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Where’s an oven when you need one?

Hughes

On Dryden-18 it was unusual for some of us to eat in the base camp kitchen on a regular basis. Thus began the search for an edible substitute to actual food, which culminated in the Swanson TV Dinner and the clamshell oven.

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Getting some quiet time in the cockpit

Hughes

How do you quiet a noisy one-man band? You put five on the main, four on the tail, install a muffler, add forward-looking infrared and Loran-C just for spite—and get it all operational in 1972, albeit for a limited time and in a limited place—for a single mission.

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1974 On spec

OMNR

I ferried the new 500C around to several of the forestry bases in northwestern Ontario to let forestry officials have a look and to evaluate the load capacity and the numbers. Viking Helicopters was looking to encourage Ontario’s MNR to do some charter work, hoping for a month or two of minimums during 1974′s fire season which was just beginning.

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Site information

Helair

In August of 2009 when I opened Helicopter Highlights, I was expecting to put up no more than six or eight posts and some pictures from a few jobs that I had been on and then call it a day. Then the search engines locked on.

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Comedy of errors

Helair

Since this was to be the last trip for the winter, no additional fuel had been spotted. There was some quantity of 80/87 if it became necessary to use it to get back to Red Lake, but I hoped I could get along without it. It was not to be.

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