View Full Version : Chinook in the Mountains ......
hobie
22nd Nov 2005, 17:47
A recent clip from Siegnets Blog ...... what do you think?
http://blog.siegnet.us/vids/Exfill.wmv
360BakTrak
22nd Nov 2005, 17:58
I'm no expert but it looked quite impressive to me!
The Helpful Stacker
22nd Nov 2005, 18:09
Thats some impressive flying.
I saw an RAF Chinook do something similar on a NI hill site LP that was too small to take the whole aircraft, at night though.
:ooh:
My hat goes off to the rotary lads, as a non-flying type theirs appears to be truly the most difficult sort of flying to do.
Rakshasa
22nd Nov 2005, 19:10
heh, I was just looking at the squaddie and thinking "get the **** out of the downwash," and he did.
charliegolf
22nd Nov 2005, 20:16
Can't they all do that- the pilots, I mean?
CG
apache43
23rd Nov 2005, 03:24
As an ex-rotary type I was sure impressed. Good teamwork with the loadmaster who was guiding the pilot. Not a lot of clearance with the aft rotor tups and the dirt.
Did something similar with a UH-1 doing a rooftop insertion with some special ops boys. Had to put the port skid on the ledge of the roof whilst the lads hopped out. Big C of G change. Ah the gold old days!