02:08 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Damn!
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09-24-2007, 02:19 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Great find!!!!
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09-24-2007, 07:44 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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  | Nice find.
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09-24-2007, 09:14 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Yikes!
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09-25-2007, 10:17 AM
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| Older Than Dirt  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| WOW.... wonder what ship ? Charles
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09-25-2007, 11:57 PM
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| Video Extraordinaire Join Date: Apr 2005
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| I have found this: This happened in Sept of 1998 aboard the "Bonhomer Richard", pronounced with a french dialect. My squadron was HMM-164 and I was a CH-46 Helo Mech. We were supporting Operation Urban Warrior off the Monterey coast in California. This bird was taking media crews back and forth from land to the carrier all day and at this moment they were leaving to go back to shore. I was in the chow hall aboard the Bonhomer "Dick" when this happened. CH-46 crewchief Sgt. Beyers received smoke inhalation while saving these people and was treated at the scene. For his actions "under fire", no pun intended, he received a Certificate of comendation and a "NAM". After investigating, it was found that a pinhole in one of the aft transmission lines was atomizing(spraying) fluid and the spray was being sucked into the aft generator and this caused the fire. Transmission fluid is not flammable in large quantities but when atomized it is very flammable. The aft portion of this bird was completely destroyed and had to be removed and replaced. After 9 months of rebuilding this bird was put back into the fleet and renumbered. Before the fire it was #07 and after we got it back it was #15. Sunny
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09-26-2007, 04:17 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Zealand
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| Nice video Sunny
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09-26-2007, 09:10 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas
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| Good God, that's terrifying. I can only imagine how scary it is when you're 200 feet up and you've just been hit.
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09-26-2007, 09:30 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Scary. Dangerous business  TO
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