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Sky Soldiers Cobra: Top Gear crash
Anybody with further info?
Edited to add, just learnt both crew OK and was being used in the filming of a "Top Gear Korea" program. |
Another case of a sudden onset of intense gravity???
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** Notice created 3/2/2012 Notice 1 ** ************************************************************ ******************** IDENTIFICATION Regis#: 197LE Make/Model: AH-1 Description: BELL HELICOPTER Date: 03/01/2012 Time: 1811 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Substantial LOCATION City: COOLIDGE State: AZ Country: US DESCRIPTION AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED A HYDCRAULIC FAILURE AND CRASHED INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0 # Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: OTHER DATA Activity: Business Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER FAA FSDO: SCOTTSDALE, AZ (WP07) Entry date: 03/02/2012 |
Cat's wait to hear Clarkeson's superlatives when this episode is released. |
Cobra Crash Arizona during filming Top Gear
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being used in the filming of a "Top Gear Korea" program. Glad they're OK. |
Both pilots ok is what matters, the cobra is obviously very good aircraft to crash in.
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oh I see what happened.....the mast fell out..... no wonder it crashed!!!! lucky crew - thank goodness. :E
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Top Gun Heli crash filmed from the Cockpit
See
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f70_1333743291 |
those Cobra's are build like tank :ok:
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Looking at the in-cockpit footage, there seems to be a recurring theme in these recent accidents on video!
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Recurring theme
That'd be the bit where it hits the ground.
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That'd be the bit where it hits the ground. I was referring to attempts to reverse the direction of travel, using a vertical manoeuvre, with insufficient height.... |
those Cobra's are build like tank http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1.../Coconutty.jpg |
They crashed very close (less than 150 ft in my estimation) and on a near direct track toward the main ground camera crew and production team.
The ground shot of the car at the beginning of the clip shows a black vehicle and a camera crane in the backgound, the same vehicle is pictured by the on board camera directly in front of the cobra as it hits. It is a very wide lens! Mickjoebill |
Originally Posted by 212man
(Post 7123346)
Looking at the in-cockpit footage, there seems to be a recurring theme in these recent accidents on video!
That is if the camera angle is not totally misleading. If not I have no idea how it should have sustained that apparent Angle of Bank without significant altitude loss!? I mean the cobra is not a sustained 9g machine... :E Besides that from the Cockpit video there seem to be no strange noises, nothing that would really point towards a mechanical failure. Hope to be proven wrong though. |
At the beginning of this tread it says "hydraulic failure" and if i recall properly the Cobra has the same head and blades and some other components and I assume the same kind of hydraulic systems the B214B and the B214ST have.
If you lose both hyd systems in those aircrafts every controls seize, not much you can do except go where ever the aircraft is going at the time of the malfunction. That is probably why you don't see any reactions from the pilot in the last moment. There is nothing he can do. JD |
If it's a standard Cobra with the Kaman blades, evidently one hydraulic system (of the two installed) isn't up to the job of keeping the blades where they should be.
This was found during testing by Bell of the Kaman blades, and accepted by the Army. At least that's what I remember hearing. |
fij
The Cobra head has absolutely no commanality with the 214B or 214ST. TC |
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