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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyn Latham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting Experience
> Hi, Guys!
>
> I'm back. This is Lyn Latham. I had to go for a while, I asked Phil to
> add
> me back again. Wow! What an experience with the hellicopters! That
> almost
> gave me a fear of terrist activity but you are probably right. When I
> used
> to live near the base in South Tampa, I used to hear things like that all
> the time. At first it scared me, now I am quite used to almost anything
> but
> what you were talking about. Hey, anybody in Florida, mostly in the Tampa
> area? On November 25, 2006 at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. I have the first book
> signing of the book I had published. Yes, it's out and for sale. You can
> get an E. book at the web site listed in the signature of this email. Yo
> ucan go to the link I will provide in case Phil doesn't get to add it to
> the
> email. It is available at:
> www.authourhouse.com
> Click on the link that says book store and then you can go to the edit
> field
> and put in authour's name, Lyn Latham. The book will come up. You can
> get
> an E. book for 3:95 and they will download a text version for you at my
> request. If not, then you can get a regular printed book for 10 dollars.
> I
> hope some will buy the book. Eberyone likes it thus far, and it makes a
> great Christmas gift. Thanks for having me back again.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Struve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Interesting Experience
>
>
> > Phil, what an experience. I sure have an appreciation
> > of pilots after reading this account. It's sure hard
> > to tell what was going on. The landing part of the
> > whole story really is quite puzzling. I'm sure you
> > would've woken up if the helicopter landed that close
> > to your house. Very very interesting. Thanks for
> > sharing.
> > Todd
> > --- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Last Sunday morning, about 8:30 in the morning,
> >> something
> >> quite unusual occurred near our home here in Denver.
> >> I had been
> >> out in my office for some time thinking about what I
> >> would be
> >> teaching on in church that day when I fell asleep
> >> for awhile in my
> >> rocking chair. Suddenly, I heard something loud
> >> that awakened me.
> >> At first, I thought it was my son starting his
> >> pickup truck which
> >> is behind our home in front of his garage. It
> >> didn't sound right
> >> so I thought maybe he was using some of his power
> >> tools in the
> >> garage. Still, it sounded totally different. As I
> >> listened,
> >> trying to locate the sound and trying to decide what
> >> it was, it
> >> began getting louder. It sounded like it was
> >> generally southeast
> >> of our home, I finally decided, but as I sat there
> >> listening, this
> >> thing got louder, and louder, and louder. I was
> >> starting to get
> >> out of my chair to walk to the other end of my
> >> office where I
> >> could open a door and step around the side of my
> >> office into my
> >> son's driveway when the noise exploded into a
> >> horrific mechanical
> >> cacophony. I honestly thought that whatever it was,
> >> might be
> >> going to literally crash into the back of our house.
> >> Suddenly, I
> >> heard the fast turning rotor blades of a helicopter
> >> and it was
> >> close, I mean, very close. I heard it lift off and
> >> immediately
> >> it choppered straight south and very very low. I
> >> figured it was
> >> a hospital helicopter but most of them head north to
> >> hospitals on
> >> the north side of town. One hospital, in fact,
> >> isn't very far
> >> north of our home, and we hear the helicopters
> >> passing by all the
> >> time. I thought it had probably landed in the
> >> intersection just a
> >> short block to the southwest of our home and picking
> >> up someone
> >> that needed an emergency air lift to a local
> >> hospital. If so, I
> >> wondered, why is it not gaining altitude but instead
> >> flying
> >> straight south and very low. In fact, all sound
> >> from the machine
> >> was gone in 10 seconds or less. Later, I learned
> >> more.
