Yeah, no shit! I had to do slingload operation with an Avenger (attaching equipent to the underside of a helicopter in flight) underneath a Chinook in the desert outside of El Paso. In addition to being sandblasted, there were 1/2” wide bolts of static electricity discharging everywhere because the flight crew had little to no experience with slingload ops and didn’t use a discharge line. It was crazy, but I didn’t understand just how crazy until I actually went to Air Assault school a year later.
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