Recent content by Beavith1

I worked with a guy, Floyd Clawson, in the early 1980s that was a Crew Chief on a Loach. The story he told me was that he was the guy who's ONLY job was to be the grunt who cleaned the weapons after the ship was parked. Loved the job. Right up until the soon to be 'former' crew chief was to...

The UH1B and C flew the L11 engine. The H flew the L13. Yep, the M model had the L13, but what set it apart was the rotor system. With the Loach, there was so much inertia built into the rotor system, you could land it with the rotors turning and have enough inertia to get up off the...