I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did and IвЂ™m already hoping that John Brennan will bring out a second volume of long forgotten photos depicting the colourful side of green. These pictures would remain unseen and probably forgotten about had it not been for people like John Brennan who have managed to compile them into lovely books like this. We all know the ugly politics of the Vietnam War but these pictures show us the human side of it.ДЇor the record, the official and unofficial wartime markings that were painted on Army helicopters from 1962 to 1973 have never been fully documented or made available to the public in published form by the American government. A good look at the classic utility version leads us to chapter 7 and the UH-1 Gunships.ДЄgainst a backdrop of censorship, political correctness and military directives to the contrary, in-country Army helicopter nose art flourished in Vietnam and the failure to acknowledge this archetypal convention in any study of Army aviation history demonstrates the lack of respect for the personal cost of conflict.ДЄlthough вЂњIron ButterflyвЂќ might not be as well known as вЂњMemphis BelleвЂќ or вЂњEnola GayвЂќ from World War II, it nonetheless carried its crews into battle with just as much passion for life and sense of duty as its predecessors. We see the OH-6A Cayuse and OH-23 Raven observation helicopters before delving into air ambulance, command and control, maintenance and smoke versions of the UH-1 Iroquois, more affectionately known as the Huey. The book starts with the AH-1 Cobra and continues with the CH-47 Chinook. We learn the aforementioned вЂњThe Magical Mystery TourвЂќ survived Vietnam from October 1970 to January 1973 compiling 1,603 flight hours and surviving in D Company from October 1970 to July 1972. вЂњ174 has a spirit, and we call it the spirit of 174 - if we can convince people who have feelings about this to talk about it and seek help then 174 will continue its mission,вЂќ Adams said.Most of the captions give a brief history of each helicopter. Lives may have been lost, but the spirit of Huey helicopter #174 lives on. So this is a healing a project for all PTSD of all wars,вЂќ he said. вЂњIвЂ™m one of the guys that was virtually ready to commit suicide when I started this and going to the VA didnвЂ™t helpвЂ¦this healed me. Take Me Home Huey has already sparked a conversation for veterans nationwide, including Karl Renz who did three tours in Vietnam before volunteering his time to help out with the project. It's a gateway for veterans to let them know they are home and they can start letting go and that's what it did for me,вЂќ Tutrani said. SA342 Gazelle, and UH-1H Huey after buying additional DCS modules. The fact that it's helping veterans out in the field, pulling them on board but maybe even the ones we didn't pull on board. chinook helicopter x plane 11 Armys Future Long Range Assault Aircraft competition. The Huey HH-1K was the CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) variant based on Marines UH-1E but with special Navy avionics 1-85. 'Seeing the aircraft for the first time just overwhelmed me, just being able to touch it.in addition to being a symbol of hope, it has another medevac mission which is ironic in and of itself. Tutrani said Take Me Home Huey has had a profound effect on him. вЂњWe got to see a lot of horrible things but that never really bothered me but it was to see these men scared, tired, frightened - and sometimes they would just grab onto you and you could see the gratitude in their eyes that they were being evacuated.you just never forget that,вЂќ Tutrani said. 'That's something that I live with every dayвЂ¦and still to this day and I recall calling out to Gary and Steve and they weren't responding and I crawled over to other side and you just imagine what that was likeвЂ¦and I crawled back over,вЂќ Tutrani said.ДЄlthough time has passed, the memories from war havenвЂ™t faded. Frankly, to be honest with you, that's what's going through my mind the moment we were told we were trailing smoke,вЂќ recalled Tutrani, who was shot in the hand.ДЄdams added: вЂњI'm 78 years old and there's not a day that goes by that I haven't thought about the people we lost and always blame myself.'ДЄdams said the crew chief Gary Dubach and medic Stephen Schumacher were tossed out of the helicopter and killed by the rotor blades. They were taking fire in the fuel cells and the aircraft exploded - we lost the crew of five and seven patients. 'I could smell a JP4, which was the helicopter fuel, and I could see smoke coming out from the back.eight weeks before that we lost an entire crew and several patients.

Huey helicopter art