Sez the man who, when he went flying in his airplane, needed to start the checklist 48 hours before going wheels in the well.... Or however long it takes to get a BUFF in the air from cold iron. Probably need a hand truck to carry the pre-start checklist out to the aircraft...

Our new Huey (The UH-1Y) is probably less than 30 minutes cold iron to daylight under the skids. But I don't know for sure -- I was only around them in RDT&E, not operationally. The TH-57 was like a car -- kick the tires (skids, actually ...) and light the fires, baby.

But I think Harry Reasoner put it best ...
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