Subject: Thoughts to Ponder
1. Why did they call it Collective Pitch?
I never collected any. Usually ran out of it about the same time as altitude and airspeed.
2. Why didn't Bell add more left pedal and aft cyclic? I always had lots of right pedal and forward cyclic. It seems likethey could have reduced those and added to the ones we needed.
3. Why did they put the only radio (KY-28) that had to be recovered if you went down in the most inaccessible part of the aircraft?
4. Why did the pilots have armored seats but the Chief and Gunner didn't?
5. Why did situations that called for all the torque the engine could produce also require full use of the anti-torque pedal? (Seems contradictory)
6. Why did they call them Hammer-Head stalls?
(Maybe because only a hammer head would try one in a helicopter)
7. Why did I always get an aircraft with a major 1 to 1 when I had a hangover?
8. Why didn't Bell make the skin out of duct tape so it would match the patches?
9. Why did they make a main rotor system that could cut down small Sequoia trees, and a tail rotor system that self-destructed if it
encountered anything bigger than a bumblebee?
10. Why were they called landing skids?
Were they intended for landing or skidding?
11. Why did the amount of time I had to spend in an LZ increase exponentially with the amount of fire I was receiving?
12. Why didn't 33 beer taste any better cold than it did hot?
13. Why did the smoke from the barrels always blow towards my hooch?
14. Why was the PX always out of everything on my day off?