Check this out. You can rent an old HH-3 Pelican that has been converted into a cottage.

Go to this site, click on Cottages on the left, then on Helicopter on the right.

HH-3 cottage

my, the HH-3 interior upgrades have come a long way since the good ol' days in Kodiak...

nice find, duckcop. thanks for the link. i'll be forwarding it to a number of old H-3 frequent flyers.

COOL! I crashed the HH-60!

Didn't somebody build a custom bus out of a Pelican?

Yea, I crashed to. I didn't want to mention the helo game. Thought I would keep it as a little surprise.

I flew in a Pelican once or twice. It was about 15 yrs ago, but I don't remember the inside being that nice.

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Did a lot of sleeping in one just like that while flying the coast of Alaska. When I wasn't sleeping I was smoking butts and reading books.
Great big old overweight lumbering bird.
Fair winds,
Dick

So, do ya' stick a quarter in it, and it will shake like vibrator bed and put ya' to sleep?

Slow as they might have been.. always thought the HH52 and H3 were better then what we have today but I never had to work on'em so that's about all I know..

Question for you rotory/fixed wing pukes.. Why do you always see helo types wearing helmets but fixed wing do not? Can't you still bump your head just as easy in a c130 as you can in a 65?

Chicks dig the helmet! Also in the H3 we were up and moving around doing safety checks in all sorts of flying conditions, we needed visors as we examined hydrolic servo's, and we needed ear protection anyways so why not cover the head as well. We also were landing on all sorts of crazy light station platforms, rocks,sand, gravel stream beds, doing running water landings and take offs as well as just having some everyday hard landings and some one in there wisdom said we should just be prepared for the enevitable. It also goes well with the very cool leather flight jackets and the sexy orange orange flight suits.
Peace,
Dick
PS, What's with the Pukes comment, internet rambo $hit?

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Relax, Dick ... "pukes" is just another endearing term to use on somebody else's rate or service or military status ... doesn't mean nuthin'. I use "Navy pukes" a lot ...

Never Mind

When the ramp is open in the back, during drops, the Dropmaster and assistant wear helmets. Lots of static lines and deployment bags flying back.

Walking around in the back of the bus on a rough day, wish I had a helmet on. Not always easy to stay standing during a safety check.

Actually, the most fun was using one of the two urinals located in the ramp area. Holding open the urinal door (spring loaded aligator) operating the "interlocking slide fastener" on the bottom of the flight suit (threw in the technical name for Dick the ASM) wrapping your arm around the grasshopper arms to hold on and trying to find another hand to dig out the shy, little fire hose.

Just wasn't as much fun when the atomic toilet upgrade replaced the urinals and honey bucket.

Ahhh, warm memories; on my flight suit!

Then there were the relief tubes on the H-3. Sound powered tubes!

It was a no no to use those tubes. I had no problem holding the bladder when I was 19, almost a non issue peeing then.

I thought you guys peed in yer wet suit ...

I was an ASM long before they became rescue swimmers. I had a wet suite that was wore by h52 crews working polor ops and I used one time to jump out of and h3 and attache aux flotation to another h3 that had and emergency landing in Sitka Sound. I stayed in the downed helo as it was towed back to Sitka by a Coast Guard small boat. I was to keep the helo from tipping over if one of the aux bags deflated by deflating the other side. I think the rescue swimmer program started in '84-85. We had helos that went swimming while I was an ASM. Some of the best flights I took were up to Redoupt Lake to do running single engine landings and lost engine running take offs, simulated tail rotor failures and auto's to the lake. Seems like a life time ago.
Peace,
Dick

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Charlie32

Cool place, it's a little pricey on my retired Coastie pay at $1700 a night though! I used to get paid to sleep in one, amazng.....

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Cool place, it's a little pricey on my retired Coastie pay at $1700 a night though!

Everything must run on JP5 or something for that price.

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Then there were the relief tubes on the H-3. Sound powered tubes!

Oh, Gawd! I almost forgot!
Yeah, having the FNG blow into the emergency ICS voice tube to make sure it is clear.