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Million Dollar Leaf Blower???
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aerowerxMarch 13, 2013, 2:49pm
Not Mini-Max related, but...

This happened when I was a student pilot, flying out of 4I9 (north central Ohio).

It was a beautidul June Saturday and I was scheduled for a solo flight.  As I pulled into the drive I noticed a tractor at the far end of the field mowing the grass.

While doing my preflight an Army Reserve Cobra helicopter flew over.

A few minutes late I was taxiing out, looked up, and there was the helicopter skimming along, 5 feet above the runway.  "737 Alpha Zulu holding short, runway One-Zero", I announced.  The chopper pilot answered: "I'm Just  cleaning the grass off the runway.  I'll be out of your way in a minute."

"Only in America", I said to myself.  " A million dollar leaf blower!"
If Man was not meant to fly, then Orville and Wilbur would have been butchers. After all, you know what they say about pigs and flying!
1300zmanMarch 13, 2013, 5:42pm
WOW Thats funny.... the medivac chopper helps out doing that at my field in the summer when they arent busy too...
RicardoMarch 13, 2013, 6:51pm
I've heard they also give this kind of service overseas but the runway cleaning is bit more intense. LOL
nschmokerMarch 13, 2013, 7:02pm
Good one Ricardo! Destruction testing to a new level.
PUFFMarch 14, 2013, 12:16pm
FOD removal the easy way..... Better than 100 airmen walking the Tarmac.... been there...
Harless GreearMarch 15, 2013, 1:10am
When I worked at the "Watts Barr" nuclear plant, There was a guy that told us that when he was in the Military, he flew helicopters and would on occasion go over to the White

House and go inverted and mow the lawn..

There was a psychiatric evaluation test  that we all had to take and he was the only one that they let go.. As he was saying goodby to us, he said that the reason they lest him

go was that he made a higher score on the test than the man that wrote it.. TRUE STORY
HARLESS in Va.
nschmokerMarch 15, 2013, 4:13am
Harless - the point of the test was to get a low score.