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Phrogs Phorever
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phrogpilot73
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Which reminds me, I've got to swing by the tech rep's office to get my 45 year sticker...That was SOOO 20 years ago.
03/05/2010
DANGLING DUO
U.S. Marines fast rope from a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter during operations on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex in the Pacific Ocean, Feb. 28, 2010. The Marines are assigned to Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Leo A. Salinas
PASS OVER
A CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (REIN), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) passes over the Laamu Atoll, Maldives Dec. 14, 2007. Marines and sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 11 and Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th MEU (SOC), have been conducting bi-lateral training at Regimental Headquarters Kadhoo with the 20th Special Task Force, Maldivian National Defense Force.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti
Autorotate
FAC, former Phrog pilot
Two of my personal favorites...
Here's a dumb question: do the gear on Phrogs even retract?
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
Love it when you come into an airfield and the tower says "Report three down and locked."
I always respond with "Three down and welded."
I always respond with "Three down and welded."
Told to me by a Phrog pilot: "Yup, been that way since the 70s"
So I was perusing planecrazy and I saw one of my old det patches. USS NASSAU SARDET 02-03 "Phrogs Forever." One of my crew chiefs came up with the idea and I cut and pasted a pair of phrogs from an Approach article (with scissors and glue) and then another crew chief digitized the image. Damn, maybe we should have trademarked the thing so we could be getting a cut from that 9.99 a pop they're charging!
Or if you pay close enough attention to their wording, and hear "check gear down", you simply ignore their lame AF shenanigans...
Well..... Air Force regulations can stand or fall on their own merits and I think the "three down and welded" response is actually pretty funny (I've always chickened out of saying it), but I'm pretty sure I remember in the late 1990s Corpus, Pensacola, and Whiting each having a gear-up incident in the space of 1-2 years, all three occurring at non-Air Force fields, and all three because of pilot error.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
Or if you pay close enough attention to their wording, and hear "check gear down", you simply ignore their lame AF shenanigans...
They DO say "report 3 down and locked," and BTW they say it at one Marine Corps Air Station that I know of, at a minimum.
slug
Member
MCAS Cherry Point called "report gear down and locked" circa 2001. We had skids.
Course now before landing we confirm that our wheels are down 7 times by the check-list. Seven's a good number.
phrogpilot73
Well-Known Member
And that's the place that really irks me when I hear it. It's like the body's not even cold yet... In a little over 4 years at the River, I never ONCE heard it - now if I come down I hear it EVERY time! C'mon, it's not like you've never seen them before. So, I make sure to report 3 down and welded to them...