Helicopter Display
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Though we did have an alternative display team called the Blue wheel barrows, just as much ego and pie fed pilots but, in the wheel barrows, It wasn't a huge success as the display was best viewed from the air, where as apparently anything in the air is best viewed from a bunker some miles away!
The blue wheel barrows hahahaha - I hope they were painted in the proper colours, flying jackets, silk scarves and goggles.
Liam
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I watched a heli doing manoeuvres like that once at a private strip not that far from home, he was flying a R22 and his tail rotor had failed, give the guy his due, he got it on the deck the right way up, shut it down and walked away, he sold his R22 shortly after that and bought a Rotorway Exec, oh and a new pair of shreddies
i saw the red bull helicopter display in italy this year, loop the loops, stall turns, barrel rolls all in a helicopter.... amazing !!
check it out !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=pdprMRMjs1c&feature=fvwp
check it out !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=pdprMRMjs1c&feature=fvwp
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Robbi, I'd never have beleived that was possible in a whirly bird!
They tell me it's hard enough to fly one straight, kind of like rubbing your tummy and patting your head.
Liam
They tell me it's hard enough to fly one straight, kind of like rubbing your tummy and patting your head.
Liam
LOL. There's a saying that sums it up:
"Helicopter pilots are different, because helicopters are different. An airplane WANTS to fly; and it WILL fly unless seriously interfered with by an inept pilot.
But a helicopter pilot must hold his aircraft in the air against all laws of nature and physics."
Hahahahaha I like that Santaman2000.
I'm not afraid of flying, but I've been in cars that have broken down...
It's terra firma for me, the firmer the better and less terror.
Liam
I'm not afraid of flying, but I've been in cars that have broken down...
It's terra firma for me, the firmer the better and less terror.
Liam
Very skilful... I'd love to have a go at flying a helicopter but have never stumped up the cash for a trial lesson (and don't really like the look of the R22 - perhaps I should save up for a Gazelle )
)- perhaps I should save up for a Gazelle
Cant help with the Gazelle, but this could be fun
http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/IN...yID=uW7AqBELbsEAAAD_vUBpc4dn&JumpTo=OfferListVery skilful... I'd love to have a go at flying a helicopter but have never stumped up the cash for a trial lesson (and don't really like the look of the R22 - perhaps I should save up for a Gazelle
Friend of mine is on his second. They are lovely, and the running cost per hour isn't as bad as you might think. A lot less than a Jetranger in his experience.
Alright, you can't use it for work because it's a permit machine, so it's just a toy, but blimey, what a toy.
Had a ride in a Gazelle when I applied to join the Army Air Corps before University - none of this 500' feet from vehicle/vessel/person or structure nonsense - real hedge hopping it was!
Also had a jaunt in a Huey with the Luftwaffe through the Alps - awesome
Also had a jaunt in a Huey with the Luftwaffe through the Alps - awesome
Thankfully rule 5 for helicopters has changed now, we are no longer bound by the 'land clear' rule. Although I'm firmly in the 'airspeed is life, height is insurance' camp.
Jealous about the Huey, I'd love to get one of those old warbirds into my logbook.
I had a ride up the mountains in a Scout (Army Air Corps) ...sitting in the back with the doors off, legs hanging over the Cairngorms and the Larry Groo (as we called it - scary enough for me!
Good machine the scout. Unless the engine quits. The guy who does my LPC every year says it's the scariest autorotation on the planet. It just goes down like a streamlined anvil. Lord knows, he's flown pretty much everything in the inventory, so I trust his opinion. I'd still love some time in one though, some real old school engineering and then some.
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