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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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