For the chopper Pilots who hijacked the thread you have to understand one fact. Flying helicopters is like masturbation, might be fun while your doing it but you don't tell your friends about it.

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We learnt to fly on fixed wing and then graduated to helicopters - sorry thread drift but it couldn't go unchallenged.

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Hit with some ROD and didn't slide far.

Hey Centaurus

Worth saying something after your comments about those Mk 30 Vampires going in with a Mach tuck.
Those accounts of pilots diving in with the stick hard back had me thinking when preparing to test a Vulcan at the corner of its manoeuvre boundary - 2.5g, 420 KIAS and 0.98 IMN. A little excursion over 0.98 and we lost control as it pitched down with two pilots now pulling the stick hard back against the stops. I warned the crew that we were about to go under with relaxed back stick to come up the other side and a roll to right way up. Fortunately increasing air density gave us back some elevator control and the means to recover without negative g. Max IMN observed was 1.04+.

Yeah but unlike masturbation, not everyone is born with the skills required to fly a helicopter.

So we send them to FW...

Good photo there BA. Looks like she hit pretty hard and bounced and ended up there. Appears to be a distinctive engine and wing marks at the first impact point. Wouldn't have wanted to be in it.

Great shot of the scene. Looks like the ditch and the fence gave it a good rattle. Good chance it was reasonbly intact before them. The impact divit looks very wings level. 10/10 for neat and tidy. Either way to eject or not, it must be a real rush to experience it. After all the noise of the hasty departure it would be very quiet under that GQ roundie.
FH

Who was it that said "Never fly an aircraft whose wings move faster than the fuselage"?

Helicopters are for people who like to hover, and hovering is for people who like to fly but don't have anywhere to go......;)

Great pic of the site BA, really tells the impact story :ooh:

Now where can I source one of those seats for my PC12.......:E

God yr brave 'Jamair':E

'Snoozer' actually the wings of a plane move faster than the fuse many times during flight :ok:Especially in a V tail Bonanza where they are all over the sky like a mad Dr:E

'Brian' I think yr pix explains it all, tnxs for the shot:ok:


Wmk2

Don't have a nosebleed there Wally :E day VFR only for that particular gig :p

Its the good Jaba I gots ta take me hat off to, jeez he's doin some serious night & IF in the Retard Vehicle :ooh:

Probably Peter Plonker the Poofy Plank Pilot!!:)

Don't knock choppers. How would a fixed wing have dropped me off at the in-laws 2 acre block a couple of weeks back???

PS: AWESOME AWESOME MACHINE, EX Vietnam Job.

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................easy 'xxx' just open da door & push yuz out!:E Emphasis on the 'drop':ok: Anyway so 'xxx' what's wif da Australian Ultralight Federation doin' usin' proper heli's?:)
We all better get back to the topic or the Mod/s will have another dummy spit:E

Wmk2

RAA must have been taken.

Sorry, can't help myself. All it needs is the machine guns.

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