Hello and welcome back Lyn,
It is good to have you back on the list!  I am happy to hear your book is 
out.
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Lyn Latham" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:30 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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