Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane water bombers:

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5 comments:

w3ski said...

Having worked in the Humboldt Redwoods for many years, I have seen every imaginable way to get trees out of the hills.
Always had a big Wow tho when those "Skycranes" would hitch up and pull out huge trees.
w3ski

1/13/2019 11:06 AM
Ten Bears said...

I have hooked logs to that skycrane. Power-poles, chair-lifts, air conditioners.

There is nothing: not sex, not cocaine, LSD or sex cocaine and LSD that compares.

1/13/2019 12:35 PM
re the paragon said...

Erickson was taken over by a private equity firm and driven into bankruptcy. The magic of the market!

1/13/2019 1:55 PM
Deadstick said...

I was in the stands at Reno once when a Skycrane did a water-dump demo down the runway in front of us. It's about 1000 feet from the stands, the wind was in our faces, and we had a hard rain.

1/13/2019 8:42 PM
dinthebeast said...

I watched them pull an unstable tree off of a cliff above a road above the Klamath river once, but I think the helicopter was slightly smaller than a sky crane.
I sort of couldn't believe it would hold it up, but it did.

-Doug in Oakland

1/14/2019 1:13 AM

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