Wokka wokka wokka!

[nudemetalz]

Here it is 10.10pm and I hear a noise of an RNZAF Iroquois. However, sounds like more than one and is getting louder. So, run downstairs and pop outside.

I strain my eyes and can just makeout in the darkness, one,...two,...three Hueys totally unlit and fourth a little way back with a small red positional light going on. NVG exercise flying perhaps ?
Look like they were heading towards Ohakea.

Really awesome to see them flying like that, don't see that at all around here.

[Blackshear]

Unlit, you say?
Stealthmode in a Huey? SURELY YOU JEST!

But omg sex, WOKKA WOKKA

[James Deuce]

Yeah, they go through Belmont Forest park behind us, up over the old arsenal and over youse fellas.

[Pussy]

You got a "hot l-zee" out the back of your place, Jim?

[James Deuce]

Nah, just redneck 10 acre block owners.

[nudemetalz]

In the Vietnam War, the NVA and VC could hear the Hueys coming from miles away but because they flew so low and the noise bounced all around the place they couldn't tell which direction from. So, yes, in a word, Stealthy......ish. :)

[NighthawkNZ]

I strain my eyes and can just makeout in the darkness, one,...two,...three Hueys totally unlit and fourth a little way back with a small red positional light going on. NVG exercise flying perhaps ?
Look like they were heading towards Ohakea.


SAS Exercise, anti terrorism (actually dunno but sounded good idea... lol)

[R6_kid]

Nah, just redneck 10 acre block owners.

And a few hedges of whacky-backy...

[Pussy]

They wouldn't be so loud if they didn't have those big single cylinder motors in them....

[James Deuce]

And a few hedges of whacky-backy...

That explains why those ducks I ran over tasted like hash.

[James Deuce]

They wouldn't be so loud if they didn't have those big single cylinder motors in them....
You've landed upside down one time too many my friend.

[mashman]

Thought they were comin for me for a moment as they flew over the house... we could just make them out over the treeline with the being backlit by the lights from Paremata... We saw 4, the front and rear ones with a single flashing red light... fookin noisy things, could hear them for a good minute before they finally throbbed over the house... oddly hypnotic

[nudemetalz]

They're actually not that noisy inside when your flying in them.

[Hans]

You've landed upside down one time too many my friend.
Naah... He's right. It's the big single piston breaking the sound barrier, that makes that noise....:buggerd:

[Pussy]

You've landed upside down one time too many my friend.

Bugger off! I generally leave the aeroplane in a re-usable state after each landing....

[mashman]

Bugger off! I generally leave the aeroplane in a re-usable state after each landing....

Generally :girlfight:

[R6_kid]

I grew up next to Hobsonville Airbase from 1988-1997... 'wokka wokka wokka' was more or less what I went to bed to every night. They used to do night time hover practice about 400m from our front lawn (we lived pretty close to the perimeter fence).

Back then the Andovers would quite frequently use Hobsonville for practice on grass strips, and the Herks used to get in on the action too. Try being a 7yo kid trying to go to bed at 8:30 with a C-130 doing STOL ops outside your bedroom window!

Photo is me about 4yo (1990) at the crash gate 50m from our driveway. That's pretty much what I spent all my time doing when I was growing up.

[nudemetalz]

Awesome stuff, R6_kid !!!

[R6_kid]

heh, this aviation stuff is pretty thick in my blood! :2thumbsup

[cs363]

Bugger off! I generally leave the aeroplane in a re-usable state after each landing....

I'll hazard a guess he wasn't referring to your aeroplane..... :bleh:

(Which I gather must be getting some use, seeing as our coffee supply at work is holding out well this week.... :whistle:)

[popa griffin]

If they had no lights, and were black...

Then there is a high chance that they were full with SAS or CTTAG peeps.

As from my experiance, thats the style the tend to travle in.

[CookMySock]

Get your spudgun out and dank one on the windscreen with it. That will make them get a wobble on.

Steve

[MSTRS]

Here it is 10.10pm and I hear a noise of an RNZAF Iroquois. However, sounds like more than one and is getting louder. So, run downstairs and pop outside.

I strain my eyes and can just makeout in the darkness, one,...two,...three Hueys totally unlit and fourth a little way back with a small red positional light going on. NVG exercise flying perhaps ?
Look like they were heading towards Ohakea.

Really awesome to see them flying like that, don't see that at all around here.

That would be cool. If only they did that here. But no, one night last year, 9.30pm to about 10pm midweek, right over the duck ponds at Anderson Park, Greenmeadows. One hovering whilst 3 or more fly round and round, taking turns at god-knows-what.
Night flying exercises...fair enough. But in a residential area, with little kids and all? C'mon. I was tempted to give them some live fire practice...

