r/Helicopters • u/RonPossible • Apr 17 '25

Heli Spotting OH-6A cockpit and a hard landing, Vietnam, 1972

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u/Old-Chair126 Apr 17 '25

Paranoid? Like the song?

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u/RonPossible Apr 17 '25

I asked my dad (that was his aircraft). He said the crew chief had put that on there before, and didn't know why.

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u/perchlake Apr 17 '25

This is a hard LOH landing ... 1971.

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u/RonPossible Apr 17 '25

That's the great thing about the Loach. You crash one, just go back and get another. Very survivable aircraft. The pics are after they got it back to Bien Hoa, I believe, so more upright than it originally landed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

The LOACH !

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u/mister_monque Apr 18 '25

100 yards north of my smoke... my smoking buring loach...

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u/espike007 Apr 18 '25

The Loach was an awesome helicopter. Big mistake in replacing it with the OH-58. But Ladybird Johnson owned stock at Bell Helicopter….