Mel's plan is to purchase "The Vietnam Helicopter History CD-ROM"  from The VHPA
and make them available for sale at the Reunion; to the Attendees of the C/227th DC Reunion. 
All profits from the sales will go into the Reunion Hospitality Room Fund to help purchase Liquor/Wine/Beer/Sodas & Snacks for Everyone to enjoy while at the Reunion.
This is a Win-Win for both the C/227th Group & the VHPA
(Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association). 

Mel is also asking for some Volunteers interested to help with this endeavor, 
if you would like to help out, Please contact Mel at melcanon@yahoo.com 

The CD-ROM's will sell for $25.00 and if you are interested in purchasing
one or more please contact Mel Canon. 
We would like to get as many possible PRE-ORDERED 
so Mel will have an idea on how many CD's to obtain. 

Below you can read a description on this wonderful & informative CD-ROM!! 

Vietnam Helicopter History CD-ROM 
by Gary Roush, Database Committee 

The VHPA has a new product that is the result of over 15 years of work by
Gary Roush, Mike Law, Mike Sloniker and many others.
It contains history not available anywhere else including the very popular helicopter
incident and accident reports on nearly all of the 12,000 helicopters flown in the
Vietnam War from all services.

Do you only remember the last three of your tail number or bureau number?
With this CD you can search on last three to find the full tail number. 
Remember the call sign but not the unit? You can search units by call sign and vice versa.
Ever wonder when your unit did certain things? Many units have a list of historical events.
Wonder about the history and flight time of your unit helicopters? Get a list of helicopters
by unit and month to month gold book details on each helicopter. 
Wonder what happen to all the guys in your flight class? 
Get Army flight class lists with each members status as we know it today.

Would you like to know more about KIAs then what is in the membership directory?
Get complete helicopter flight crew KIA records. Can't remember what your MOS means?
Look it up in the MOS database containing Vietnam era records for Army, 
Marine, Air Force and Navy.
Making a trip to The Wall? Get a list of helicopter crew member KIAs by panel on
The Wall along with a list of events taking place in that same time period.

The CD also contains samples of video and audio from the Vietnam War taken from home 
movies and live recordings. Remember monitoring three radios plus intercom?
When you hear these recordings you will wonder how we did it. See burning Chinooks
at Cu Chi right after a sapper attack from live action taken by a super 8 movie camera.
Remember them? Also the CD contains 39 color helicopter pictures from past VHPA
calendars suitable for printing or as wall paper on your PC.

Get the full text with pictures of histories compiled by Mike Sloniker on Lam Son 719,
History of the 1972 Easter Offensive and this year's all new Helicopter Units North of
Da Nang. These histories contain first person accounts as well as back ground and details
about the activities of helicopter units normally left out of Vietnam War books.

Missing some past VHPA newsletters? The CD contains copies of nearly all VHPA newsletters
back to 1993.  Also, thanks to Leslie Hines, most of the Southern Cross publications from
the Americal Division are on this CD and are full text searchable.