[alley cat]

I dont know anything about avaition, but the hueys are so horn! devoured Chickenhawk in a couple of days, brave boys those fellas. But that sound is just the best.
hueys and uboats, mmmm. think i was dropped on my head a while back:wacko:

[CM2005]

they're mega! i was in ohakea when they had all 16 of them up and flying, it was excellent!

[Delerium]

That would be cool. If only they did that here. But no, one night last year, 9.30pm to about 10pm midweek, right over the duck ponds at Anderson Park, Greenmeadows. One hovering whilst 3 or more fly round and round, taking turns at god-knows-what.
Night flying exercises...fair enough. But in a residential area, with little kids and all? C'mon. I was tempted to give them some live fire practice...


You wont be saying that if they are needed to help your family in an urban setting.

[MSTRS]

You wont be saying that if they are needed to help your family in an urban setting.

Perhaps so. Some notice of the event might have been nice. Or waited till school holidays.
A huey hovering about 50 metres from one's house, with 3 others buzzing the entire area for 30+ minutes, is not that nice. Can't hear to talk on the phone, can't hear the TV, neighbourhood kids screaming in panic, local police totally unaware it was planned...
There are shitloads of places that would suit, without being in a residential area.

[Swoop]

I dont know anything about avaition, but the hueys are so horn! devoured Chickenhawk in a couple of days, brave boys those fellas. But that sound is just the best.
hueys and uboats, mmmm. think i was dropped on my head a while back:wacko:
If you liked Chickenhawk, you will like this little gem!
http://www.amazon.com/Wings-Eagle-William-T-Grant/dp/080411062X

[nudemetalz]

Have to get that book.
I have "Firebirds" (one of the others there listed) Great book too !!!

[steve_t]

Did anyone else think this thread was gonna be about Fozzy Bear? Or am I just showing my age? :whistle:

[mashman]

Did anyone else think this thread was gonna be about Fozzy Bear? Or am I just showing my age? :whistle:

Heh, i was thinkin pacman!!!

[Naki Rat]

Naah... He's right. It's the big single piston breaking the sound barrier, that makes that noise....:buggerd:

I had an idea the "wop-wop" was generated by the rotors rather than the engine so here's the info...
The design selected, Bell's Model 204, was to be powered by a new Lycoming T-53 engine of some 850 shaft horsepower and featured a typical Bell two-blade teetering rotor. This gave it the distinctive 'wop-wop' sound that many people associate with the Viet Nam war. (http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-air-support/vietnam/iroquois.htm)

[alley cat]

If you liked Chickenhawk, you will like this little gem!
http://www.amazon.com/Wings-Eagle-William-T-Grant/dp/080411062X

thanks for the heads up:2thumbsup

[lb99]

That would be cool. If only they did that here. But no, one night last year, 9.30pm to about 10pm midweek, right over the duck ponds at Anderson Park, Greenmeadows. One hovering whilst 3 or more fly round and round, taking turns at god-knows-what.
Night flying exercises...fair enough. But in a residential area, with little kids and all? C'mon. I was tempted to give them some live fire practice...

pffft, you want choppers? try living in marlbourough at this time of year, there could be hundreds of the fuckers flitting about the place in the early hours, that and wind machines........

[Hans]

I had an idea the "wop-wop" was generated by the rotors rather than the engine so here's the info...
The design selected, Bell's Model 204, was to be powered by a new Lycoming T-53 engine of some 850 shaft horsepower and featured a typical Bell two-blade teetering rotor. This gave it the distinctive 'wop-wop' sound that many people associate with the Viet Nam war. (http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-air-support/vietnam/iroquois.htm)

And I thought the irony would have been blatantly obvious...

[allycatz]

They landed at Kapiti last nite...heliport is two houses away from me...lit up the whole property, the noise was phenomenol....also flew back in this morning

[allycatz]

Did anyone else think this thread was gonna be about Fozzy Bear? Or am I just showing my age? :whistle:

Have to admit I did too lol!

[P38]

Take one Bell UH-1 (Huey)

Add one Dillion M134 (Mini Gun)

Stir it up and watch the Hell Fire Rain from Above. :yes:


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[Swoop]

Another good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Chinook-David-McMullon/dp/0671015990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253174206&sr=1-1

[Oakie]

When I worked at Mount Cook 'wokka wokka wokka' meant another climber injured or dead on the mountain. Although there was the time it meant looking for cannibis growing out the back of the hotel ... and there was that few months period when it meant they film crew were heading back up the mountain to film some more of the 'Vertical Limit' movie. Hearing 'wokka wokka wokka' generally makes my heart sink though.

[Usarka]

I'm trying to remember the song.....

I wanna fly a helicopter
Hear the blades go wokka wokka
Helicopter
Wokka wokka
Helicopter
Wokka wokka

Sound off.....