Author Topic: Some Stories From a Cobra Pilot in Vietnam  (Read 358 times)

Offline katanaso

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Some Stories From a Cobra Pilot in Vietnam
« on: August 09, 2014, 11:19:00 PM »
I thought these would be good to share with folks here.

Linking to this guy's stuff on ar15.com:

https://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1605475_Best_of_Snake_driver_s_Vietnam_Cobra_Tales.html
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Offline DaveBB

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Re: Some Stories From a Cobra Pilot in Vietnam
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2014, 11:44:31 PM »
I didn't read your link.  But I have read a few books about Cobra pilots in Vietnam.  A few things were a common theme in each of the books.  The pilots hated the blue-tinted canopies because it ruined night vision.  The fact that the gunner and pilot canopies opened on different sides was also universally hated.  And the Huey Cobras developed a strange vibration that eventually lead to disentegration of the the Cobras.  As far as I know, the cause was never discovered.
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Offline Blooz

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Re: Some Stories From a Cobra Pilot in Vietnam
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2014, 03:00:05 PM »
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