Word: copters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army Reserve unit, and most of the crew worked 14-hour days over a period of six weeks. Several chose to remain overnight in a cave on the rock face. "There was one guy who was like a human fly," marvels Captain Richard Dominy, the commander of the copter unit. "He liked it so much up there he didn't want to come down...
...Expert William Balles loaded it with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...
...seven of us left-six campers and one counselor stood next in line. The ranger's helicopter, the dark green one that looked like a flying bubble, had room for two but they were squeezing in four. Three of the group-including my brother-were left for the second copter...
...warmed up but the members of our group weren't on that shift. A woman got off, with two small children and six large suitcases. It had cost her $300 to go fifteen minutes in the air but her fur showed that she could handle it. Smiling at the copter pilot, she dialed for a taxi and was off. She had offered the pilot double the normal fee to get her little group out of Cottonwood before ours...
...Several Marine helicopters pick up the soldiers and fly them to a small field bordered by pines. Duden jumps over a small ridge, turns quickly, falls to her stomach and covers the open field with her M16. As the last copter leaves, she relaxes. "Good news!" someone yells. "We have 30 minutes...