#2575551 - 08/27/08 03:00 AM
Re: Serious helicopter close call
[Re: Abledog]
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Skater
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Notice the damage to the tail rotor. I am surpised the tail boom did not break away or bend upward into the rotor disc (catastrophic).
Amazing footage.
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#2575595 - 08/27/08 05:09 AM
Re: Serious helicopter close call
[Re: Skater]
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Goodwood
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Looks like he caught a gust of wind over the fantail at the precise moment of liftoff. Bad luck, definitely, and it could have been a lot worse (like, for example, if the ship was just cresting a wave and the gust had been just a bit harder).
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#2575697 - 08/27/08 12:06 PM
Re: Serious helicopter close call
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do what? what exactly are "insane conditions"? Ive heard of IMC and VMC but never Insane :lol: insane flying conditions include conditions when the helicopter is barely able to be kept on the deck even with the skids in netting and the engine at minimal/no power, like in this video.. just plain stupid. there better have been a medical emergency or something to prompt that stunt.
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#2575704 - 08/27/08 12:31 PM
Re: Serious helicopter close call
[Re: Goodwood]
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Looks like he caught a gust of wind over the fantail at the precise moment of liftoff. Bad luck, definitely, and it could have been a lot worse (like, for example, if the ship was just cresting a wave and the gust had been just a bit harder). Gust of wind for sure but I didn't hear any increase in rpm for it to be taking off. Couple the gust of wind as the stern was dropping.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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