tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060827553081940333.post4480981856833875911..comments2024-03-28T21:15:11.065-04:00Comments on Kathryn's Report: Bell UH-1F Iroquois, N3181F: Incident occurred October 09, 2020 in Willits, Mendocino County, CaliforniaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060827553081940333.post-39353914218916732392020-10-14T19:37:55.070-04:002020-10-14T19:37:55.070-04:00^^The scary thing is that is the FAA's officia...^^The scary thing is that is the FAA's official statement finding now on record. The FAA has a lot of low level admin employees who do the writings. What we are seeing here (and not just here) is the level of ignorance of basics when it comes to working for the most important government entity for aviation (with the NTSB being a close second whose accident investigation findings can affect Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060827553081940333.post-86544201827427137002020-10-14T08:54:57.886-04:002020-10-14T08:54:57.886-04:00Did someone presume that the FastFin's cutout ...Did someone presume that the FastFin's cutout area of reduced vertical fin was a missing "rudder" and write it up? There is no swinging rudder on a Huey.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060827553081940333.post-8028489843152804492020-10-13T18:19:31.733-04:002020-10-13T18:19:31.733-04:00A really old bird built in 1964 originally for the...A really old bird built in 1964 originally for the USAF according to the SN history. Being USAF instead of Army means it likely was a domestic bird and never set skids in Vietnam. It has been used as an external rigging platform. One interesting thing of note: it had a tail boom mod called "FastFin" by BLR Aerospace according to the the company that owns it (and another UH-1). Link to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com