On October 12th a Canadian demonstration team, The Snowbirds, CT-144 crashed. “ Captain Kevin Domon-Grenier was forced to eject from his aircraft shortly before our performance in Atlanta this afternoon," An official press released said. So as Captain Domon-Grenier was on the ground an American Icon came to rescue him.
An Army Aviation Heritage Foundation who scrambled a Huey that was giving rides close to the downed Snowbird pilot, to aid in his recovery. this is Huey 624 “Lucky Star”. This particular helo was crashed and rebuilt 3 times in a time span of less than 40 days during the Vietnam War.
This is why we keep historical aircraft flying, not only to provide the public with history but we continue to rescue those In need
The pilot of the Huey is a hero and a very generous person and deserves a medal for what he did: stoping what he was doing to help someone else in need
A helicopter friend of mine trained Huey pilots, he has the record and only Instructor to say every huey pilot he trained they all came home. None of his pilots he trained were killed in Vietnam
