They managed to do it and get back to port!
In April 1956, the crew of a Sikorsky HSS-1 was conducting dipping sonar trials off Key West using the submarine USS Corporal SS-346 as a target when cockpit instruments indicated that there was a problem with the main transmission. Since a transmission failure in flight was to be avoided at all costs, the pilot, CDR Culley, and his crewman Lt Johnson prepared to ditch while, I'm guessing, the sonar operator signaled the submarine to surface.
In any event, the submarine did surface and Culley quickly coordinated a plan with its skipper, LCDR Proctor, to save the helicopter by landing it on the deck aft of the conning tower. The ad hoc helipad was reportedly only two inches wider than the tread of the chopper's tires.
USS Corporal SS-346, a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the corporal, an alternate name for the fallfish, found in streams of the eastern United States. Corporal was launched 10 June 1945 and decommed in '73
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Corporal_(SS-346)
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08346.htm
amazing skill!
ReplyDeleteSo many cool stories out there. So little time to write and read them all.👍
ReplyDelete14 years this November 6th! 43,856 posts so far. All spare time.... that I should have been using differently I suppose, but - I am pretty sure nothing would have changed much in my life.
ReplyDeleteI have concluded that I've got ADHD, but was born before that was a thing that kids were diagnosed with, and whether or not whatever med they give guys for it would do anything to make my life improve is a situation I'm not likely to ever learn.
But I wouldn't have gotten to Comic Con and SEMA without making this blog and using it to get press passes. So, that's 2 weeks a year of bliss with the people I consider my "tribe" and the many friends I've made (like you) because I'm wired to waste time blogging instead of taking classes and course and get a better job that pays far more.
I'd be so rich of someone had taught welding in high school, or how to be an electrician. I was an electronics tech in the Navy and for Raytheon. I know I could easily be an electrician. OR if they'd taught machinist courses with a CNC, or a Bridgeport and a South Bend. I was also a machinists mate in the Navy, I could do all the machinist jobs too.
But high school was wasted on trig, physics, chemistry, and algebra, all that shit there's no damn use for in regular jobs, just the shit people think is needed to get good enough grades to get into colleges. Which aren't affordable.
Story of my life, right there. None of the things needed for life, never a woman that wasn't bi polar.
I shit you not. 3 with masters degrees. Every one with bi-polar, meds, and a therapist or two.
Can I get a damn do-over? How about parents that don't divorce when you're 3? Fucking hell.
Time to blog, I've depressed myself
I hear you. Went through one neurotic mess of a girlfriend to another for a long long time. Then I met my wife to be, her parent's built houses, and so she knew everything there was to know about construction-and the tools of the trade, she loved Mustangs-we've owned three thus far.
Deleteomg... she sounds perfect! So, does she have a sister? lol
DeleteYeah, but her sister is the neurotic mess. :)
Deleteand then I see what I just posted https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-truth-is-most-people-have-problems.html
ReplyDeleteYou're okay my friend. You're okay, and you are doing us all a great favor with this blog and the others you do. Thanks again.
ReplyDeletelol, thanks! So? Dance monkey, dance? rofl.
DeleteYou're welcome. After all, I'm doing this more for me, constantly out looking around in person and online to find cool stuff. Then I share it.
I don't know if you knew, but when I eventually get old and am done adding to this blog, I'm going to have the most perfect blog for me to read that there ever could be.
There isn't anyone or anything that could make one better, and I'll just kick back and read through everything I've forgot.
Because I've already forgotten most of it. 43,865 posts, who could anyone remember them anyway, you know?
I just thought you might be interested in knowing that. I've posted it before, but no one really seemed to ever understand - "oh, he's making his own old age alzheimers entertainment blog?" Yes, yes I am. Well, I hope I don't get alzheimers, but either way, I'll have a couple decades of material posted to read through that I find absolutely amazing
This was some superb airmanship. Transmission and gearbox troubles are the very worst mechanical problems for Helos. When a chip light comes on, all sphincters on board start to pucker. The chip light means a) there's a malfunctioning sensor and everything is fine. b) there's a problem with the transmission or gearbox and you have absolutely no idea how long you can keep flying before it fails or seizes. If the transmission fails you will probably be able to auto-rotate to some sort of landing, if the gearbox fails the rotor stops and its just you Jesus and gravity. Our UH1N's in Germany had a lot of transmission problems because the rebuilds were given to the lowest bidder. We once had an N-model auto rotate into the back yard of 'Annabella's' the local whorehouse. It was a priceless moment when they radioed in their location. It wasn't all funny tho, stateside we had an S-3 that had a major failure which caused the entire engine/transmission/rotor/blades assembly to rip itself out of the airframe shortly after takeoff.
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