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Topic: Gene Cernan's Bell 47 helicopter crash (Jan. 1971)
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Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 07-26-2013 07:37 PM
   
Does anyone know of any pictures of Gene Cernan's Bell 47 helicopter crash in January 1971? |
mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 07-27-2013 03:01 AM
Here is a picture post crash. |
Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 07-27-2013 05:03 AM
Excellent, thanks Do you know of any of the wreckage? |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-27-2013 09:46 AM
Gene describes this incident in detail in his book "Last Man on the Moon." It seems to have been more serious than he let on at the time (of course). |
Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 07-29-2013 05:11 PM
After snooping a bit and some help from you guys on here. I am starting to be believe that there are no images of the crash site. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 07-29-2013 08:04 PM
Well the crash was in a river, so there probably wasn't anything to take a picture of. Cernan describes how he came to in the water after the crash. Presumably, the helicopter sank and was later recovered... |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 07-30-2013 07:56 PM
There are some photos of other Apollo astronauts (e.g. Al Worden) standing next to Bell 47 choppers. Does anyone know if there was a particular Bell 47 assigned to the astronauts? It would be interesting to find out if the one in the Worden photo is the same as the one that Cernan later crashed. |
Nigel Mc
Member Posts: 182
From: Sheffield, UK
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 08-04-2013 04:08 PM
Does any one know where to find that picture of Worden next to a Bell helicopter? Apparently a photo exists of some of the astronauts standing next to a helicopter wreck, as a kind of send up to Gene Cernan, does any one know of this one? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-05-2013 12:14 AM
I have that Worden photo... |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-05-2013 09:32 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Nigel Mc:
Apparently a photo exists of some of the astronauts standing next to a helicopter wreck, as a kind of send up to Gene Cernan, does any one know of this one?
Please tell us you're not thinking of asking Cernan to sign the picture at Autographica! |
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