THEY LAUGHED WHEN THE OLD VETERAN TOUCHED THE HUEY—UNTIL THE GENERAL ORDERED EVERYONE TO SALUTE
Technicians Couldn’t Restart a Downed Helicopter, Then the General Called a Forgotten Combat Veteran The helicopter died at 9:17 on a gray Thursday morning. Not sputtered. Not stalled. Died. One second, the restored UH-1 Huey was shaking the windows of Hangar 12 with the deep, familiar thunder of its rotor system. The next, its turbine … Read more