Trying to locate an old helicopter flying video
 

Hello

Been quite a few years since i've been here! I saw a video on here, years and years ago, which involved a pilot flying a helicopter, in the 60s / 70s, in I think Brazil?

It shows him flying the helicopter through a tunnel, really low over the city, then I think it finished with him over the beach? If I'm not mistaken I think it was Rio he was flying over. However can't quite remember.

Does it ring a bell with anyone? The stand out was it had lots of low level flying in it.

And finally. I managed to find it:

Ridiculous
 

Any air law in Rio?

Welcome back Paul! Yup, that was a good one!

Any background to the story? Who was the pilot, why (apart from for the hell of it, of course). Looks like he arrives to some sort of party at the end?

The pilot is Antônio Carlos Nascimento, standing in for the singer Roberto Carlos. The flight in Hughes HS-269D PT-HAZ took place on a Sunday morning in 1967.

http://culturaaeronautica.********.c...ventura-o.html


Edit: Can't get the link to work. Google 'cultura aeronautica roberto carlos' to find the article.

The pilot had permission from the CAA and the Rio prefecture.

Nice, time to ask to do the same in London. Who's in?

patowalker,

You’ve found a well known PPRuNe dislike of a certain URL, which is easily circumvented by using a URL shortener: Cultura Aeronáutica: Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura: o helicóptero que passou dentro de um túnel no Rio de Janeiro

Many thanks I42. Pprune wouldn't even allow me to spell out the word outside the link.

Thanks Joe 90. I'm still making computer games and this video always struck me as having lots of video game material in it. Have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to go back and raid it.

Yeah, I remember the Joe 90 days fondly... I'm more the Six Million Dollar Man now!

Is that because of the bionic implants or the slo mo?

Best wishes Pilot DAR. I hope your recovery is going to plan.

Ah, it's both! Stainless steel and titanium, and I now move very slowly!

I know this one, you're fine as long as you don't fall into the smelting pot at an ironworks...

Holidayed in Rio in 2002 and walked through one of the tunnels leading from Copacabana, but not that one. Ours was at the Leme end of the beach and was much bigger; thinking back you could easily have flown a '269 through it.

When I was being trained in the MD500, we were passing over a forested area, with a river under the canopy. My instructor pointed down to the riverbank, visible between the trees, and said: "I want to get out there". The exercise was for me to find a hole in the canopy up the river, and fly under the canopy to the requested exit spot. It is spooky flying under something!