European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes july Crews glad uh60s Are flying again by Ellen Ridge staff writer aviators and flight crewmen in Europe have expressed Confidence in the army decision to Ungrund the uh60 Black Hawk which was involved in two crashes that killed i 5 soldiers just before its in not really said chief warrant offi cer Ken Gillis of the co 8th combat aviation in in if you worried about them falling you  be with All the and smarties Back in the you have to have Faith in these said chief warrant officer Art Baessler of the 421st medevac unit in stationed at Wiesbaden where the first european test flight since the ung rounding was is among the first pilots in Europe to Fly the modified Black As an instructor he has already put in 15 hours of flying in the modified he will be spending another six hours flying with each Pilot he re certifies for Black Hawk since the ung rounding we Haven really changed i want worried about flying it Gillis army aviation experts began to review Black Hawk operations following a March 13 Freak Accident at fort that killed All 12 soldiers Acci Dent investigators pinned the cause of the Accident on a problem unrelated to the the absence of a Bolt apparently caused the flight controls to since the Black Hawks have been involved in 23 fatal accidents accounting for 37 the fort Bragg crash was followed by another Acci Dent at fort that claimed three the next 630 uh60 Black Hawks were grounded until the army found the cause of the Acci two months officials announced the Black Hawk Fleet would begin flying after repairing and refitting of the aircraft main Rotor Blade which was blamed for the fort Rucker according to Kenneth usar eur Force modernization aviation two Black Hawks have taken to the air since the mid june decision to Ungrund the another is being tested and is expected to go up any Day army officials said half the Fleet should be operating by Stein said he expects All 125 Black Hawks in Europe to be flying missions by the end of but some aviators believe that is an optimistic considering Progress so the first european test flights have gone off without any serious Stein the Wiesbaden flight Crew members affirmed that saying they photo by Ellen Ridge Crew chief Jonathon Cox standing and staff Gerd Kiggen inspect a uh60 Black had expected More glitches in the system since the helicopters sat Idle so there Black Hawks like a car they work better if there kept flying rather than Gillis 4 Gregory Crew chief for the first Black Hawk test said he want sure the helicopter needed to be grounded in the first he said he didst believe the whole Fleet should have been grounded just for one co e Crew chief Jonathon Cox said he want bothered about flying in the Black As much work As we did on that you know it Cox who has not piloted a modified Black Hawk was not As enthusiastic about the Black Hawk As the Wiesbaden were aware of what was wrong and feel the sys tem is Good and going to hopefully they will resolve the problem and you wont be the unfortunate individual to pay the Baessler when the grounding of the Black Hawk was army officials said a Metal tie Rod would be inserted inside the spindles to strengthen that link Between the Rotor Blade and the in the aircraft was inspected for cracks and serviceability by flight Crews and technical Stein said the modifications on the Black Hawk will run for just the Rod exactly who will pay for the work the army or Sikorsky air the manufacturer has not been during the two months the helicopters were aviators spent much of their time in ground while the aviators were brushing up on their Black Hawk technicians performed extensive flight control inspections of the German professor examines american views by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau chief Germany in aus according to Rudge the last bus leaves at 11 Kunow says something about How americans View their after 11 he you Are free to get Home any Way you Kunow could be taken for a tenured professor at the University of California at he despite his very Ameri can Way of which includes phrases such As you betcha his office is in a Small suite of rooms facing a Glass framed courtyard off the main where scraps of paper pinned to a bulletin Board announce classes and other events for students enrolled in Wuerzburg University College of humanities English there Are no americans but americanisms Kunow and Frank Dietz Are two of they teach courses in american literature and culture to their German and they have a few words to say about How germans View american Independence Dietzs office Walls Are covered with posters bearing american themes and to one spoofs the University of Texas at Austin where Dietz met the woman who became his another shows a breathtaking Panorama of the grand and another is a Takoff of Grant Woods painting american Goth with puppets Kermit the Frog hold ing the Pitchfork and miss Piggy wearing the wire rimmed the rest of the posters feature knows and Dietzs favorite Hobby one striking Silhouette shows a 19thcen Tury Union Pacific steam engine and Coal on one of his trips to the United Kunow met a Man who talked with him about the German Railroad Kunow asked Why Doest America nationalize its railroads the Man appeared shocked and that would be socialism that Kunow we germans have had nationalized railroads and Medicine since 19thcen Tury German Chancellor Otto von Bis and he was no Kunow said germans look to authority As something to be obeyed and As a place to go when the individual citizen is in trouble a Stern but protective father american Freedom grew out of revolution against he in Ger Freedom Means Equality for every he added in there is a Universal demand for individual Freedom to be left alone and to suffer i know a family who had to sell their Home to raise Money for a relative who needed medical that would never happen in Kunow said he sees this difference in his who Are flabbergasted to find out that american students must pay to go to it costs a semester in administrative fees to go to the University of Kunow in students who pay their own Way through College have the Freedom to starve for their this idea of he is often detrimental to the com menting on president reagans insistence on cutting welfare Kunow said that such cuts in similar programs in Ger Many would be met with much greater resistance than in what he Doest said is that when he asks germans to follow his economic they can Only shrug their shoulders and wonder if Hes what he Doest understand is that even the staunchest German conservative is More Liberal than the american both Dietz and Kunow agree that free Dom is relative to for the most each country they say obey the but its usually the Law of their own for Kunow he finds it humorous to see american soldiers at the rail Road stations drinking schnapps out of bottles wrapped in paper in the it is often illegal to drink in but its perfectly Normal Here in Germany you dont have to hide the Dietz pointed out that conflicts Between Large concentrations of troops in a Host Community and local residents have Al ways caused and the situation is not unique to troops in any Large concentration of Young men in any Community has the potential for he we germans have similar problems with our soldiers stationed in Al Kunow said that most germans recognize american Independence Day As a National but they have trouble equating it to their own Ger Many Doest really have an Independence Day As Dietz after such Days were eliminated from our Cal Kunow said june 17 is the closest thing germans have to a National that was when workers in East Germany re belled against soviet occupation in 1953 and were suppressed by soviet u but its not really the he its a very somber Holiday because it represents a to most its just another Day off from