Pretty Nifty, Impressive Helicopter Flying

[Patriot]

Let's Fly...

 

[7xray]

Wow. I'd hate to be flying with that guy doing bucket drops!

How many G's can you pull with a helicopter? Looks like there might have been a few negative ones too.

 

[Patriot]

Military Team Aerobatic Helicopters

 

[Duff]

That is Nuckin' Futs!

 

[SPORT]

WOW! That was so cool I'll say it backwards...WOW!

Very nice piloting!

 

[RsvlFeej]

My last job was poison peddler (pest control adviser) for row crops in the Salinas Valley. Had a couple of helicopter pilots who clipped sprinkler heads off if the farmer ran odd-length risers - the norm was 2 feet. With the pipe in the furrow, they were only sticking up about 20 inches.

One of the pilots knew it was time to quit when he noticed power lines on one end of a field he had just finished spraying - for the FIRST time as they were driving away. He'd subconsciously avoided them on each pass.

 

[wfooshee]

From last year's air show at Tyndall AFB near here in Panama City:



Sorry about the shaking near the end; my hand went to sleep and I was trying to hold the camera with my left hand to rest my right. Didn't manage it.

This, my friends, is helicopter flying. 360-degree rolls, loops, I think I saw a Cuban-8, vertical nose-up and vertical dive. All apparently on purpose.

 

[Checkswrecks]

I've picked up pieces from "flying" like this. Unless for a purpose (such as making an ad video) what I see is more along the lines of unnecessary risk than impressive skills. Even then, there was a homebuilt Midget Mustang that whacked a person off a horseback in Texas years ago. Oh, and the Vic Morrow film-set accident. Kind of like what we in motorcycle call "squidly" riding. It reminds me a lot of this one:



Having written that, the BO is an awesome little copter and one of the first to be able to go negative G. It can do more than in the video, by a LOT.

 

[fjrboomer]

All I can say is that is impressive but stupid. No margin for error left in that type of flying.

 

[TFC]

TC did all that stuff 20 yrs ago.

Is Island Choppers still around?

 

[CAJW]

I've picked up pieces from "flying" like this. Unless for a purpose (such as making an ad video) what I see is more along the lines of unnecessary risk than impressive skills. Even then, there was a homebuilt Midget Mustang that whacked a person off a horseback in Texas years ago. Oh, and the Vic Morrow film-set accident. Kind of like what we in motorcycle call "squidly" riding. It reminds me a lot of this one:

Roger that. The BO-105 is an awesome machine with tremendous handling and a bullet proof rotor system. Those "stunts" aren't part of the real flying world, but are interesting to watch. With over 500 EMS hours behind the stick of one of those, I can say that although never pushing one to near those limits, it was comforting in extreme turbulence to know she would hold together as long as you remained conscious to keep her flying!

 

[jdog109socal]

Im In. Where can i get a ride like that....

Jdog