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"A wise man learns from his mistakes; a wiser man learns from other people's mistakes..." 2/23/2010
Links to chapters below Links to chapters below Latest Update OCTOBER 17, 2012 (a cyber portal into "Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual" and the series "A Blip on the Radar") SEE ALSO: WWW. HELICOPTERSTORIES.COM (keep scrolling down, there's more...
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Our stories and tales on the subject of 'Helicopters' (technical) and 'Life' (environmental, philosophical, humanitarian, scurrilous & obscene) are available here on www.writersharbor.org
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direct hyperlinks to the chapters, aswith a brief description of what you can expect to find there. We hope that Helicopter pilots, mechanics, and other funky Humans will enjoy some of our articles, and in turn provide us with your feedback and first person Life Experience anecdotes. About anything. Just write it...
I love to fly, soar, and dream. And cause utter chaos. I hope you do too, in your mind and heart.
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Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Note: too technical for your taste? Scroll down this page to the "Blip on the Radar" series. (anecdotal, wild tales, culture shock & chaos)
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Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual - Introduction
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual - Feedback
An Interesting Letter ref MTM - #001 - Jon Wagner
An interesting letter ref MTM - #002 - Richard Grills
An Interesting Letter ref MTM- # 003 -Jon Wagner
An Interesting Letter ref MTM - #004 Richard Grills
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-A "What's it all about? - Finding Fish!"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-B "Skipjack, Yellowfin, Bigeye, Albacore, Bluefin"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-C "Foamers and Breezers"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-D "Radio buoys, Bird Radar, Dirty tricks and Sculduggery"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.1-E "Herding, and the tow-line"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-A "Your job offer: legitimate questions"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-B "Your job offer: Pay? How Much and When?
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2B-1 Potential Employers
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-C "Your Cabin and your room mate(s)"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-D "Other duties? Humping fish?"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.2-E "Food, food, glorious food!"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-A "Different techniques for landing"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-A Landing Video discussions
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-B "Wind, waves, and wild decks"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-C "Take-Off"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-C Take-Off Video Discussions
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-D "Tie-downs and Blade Socks"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-E "Runaway Blades"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch. 3-F "Herding (2)"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-G "Descending to a Log"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-H "Attaching a Radio Buoy"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-H-1 "Drawings"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.3-I "Reducing speed quickly-Scrubbing"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual "A Word to the Wise"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-1 "The Long, Dark Tunnel"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-2 "Almost outta gas!"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-3 "Digital Select Calling"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-4 "Limitations and Failures"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.4-5 "Hey! It sure is getting dark!"
Heads Up! "The 15 Most likely Scenarios for a Tuna Chopper Crash" keep scrolling down, there's more... Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.5-2 "A bit of Theater"
Moggy's Tunaboat Helicopter Manual Ch.5-3 "Keeping your Captain Happy"
(to be continued - work in progress) A Blip on the Radar
(anecdotal, wild tales, lies, culture shock, and the pursuit of chaos)
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A Blip on the Radar (part 1) "Staying with the Herd"
A Blip on the Radar (part 2) "Running the Gauntlet"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 3) "Sunshine"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 4) "Apples and Pears"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 5) "Near-Miss"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 6) "Backflips"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 7) "Routine and Sudden Terror"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 8) "Eyes of Dead Man"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 9) "Deck Boss have Big Problem"
A Blip on the Radar (part 10) "The Garbage Can; Moggy, Moggy, what you DO??"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 11) "Plastic, War, and Manta Rays"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 12) "No Man is an Island"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 13) "The Lady in Blue"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 14) "On Holding Hands, and Smoking Pot"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 15A) "Beautiful American Film Star"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 15B) "Beautiful American Film Star"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 16) "Shithouse Etiquette; Moggy, Moggy, what you DO??"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 17) "Barking Mad; Moggy, Moggy, what you DO??"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 18) "Starry, starry night" keep scrolling down, there's more... Forever Free
A Blip on the Radar (Part 20) "Only the Idiots"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 21) "Flipping the Bird"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 22) "He not like to eat with Crew..."
