Thank you Julie.
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From: "JULIE MELTON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: Interesting Experience


> Welcome back, Lynne, and welcome to Ruth as well.
>
> This is Julie n Colorado.  I don't live far from Phil, Vicki, or Lelia and 
> Todd.
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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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