> >>
> >> My son jumped out of bed and ran to the window
> >> but never even
> >> saw them. He knew they were helicopters, of course,
> >> just from
> >> the incredibly loud noise they made. We learned
> >> later that they
> >> were two Army helicopters that had lifted off and
> >> turned and
> >> headed south. My son's cousin told him at work the
> >> next day that
> >> he was riding his motorcycle and had just stopped
> >> for a red
> >> traffic light at a nearby intersection when he saw
> >> the two Army
> >> choppers lift off and head south. He said they
> >> passed right over
> >> the top of him and were so low, he could have
> >> literally thrown a
> >> rock and hit one as it passed. He also counted the
> >> number of
> >> battle gear dressed men aboard each craft. The two
> >> Army choppers
> >> had rockets lung underneath them, the soldiers were
> >> armed, and
> >> their were gunners at each of the M60 machine gun
> >> stations. I
> >> have absolutely no idea what was going on. I told
> >> my son, we
> >> could start calling all around but they would just
> >> deny anything
> >> had happened. I am guessing they were on a training
> >> mission and
> >> one chopper had to auto rotate due to engine failure
> >> or problems.
> >> That means it would have landed very quietly because
> >> the engine is
> >> not running and the pilot has to glide the craft
> >> toward the ground
> >> very quickly just using what speed is left in the
> >> rotating blades.
> >> It is a dangerous maneuver and you don't get a
> >> second chance of
> >> landing because you have no power. the second
> >> chopper may have
> >> come and landed to bring repair parts for the first.
> >> The problem
> >> with this theory is I never heard them land. Yes, I
> >> may have
> >> been asleep, unless, of course, they landed earlier
> >> at night. I
> >> sleep pretty lightly and I find it difficult to
> >> believe I
> >> wouldn't have heard them land even during the night
> >> as close to
> >> the house as they were. There is a public city park
> >> two or three
> >> blocks east of us so they could have landed in the
> >> park. Military
> >> helicopters, unless they are on a specific assign
> >> mission, never
> >> carry rockets, though. These did. I'm wondering if
> >> they didn't
> >> get some type of threatening report and landed in
> >> the park near
> >> our home. Helicopters, in case you have never heard
> >> one, are
> >> unbelievably loud when near by and low. A few years
> >> ago, the
> >> police found a man down across the street about 10
> >> o'clock at
> >> night in the parking lot of the large church
> >> straight across the
> >> street from our home. They called in Flight For
> >> Life and a
> >> helicopter flew in. They first make a wide circle
> >> around the
> >> landing zone area with all their powerful downward
> >> halogen lights
> >> on. This first circuitous rotation around the LZ is
> >> probably done
> >> at least at a thousand feet above the area so the
> >> chopper doesn't
> >> accidentally run into any high strung wires. then
> >> they repeat the
> >> process a couple of more time but dropping lower
> >> each time. Once
> >> they are certain they have enough room to land, they
> >> sit down and
> >> in this case, in the middle of the church parking
> >> lot. When I
> >> first heard this chopper from the hospital years
> >> ago, I thought it
> >> was loud when it made the first pass. When it
> >> dropped lower and
> >> made the second pass, It did not even sound like a
> >> helicopter.
> >> It made a very super loud metallic engine sound, of
> >> course, but it
> >> also made a strange hissing sound that sounded like
> >> the biggest
> >> snake you ever did hear in your life. I am assuming
> >> that is the
> >> tremendous force of the downward wash the spinning
> >> props make. I
> >> have heard reports, that when choppers try and pick
> >> someone up at
> >> sea and they are not amphibious helicopters, that
> >> is, choppers
> >> which can land on the ground or water, the water
> >> spray created
> >> from the tremendous down wash the rotors make,
> >> stings as if it
> >> were a sharp needle spray shower nozzle as they drop
> >> the lift
> >> basket down to the person stranded in the water.
> >> When the chopper
> >> landed in the church parking lot, probably less than
> >> 300 feet from
> >> my front door, you cannot imagine the noise. I had
> >> no idea, in
> >> spite of all the helicopters I have heard flying
> >> around our
> >> neighborhood, that they were that loud.
> >>
> >> Sunday, although these two Army choppers were
> >> loud, they
> >> turned so quickly and headed south, you couldn't get
> >> the full
> >> effect of the sound as they were moving faster than
> >> you would
> >> think at such a low level. I doubt, from what our
> >> cousin
> >> describe, they were more than 300 feet, if that
> >> much, above the
> >> street where he was sitting on his motorcycle. I
> >> still cannot
> >> figure out why, although we all were asleep, none of
> >> us heard them
> >> land. Unless, of course, they auto rotated instead
> >> of landed
> >>
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