A Blip on the Radar (part 23A) "Birth of a Psychopath"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 23B) "Eggs and Psychopaths"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 24A): "I have Control!.... JESUS!"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 24B) "What I mean is that some people do stupid shit"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 24C) "A local jolly over the Rain Forest"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 24D) "I'm good. I don't need your help. Can't you see that, numb nuts??"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 24E) "What did you do THAT for?"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 25) "Floored by a Russian Hooker"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 26) "The Funny Guy"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 27A) "Musing about Mother Earth"
A Blip on the Radar (part 27B) "The Quiet Observer"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 28) "The Immarsat problem"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 29A) "The Hookers are coming"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 29B) "An Old Sailor's Poem"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 29C) "Hotel Excelsior"
A Blip on the Radar (Part 30) "Grease Monkey" NEW 7/27/2012
A Blip on the Radar (Part 31) "A Strange Premonition" NEW 8/3/2012
A Blip on the Radar (Part 32) "An Unusual Passenger" NEW 8/3/2012
A Blip on the Radar (Part 33) "Fly quietly, for our Friends lie there" NEW 8/8/2012
A Blip on the Radar (Blip# 34) "Die with the Dolphins (1)" Added here 8/15/2012
A Blip on the Radar (Blip# 35) "Die with the Dolphins (2)" Added here 8/15/2012
(to be continued - work in progress) The Tuna Hunter click on any link
The Tuna Hunter Ch.1 "The Empty Quarter" I told you, keep scrolling down, there's more... The Tuna Hunter Ch.2 "The Contract"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.3 "The Caddock lambs"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.4 "Lake Geneva"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.5 "The Refuse Barrel"
The Tuna Hunter Ch. 6 "The Labyrinth of Love"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.7 "Enter the Little Guys"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.8 "A Modest Gift"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.9 "Wewak"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.10 "A Taste of Papaya"
The Tuna Hunter Ch.11 "Stage One"
(to be continued - work in progress) Of Helicopters and Humans Of Helicopters and Humans (1): "Living in a Cubicle" YOO-HOO! keep scrolling down, there's more... Of Helicopters and Humans (2) "Nuthin' like a Good Hammer"
Of Helicopters and Humans (3) "A Right Smelly Git"
Of Helicopters and Humans (4) "A very nice Lady"
Of Helicopters and Humans (5) "Up to your Ass in Alligators"
Of Helicopters and Humans (6) "Homo Helicopterus Macho Maximus"
Of Helicopters and Humans (7) "The Road of Light"
Of Helicopters and Humans (8) "The Sports Section"
Of Helicopters and Humans (9) "Break Day"
Of Helicopters and Humans (10A) "Shillelaghs, hair-trigger tempers, and three...Greens?"
(to be continued - work in progress) "On Cops, good guys, and bad guys" (and the rest of us in between...) Cops & Robbers (1) "The Drive-by-Shooting" Boy! You don't quit easy, do ya...? Cops & Robbers (2) "A Lonely Cockpit"
Cops & Robbers (3) "The Murderer"
Cops & Robbers (4) "The Guinea Pig"
Cops & Robbers (5) "PCP Madness"
Cops & Robbers (6) "About to Fall of a Mountain"
Cops & Robbers (7A) "A Deadly Search"
Cops & Robbers (7B) "A Deadly Search (Part 2)"
Cops & Robbers (8A) "Spotlights and Bullets"
Cops & Robbers (8B) "Spotlights and Bullets (Part 2)"
Cops & Robbers (9) "High Noon at the Butler Corral" NEW 8/31/2012
Misc. Flying stories click on any link
Diary (1) "Over the waves, alone"
Diary (7) "Chopper Down"
Untold Stories of Vietnam (an experiment, where I wrote up the story told to me by a Vietnam Vet) (I would like to do that again... are you a Vietnam Vet with an untold story?) The Vietnam War Ch.1 "ATC Etiquette"
The Vietnam War Ch.2 "Chance Encounters"
(to be continued - work in progress) Skydiving in the old days (before Ram Air) Bird of Prey
The Expert
Poetry click on any link
The Blade of Damocles NEW 8/31/2012
I miss the Darkness of her Light
Exile
If you're good...
The Little Bird off Slea Head
A Quiet Song - Now we are free
"Other stuff"
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Tuna Conservation Articles:
Fishing Nations Spare Both Atlantic and Pacific Tuna
Other Tuna Links:
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Last edited by Francis Meyrick on November 21, 2012, 9:29 am
We little humans, hurtling through the Universe on our tiny, pale blue dot, will find few answers to Life's great mysteries. But we should at least find many of the questions. To write is to ask. To seek. To grope. With humility, and humor. Peace.
