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Know Roy Heibel, Trans-quebec Helicopter Pilot?

twinstar_ca said:
the bad guys in birds of prey flew a lama... it was a great movie... :up:

on a more serious note, i've been reading this thread with rapt eyes and have to say that all of you have stories that no movie or novel could ever do justice to... and it makes me think that the way you are sharing with TQniece says loads of the kind of people you are and how you felt about her uncle... very, very classy comes to mind...

cap, i've never met you other than on here, but you sir, have my deepest respect for what you have accomplished and endured...
I'll second that.
 
Just had a most pleasant conversation with transquebecniece about Roy.
Any further input would be most welcome.
This has been a wonderfull diversion from the stuff we have been seeing of late on the helicopters site. Thanks to all.
Cheers
Sharkbait
PS Happy Rememberance Day all. They shall not grow old.
 
Ok then, you want humour. Roy didn't tell that many jokes, so they are easy to remember for me and were all told late at night when I was trying to close the "peepers":

A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey.
He orders a drink and while he's drinking it,
the monkey jumps aound all over the place.
The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and
eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and
eats them, then jumps up on the pool table,
grabs the cue ball, sticks it in his mouth and
swallows it whole.

The bartender screams at the guy, "Did you see
what your monkey just did?"

The guy says, "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball
off my pool table, whole!", says the bartender. "Yeah,
that doesn't surprise me", replied the patron. "He eats everything
in sight, the little ba*tard. I'll pay for the cue ball and
stuff". He finishes his drink, pays his bill and leaves.

Two weeks later, he's in the bar again and he has his
monkey with him. He orders a drinkand the monkey starts
running around the bar again. While the man is drinking
his drink, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar.
He grabs it, sticks it up his ass, pulls it out and eats it.

The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey
did now?", he asks.

Now what?", responds the patron. "Well he stuck a maraschino
cherry up his ass, then pullled it out and ate it!" says the barkeeper.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me", replied the patron. "He still eats everything
in sight, but ever since he ate the cue ball, he measures everything first!"
 
Hahahaha; I'm wiping the coffee off my chin, Cap! That's a good one for a "This guy enters a bar..." joke! Always nice to start the day laughing. Jokes flew all over our house when I was a kid and family was all together. Roy wasn't the biggest joke-teller in the clan...but when he came out with one, we knew it had to be pretty darn good for him to give it the time of day. It is his mother, my Grandma, who is the queen of jokes and at 98, she can still drop you to your knees in stitches. His brothers could, too. Imagine him being the youngest and growing up in that crowd! Just like my youngest son with three big brothers: he's more content to be an observer in the circus around him but when he does speak, we all chuckle. You can only take so much of that stuff in before the insanity starts spreading. And when they were all together trying to one-up each other, you didn't stand a chance of keeping your composure. They wouldn't let you. I remember trying to eat holiday dinners with tears gushing down my face. Oh man. Hard to breathe at times like that, let alone eat! Thanks for the first laugh-o-the-day.

Enjoyed talking with you, Sharkbait. I have been thinking that you seem so familiar for some time now, but it's Roy I also hear in you. Clearly he rubbed off on you somehow just a little. I can see why you were friends. Love the stories and remembrances. Soak up the sun and give auntie a squeeze. She tops Roy's mom by two years...wow...what a life! I will look forward to chats for years to come, I hope! And I am not surprised a bit that you met Roy "playing in the dirt and water." I'm hoping others will share what they remember from that first time they met him.

And I wanted, too, to wish a Happy Veteran's/Rembrance Day to all on board. Sharkbait and I were talking about the orange paper poppies that are apparently still handed out in Canada, but it's been quite a long time since I've seen them in the U.S. The VFW used to hand them out all over town on Veteran's Day, but I don't seem them anymore. Wonder what ever happened to that tradition here? Anyone know?

A Veteran's/Rembrance Day poem for you, my friends, from one of Canada's own:

In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
-Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Royal Canadian Medical Corps,
died of pneumonia 1918

Never forget.
 
i also hope everyone took some time yesterday and remembered the sacrifices that were made for us to enjoy our freedoms...

my latest funny i heard was...

guy walks into a bar and sits down orders a beer. tells the 'tender he just had a nasty fight with the missus. the bartender says jeez, that's tough, how did it end.. the guy sez well when it was over she was on her hands and knees.. really, sez the bartender, what was she saying... the guy replies, she said come out from under the bed, you little chickens**t!!! :wacko:
 
Apparently I was booted from CAaviation.com forums recently, so I am so relieved to see these posts are here now. I was ill when I thought I'd lost these wonderful, endearing and enlightening conversations! Roy was an American citizen who served in Vietnam and then found himself living, working, playing and dying in Canada...a country he grew to love. I'm hoping his Canadian buddies will still visit me here on the U.S. forum and I'm hoping to rope in some U.S. Army or American pilots who might have known Roy as well. I should probably change this thread to Roy Heibel, Air America Pilot, but I'm hoping my fellow countrymen will understand. I'm an eternal optimist and I know everything happens for a reason, so maybe getting booted off CAaviation was for a good reason that I'm unaware of yet!

I've been reading A LOT, thanks to everyone's recommendations. But I wanted to share an odd thing that happened to me at a book store tonight. I was actually there to see if they showed a copy of Air America (Christopher Robbins) in their database, and while the clerk was searching, I picked up a copy of Covert Ops by James E. Parker, Jr. Just killing time waiting, I began flipping through the Index and lo and behold, in the H section of the Index, there was Roy Heibel! Apparently on pages 151-153 of the book. I was so startled I dropped my keys. And, of course, I bought the book. And I'm not going to cheat, so don't anyone tell me what's on those pages. I want to read the book honestly---from cover to cover---so I can enjoy it in its proper context!

Well, it's good to be home again. And I'm forever grateful to my newfound CAaviation buddies!
 
i'm sorry to hear you were ill, tqniece, but great to have you back among us...

many changes on our forums over the last few days... we're still waiting to see how it all plays out...
 
There you are, twinstar! I was "ill" figuratively speaking; thought I'd lost all of these threads forever. Maybe ill wasn't the best word; more like angry and panicked. I was actually buried by work and shocked to see the changes to CAaviation. What's behind all that? The links aren't working well enough to try and decipher the changes. Are these two forums moderated by the same bunch? Are they gatewayed to each other or do they stand alone? Hmmm, kind of confusing...Anyway, hope you're well and getting in the holiday spirit!
 
Now don't I feel stupid (again). CAaviation is up and running and works beautifully and we're still there, too, with this thread! I wasn't "booted off" after all! Thanks Kyle on the CA side! Woo-hoo. Hope you'll check out both websites from time to time. I am grateful to have access to both the US and the Canadian forum and the ability to communicate with the wonderful pilots on both sides of the border who may have known Roy. I'm a lucky girl and life is good...
 
The two site running side by side have been a tad confusing.

:elvis:
 
On an added note TQniece have You printed all the posts in case all is lost?
 

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