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William Reinicke

William Reinicke

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I know its a boat forum, but been seeing LOTS of these. I live fairly close to an AFB and was wondering why so many of these double rotary planes. Didnt realize these were the new latest and greatest. Pretty neat aircraft. The other day driving home, there was a convoy of like 6-7 flying in a straight line right over the hwy headed back to the base.

Anyone else seeing these yet in their area yet?

www.foxnews.com

Move over, Black Hawk: Army unveils the MV-75, tiltrotor aircraft to replace iconic assault chopper

The MV-75, a tiltrotor aircraft, will replace the Black Hawk, boosting the U.S. Army's rapid deployment and modernization efforts against strategic threats.
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Eric Patterson said:
I work next to a military airport and see aircraft every week. Never seen one of those. You been spying on Area 51? :)
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Not quite in that area lol. Up by kirtland AFB and have to drive by it daily to go to work. The last 2 weeks, Ive been seeing lots of these double rotor airplanes and even thought to myself... why so many of these now? Then when I saw a bunch flying in a straight line the other night, I even thought it was a bit odd. Stumbled across this article and it all started to make sense.

Pretty sure I had two Stealth B2 bombers go over the house the other evening. It was dark but just enough day light to make out the shape. What was so eery was I didnt hear it until they were already passing the house and I looked up and saw the interesting shape. The only other really cool thing is sometimes at the lake, the Big big C-130 planes will be flying over pretty low. Last time they were doing that, and i was fishing, they had the back hatch open there were 4 military sitting at the edge letting their feet dangle. They were low enough that when I waved, they waved back. LOUD but damn cool. If there was ever a moment to think "MERICA" in my head, it was then. Freaking badass!
 
Very cool, will be on the lookout this summer. Given our proximity to Army, AF, and Marine bases - and use of our local airport for touch-and-gos - we see a lot of military traffic and training just off the beach.
 
Kirtland is a hub for helicopter operations. Probably testing or training first batch of pilots.

I lived near Philadelphia and the Boeing Helicopter plant. Used to see CH47 Chinook's on check rides after rebuild.

Rick Lathrop
 
Out with the old, in with the new. I read about these a few days ago. Haven't seen one yet. But the concept has been around a while. While driving through White Sands once, I had an Osprey fly over me, land on the road ahead, some random dude came out the back with a courier bag, and the Osprey took right back off. Dude ran into a run down building that I had assumed the whole time was condemned. It was strange. The whole thing happened in less than 2 minutes.
 
Steven Alexander said:
Out with the old, in with the new. I read about these a few days ago. Haven't seen one yet. But the concept has been around a while. While driving through White Sands once, I had an Osprey fly over me, land on the road ahead, some random dude came out the back with a courier bag, and the Osprey took right back off. Dude ran into a run down building that I had assumed the whole time was condemned. It was strange. The whole thing happened in less than 2 minutes.
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Damn... El Chapo really knew how to make an entrance into the US when he wasnt behind bars.
 
I live a bit south of JB- McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in NJ and might have seen 4 of these last weekend. I presumed they were Ospreys, but maybe not. I'll be looking now.
 
Bob Reitmeyer said:
I live a bit south of JB- McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in NJ and might have seen 4 of these last weekend. I presumed they were Ospreys, but maybe not. I'll be looking now.
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Originally thought the same, but I was able to see the V tail on one flying over and thought to myself, that looks just like my grandfathers V tail bonanza mooney. Grandfather is an interesting guy, a pilot himself, and wrecked a jet in the navy and just wrecked a plane about 6ish years ago. Swore he would give up his pilot license at 75 but at 82 he keeps on going. His flying is like our duck hunting. Cant keep the man out of the sky. Pilots gonna fly is what I like to say. When he wrecked his Comanche piper 6-7 years ago, before the FAA could complete their investigation, he was already figuring out how he was going to get the insurance money and get his hands on a mooney v tail airplane. As long as I can remember flying with him and growing up in his household, for the short time I had to live with him, I remember him talking about these airplanes. When he finally got one, he had to tell everyone. Bet he spends a few hours a week still in the sky. Drives my grandmother nuts, and she told him all the time. So one day he showed up with a harley. Think he was 80 years old at the time. She lost it! He said the plane or the harley, which one am I getting rid of? He still has his hangar at the little local airport.
 
Your grandfather sounds like my kind of guy! I don't out how I will get a walker to my duck or turkey blind but I have a few years to figure it out. What a great zest for life your grandfather has!
 
RM Anderson said:
Your grandfather sounds like my kind of guy! I don't out how I will get a walker to my duck or turkey blind but I have a few years to figure it out. What a great zest for life your grandfather has!
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He’s a pretty cool dude. He wanted me to get my pilots license so bad, just didn’t do much for me. I remember when my grandma would be out of town, sometimes we would fly to an airport 45 min away (3 hour drive) just to have dinner because he liked a burger they made. One time I came home drunk when I was 15, and instead of scolding me, he woke me up at 3 am to go “night flying”, mind you, this is little 4 seater bumpy little plane. A Comanche piper is a bitty little thing. Not feeling so hot at that time, we get to the airport nice a dark, he makes me use the dolly and get it out of the hangar, and tells me we are flying to an airport an hour south to do one touch and go and go home. Of course I’m roughing it out, but I’m on verge of vomit the entire time. I take off, get to altitude, and then he takes sun visor and puts it across the windshield and tells me to do it all off instrument. When he does this, he also hands me a vomit bag, but my stubborn self keeps it together the entire flight, do the touch and go, get it home, put it away, and get back home around 5:30-6am. I lose it all once I get home….. to this day every once in awhile he will tell me how impressed he was that I was able to keep it together for that flight. But I’ll be the first to admit, it took every ounce of strength I had not to throw up in that plane. I could always hear him scolding me and laying into me verbally if I had.

Anyways, got this pic today. Certainly the new Helis in action following a c-130. Major smoke today from a fire in Arizona, sorry for the haziness. Best I could get driving.
 

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