Travel Bug Dog Tag Pull Pitch

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Released:
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Origin:
California, United States
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Pull Pitch is on a mission to see anything and everything to do with helicopters around the world. Please take him with you wherever you go, but try to get pictures of him with different helicopters. He would love to go flying in some helicopters as well.

For those who don't know, "Pull Pitch" is helicopter pilot lingo. When you pull up on the collective control lever in the helicopter (The one that makes you go up and down) it increases the "Pitch" or angle of the main rotor blades collectively (hence the name collective and not 'Up-Down stick' ha ha), therfore causing the helicopter to become airborne provided you have sufficiant rotor RPM. So when a pilot is talking about lifting off, he might say "I'm gonna pull pitch". Because as you "Pull" up on the collective, you increase "Pitch". So that's where my Travel Bug got it's name. Just thought I'd clarify that:-)

About This Item

This is the new Pull Pitch TB.

This TB is a replacement of the original Pull Pitch wich sadly had an engine failure and after a failed autorotation, crashed into the unknown about a year ago. Or in other words, he was placed into a cache wich was stolen or otherwise disappeared, taking my very first TB along with it. Therefore after waiting a year for the original to show up and all evidence pointing to the fact that he is gone for good, I decided to use the "Copy" tag and attach it to another helicopter and send it on it's way hoping it will have better luck in actually getting more than 23 miles from home:-)

I am a licensed commercial helicopter pilot. One with insufficient hours to get a job flying, but got the license. ha ha I sell Helicopter posters at www.GotHelicopters.com

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Write note 11/15/2008 Barnacle Scraper posted a note for it   Visit Log

We didn't see the blue Pull Pitch in the Retired Mail Carrier GC144qt cache.
Discovered It 7/16/2008 DJ PEP discovered it   Visit Log

Good news...the original Pull Pitch lives! My daughter and I found it in the Washington Creek Cache GC10DPY and it is in great condition! I will pass it along after taking a few pictures of it!
Dropped Off 11/23/2007 pakrat0420 placed it in Retired Mail Carrier Arizona - 16.85 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/18/2007 pakrat0420 retrieved it from We're Feeling Regular Arizona   Visit Log

team white cache retrieved it... movin the tag
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Dropped Off 11/2/2007 Barnacle Scraper placed it in We're Feeling Regular Arizona   Visit Log

Pull Pitch is back in cache We're Feeling Regular." Pull Pitch had a great adventure thanks to AZ Department of Public Safety helicopter pilot Matt U.!

Matt wrote:

"Little Travel Bug Helicopter.

Oct 22, 2007. Went with Native Air from Mesa to San Carlos, AZ to pick up a heart patient and fly him back to Phoenix. Not much to see, it was a night flight.

Oct. 25th, 2007: Spent the day with the Arizona Dept of Public Safety helicopter.
In the morning we assisted the SWAT team as they executed a search warrent. We provided aerial coverage and used our camera and microvave downlink to let the ground crews see the pictures from the sky. We were also there for medical, in case anything bad happened.

Later in the day we flew the area from Florence to Oracle Junction to look for a man in a truck that was missing. He has Alzheimers and may be lost. While we were searching, he was found in the Globe area, so we went back to base.

We did another SWAT mission later that night in Maricopa and then we were done for the night. Another great day flying over beautiful Arizona.

Matt"

  • Pull Pitch in AZ Pull Pitch on duty with AZ Department of Public Safety.
  • Pull Pitch in AZ Pull Pitch on duty with AZ Department of Public Safety (2).
  • Pull Pitch in AZ Pull Pitch on duty with AZ Department of Public Safety (3).
  • Pull Pitch in AZ Pull Pitch on duty with AZ Department of Public Safety (4).
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/21/2007 Barnacle Scraper retrieved it from We're Feeling Regular Arizona   Visit Log

Being a pilot, it is cool to have our first experience with a TB to be with one that is also a flyer. I don't fly helicopters though, so will get some help from a DPS pilot regarding a copter adventure for Pull Pitch.
Dropped Off 10/20/2007 zeeks2 placed it in We're Feeling Regular Arizona   Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/13/2007 zeeks2 retrieved it from We're Feeling Regular Arizona   Visit Log

We will see what we can do for this TB. We talked over a few ideas before taking him, but one thing is for sure he is on the move.
Dropped Off 10/9/2007 GT500 placed it in We're Feeling Regular Arizona - 276.8 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/30/2007 GT500 retrieved it from The House that Grandpa Built Utah   Visit Log

Picking back up.
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