My daddy always said . . .
you could knock a helicopter out of the sky with a well-placed rock. He would know since he was in four of them when they went down. In New Mexico, someone shot one out of the sky:
A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department helicopter that crashed Saturday in the yard of an Albuquerque home was brought down by a bullet, Sheriff Darren White said late Tuesday.
At a news conference in New Mexico, White showed pictures of where a bullet penetrated the windshield of the aircraft, known as Metro One, and shattered on a pedal the pilot uses to fly the helicopter.
CounterTop says:
What do you want to bet that whoever shot down the New Mexican Police Chopper was using a .50 Caliber.
Even if he wasn’t, I bet it will be reported he was.
August 10th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
I suspect that the guy (I assume it was a man) was woken up in the middle of the night by a low flying heli and decided to do somthing about it.
August 10th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
I’m almost willing to bet that the report will credit “an unlicensed .50-caliber AK-47 assault rifle”.
Cover all them bases.
August 10th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
How does a round that “shattered” on a control pedal bring down a helicopter?
In Los Angeles the cops have said that they “often” found bullet holes in their ‘copters and yet I’ve never heard of a golden BB taking one down.
Countertop and Homebru must be right since only a .50 cal AK is designed to take down an aircraft. Did you say that this took place at a schoolyard in Stockton?
August 10th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
David Drake once described a chopper as an aluminum-framed aluminum-skinned box with a lot of easy to damage stuff inside. He wasn’t kidding…