Hovering a few feet off their ground for a moment, its 9,000 pound airframe suspended from a crane, Crew Chief Bobby McBride’s UH-1H Huey “Iroquios” 68-16179 seemed reluctant to touch down one last time on Sunday in its new home at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial. But then the chopper settled into its cradle, with its nose oriented toward Vietnam, exactly 285 degrees to the East, said Randall County Judge Ernie Houdashell, who spearheaded the effort to obtain the vintage ship. read more
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