Is it just me?

Boedy · 03-18-2003, 05:31 PM

or do Fishban and Speyfly sound like the same person?

Stratocaster · 03-18-2003, 06:26 PM

Could he be double dipping? Maybe he feels outnumbered. :grin:

speyfly · 03-19-2003, 07:53 AM

Bodey, I love it when you prove my point. You guys are paranoid.

Straydog · 03-19-2003, 08:05 AM

Speyfly,

Are you the guy I saw in the Black helicopter hovering over my house???!???!?? :shocked: :shocked:

Cool Texan · 03-19-2003, 08:43 AM

I swear, Oliver Stone would love this board sometimes. No shortage of conspiracy theories here. [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

Is Spey really Fishban?
Is Fishban really Spey?
Does anyone really care??

Film at 11!!

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speyfly · 03-19-2003, 09:29 AM

Straydog, CT, this one is for you! :grin:

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1pump · 03-19-2003, 10:34 AM

The black helicopters again!! :shocked:
Where's my tinfoil hat? I was just wearing it the other day during Bush's TV address........

GutshotApe · 03-19-2003, 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by 1pump:
The black helicopters again!! :shocked:
Where's my tinfoil hat? I was just wearing it the other day during Bush's TV address........

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Anybody remember the real black helicopter of about 10 or 15 years ago in Portland? Some dope dealer saved up his money and bought a black Hughes 500....and learned to fly it. This black helicopter was spotted parked outside a bar

in north Portland on several occasions but every time when the cops got there, it had disappeared. There were ongoing reports in the Oregonian for a few days about this mysterious black helicopter being seen at various watering holes around town. Finally, the guy wigged out completely and was buzzing the morning rush hour traffic on I-5 in Vancouver...swooping down almost hitting cars....until he clipped a power line hanging over the freeway. Vancouver policeman who saw it happen said the guy was a good pilot to avoid crashing then & there...as it was he made a controlled crash in a nearby parking lot...and was handcuffed and taken into custody [img]graemlins/dork.gif[/img] ....the newspaper ran a photo of the black helicopter showing the door open and a half-empty bottle of Four Roses sitting in the passenger seat. The FAA cancelled the pilot's license and probably impounded the wrecked black helicopter

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crabbait · 03-19-2003, 03:21 PM

I have been heavily involved in anything aviation related in the Portland area since 1983 and I do not remember anything like that.

GutshotApe · 03-19-2003, 04:37 PM

Well....it must have been in the late '70s then....I remember reading about it over a period of several days and talking about it with our helicopter pilot....and now I vaguely place that conversation occurring in the old office at Gardiner....and I was over there 1974-1980. If there are any real oldtimers at the tower, Crabbait, they'll remember it.

The best I could ever talk our pilot into was landing at the Pleasant Hill DQ on Hwy 58 - for breakfast....oh, then there was the time we landed on Deathball Rock on the McKenzie across from Blue River....but that's another story.

Boedy · 03-19-2003, 05:36 PM

I was stationed in Honduras when I was in the Army for a year and we use to land Blackhawks in a old parking lot in downtown Tegucigalpa (the Capital) and pick up Pizza Hut Pizza to take back to base. The embassy had to block traffic and everything when we landed. I would laugh as everyone on the street thought that there was something big happing but it really was just a pizza run I really used to get a kick out of it. The ambassador kind of looked down on it but after we flew him out to the coast for lobster a few times he decided it was ok. Your tax money at work :grin:

1pump · 03-19-2003, 07:21 PM

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Anybody remember the real black helicopter of about 10 or 15 years ago in Portland?

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Yeah, GSA, I remember that one. It was a couple of years before crabbaits' time (about 1902)

I remember the bar-hopping. I think he had a couple of women with him the night he crashed. Earlier in the evening he landed at a park in SW Portland and dropped one of them off (or something). I think the old Flower Drum might have been one of his landing sites. I seem to recall that he auto-rotated after hitting the power line and landed in Clark College's parking lot. You said daytime, but I remember night, and yes, he got arrested.
Many years later I read a story in the paper about a guy who made a hard landing in a helicopter at one of the small airports around here. He dumped the helo on its side, then got out, dusted himself off, asked the amazed employees of a nearby business if he could use the phone, called a cab, then jumped in the cab and took off like nothing happened. Needless to say, the FAA was curious as to why someone would abandon a helo (I guess it sat there for a few days) and after a little investigating, they found it it was the same guy from the earlier incident!
I think that was finally the end of his aviation days.

STGRule · 03-19-2003, 07:29 PM

Yes, GSA. I remember it too.

GutshotApe · 03-19-2003, 08:11 PM

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Originally posted by 1pump:
I remember the bar-hopping. I think he had a couple of women with him the night he crashed. Earlier in the evening he landed at a park in SW Portland and dropped one of them off (or something). I think the old Flower Drum might have been one of his landing sites.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Yeah, at the time, that's the part that we found so intriguing...could you imagine how successful you could be picking up women in bars if your black Hughes 500 was sitting in the parking lot?

Unfortunately, the helicopter pilot we had was happily married...and our helicopter was nowhere near as cool as a black Hughes 500....but we did land it on top of Deathball Rock twice one day....a flat area the size of a ping pong table with vertical cliffs on all sides....then the pilot would crab the helo forward, dragging the skids, until we fell off the rock in a big swan dive....and pulling up as we cleared the riverside trees....what a rush! And then there was the time we hit the bear in the butt with the tip of the skid chasing the bear down a sharp ridge in a clearcut....and the time we flew 90 mph up the Siuslaw River 5 feet above the water and 25 feet underneath the mature maple riparian canopy that came together overhead...and then flew around the sharp river bend banked at a 45, still under the canopy, still going 90 mph....and then......Oh well, those were the days. I'm retired now...the pilot is dead (crashed in '86), so I guess I can tell these stories now.