This is also the main reason that soldiers in Vietnam saw more action than those soldiers of preceding wars. Cobra helicopters totaled 1,110,716 flight hours in Vietnam. Without helicopters, it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the 800 mile border with Cambodia and Laos (the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of 1954 and the Geneva Accords of 1962 would secure the border).Īrmy Huey’s totaled 9,713,762 flight hours in Vietnam between October 1966 and the end of American involvement in early 1973. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. The average lapse between being wounded and reaching a hospital was less than one hour, and as a result, less than one percent of those wounded died of their wounds within the first 24 hours. MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions, airlifting 900,000 patients (nearly one-half were Americans). 75,000 Vietnam Veterans are severely disabled. Although the percent of dead is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300% higher than in World War II. As a result, 58,169 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.29 million who served. One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam became a casualty. I refuse to give up.Photo above from 7/15/66 shows the crash that killed two men from the Fulton/Montgomery County area of upstate New York just west of Albany, SGT Robert R. But I never begin something without finishing it, and I never travel the same way twice. It will be a challenge, especially for my wife and children, who were the first call I made. So I will try again, I must continue, and I will start from the beginning because I must do the entire journey in one machine. This has been a good story and has taken a year’s worth of preparation and effort. What I wish I still had is my camera with records of all that I saw deserts, canyons, swamps. But all of my clothes, documents and money sank. I had melted ice to drink, and several protein snacks, about 2000 calories of them, and I would eat them every hour and planned to spread them over three days. My helicopter was a risk, it was very small and light, I called it an “aerial scooter.” Next time, I will be careful to have my satellite phone on me at all times.
This can’t be predicted, that’s why this trip was meant to be record-breaking. How prepared were you for something like this? A search and rescue team would have been deployed no matter what, whenever a pilot goes missing. This is like any record-breaking major sports event - there is always a risk.
Do you feel it’s fair that Canadians are paying for your rescue efforts when you undertook a knowingly dangerous task? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Captain Stephane Julien of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Pierre Radisson that rescued Ananov said he and the crew were amazed at the pilot’s survival: “Finding him felt like the Habs making the winning goal in the final!” He says the first thing Ananov asked for was a glass of water, after which he proceeded to tell the crew about his harrowing time on the ice, “Like a real storyteller, he had everyone laughing for hours.” From a satellite phone on the Pierre Radisson, Ananov spoke to the National Post’s Sadaf Ahsan about his rescue. But when a rubber belt connecting the engine to the rotor exploded, the helicopter began to descend into the Arctic waters, leaving the pilot stranded on an ice floe for over 30 hours. Russian pilot Sergey Ananov, 49, began his solo around-the-world journey on a Robinson R22 helicopter, which weighs less than one tonne, on June 13 in Moscow. Join the conversation THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook-Sergey Ananov Article content.
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