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Prep for shipping helicopters.


Preparing for a deployment, desert or otherwise? Protect your Black Hawk's AN/APR-39 antennas before you shrink shrink Vox populi noun A psychiatrist  wrap them.

Shrink wrapping a Black Hawk Black Hawk

(born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va.—died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S.) Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831.
 is very heat intensive. Shrink wrap melts the antenna material as it seals. You won't won't  

Contraction of will not.


won't will not
won't will
 see the damage until the bird gets to its final destination and the shrink wrap is removed.

A way to save your front and rear antennas from damage due to melting is to place an 8-oz wax paper--not plastic--cup over all four of them and tape 'em down.

YOU'RE you're  

Contraction of you are.


you're you are
you're be
 ABOUT TO GET SHRINK-WRAPPED AND YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT WITH THESE PAPER CUPS?

COVER MY ANTENNAS! PROTECT 'EM FROM THE HEAT!!

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Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Date:Oct 1, 2005
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