Most unusual application for a helicopter?
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Wowsers - some great responses! I guess there is always a tendancy to try to put the heli to use, whether or not the idea is sensible 
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Howabout most awkward load carried?
Mart
...Howabout most awkward load carried?
Mart
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From: Propping up bars in the Lands of D H Lawrence and Bishop Bonner
The most awkward load I've carried was a friend of mine (still is!) who is also a driving instructor. After complaining that a Schweizer wasn't very fast and couldn't we go to Le Touquet for lunch, I said to myself, Practice Autorotation GO!
That shut up her up!
Cheers
Whirls
That shut up her up!
Cheers
Whirls
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From: Monterrey Mexico
How about
Looking for a lost Dog. Somone hired a friend of mine just to look for a lost Dog. My friend even told the owner it was going to be very difficult to recover the dog using a helicopter on the city, but the guy was reluctant and say he did not care and paid up front.
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From: Downeast
Awkward Load....nothing more awkward than having an FAA Inspector and a NTSB Accident Investigator riding with you...with the company Chief Pilot sat in the back discussing your flying.
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From: Alles über die platz
Unusual maybe, but useful, certainly. The ground handling handle on the tail of a Gazelle.
In company with a shovel and a 'loo roll', probably the best exercise dump position going!
Most awkward load, well.....Dartmoor/Salisbury Plain 1996......full compo rations for 2 weeks, say no more!!!
On a par with the Commons Defence Select Comittee.
In company with a shovel and a 'loo roll', probably the best exercise dump position going!
Most awkward load, well.....Dartmoor/Salisbury Plain 1996......full compo rations for 2 weeks, say no more!!!
On a par with the Commons Defence Select Comittee.
awfull load alright!! She would come under the very scary loads and butt ugly!!! better you than me!!Joined: Dec 2004
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From: USA
Somewhere in Germany there's a pilot who had a dead cow tossed from his helicopter
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From: South West
SAR flight at Culdrose picked up daisy the cow from the bottom of a cliff a few years back, initially winched a vet down who sedated her and then underslung in a net back to safety.
I have delivered santa a couple of times, nearly chucked his sack of goodies through the main disc when he was on his way out though!!
I have delivered santa a couple of times, nearly chucked his sack of goodies through the main disc when he was on his way out though!!
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From: Florida
I've done frost patrol in a 500 over avacado trees.
There was a time when I was hired to look for someone's lost dog.
Another time I was hired to look for a gang of white line painters who had apparently stolen some guys wifes handbag. (I didn't ask - I just flew)
I've also gone out and looked for crashed radio controlled planes - some were found some weren't.
And I also remember having a guy phone up and wanting to drop 10,000 ping pong balls over a crowd at a skateboard competition. We politely refused that one!
There was a time when I was hired to look for someone's lost dog.
Another time I was hired to look for a gang of white line painters who had apparently stolen some guys wifes handbag. (I didn't ask - I just flew)
I've also gone out and looked for crashed radio controlled planes - some were found some weren't.
And I also remember having a guy phone up and wanting to drop 10,000 ping pong balls over a crowd at a skateboard competition. We politely refused that one!
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From: Downeast
Well....there was a period of time in Iran when we devoted some amount of time tracking down homemade hot air balloons made from survival blankets and sterno cans filled with jet fuel and petrol mix. All were launched at night....and drifted around creating who knows what kind of thoughts in the local's minds!
The MK 93 seemed to be the best configuration for distance and height....if that suggests how much flight time was consumed in the project which was done covertly....after the nightly round of Uckers.
The MK 93 seemed to be the best configuration for distance and height....if that suggests how much flight time was consumed in the project which was done covertly....after the nightly round of Uckers.
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From: Asia
RIP
On more than one occasion I was sent out to sprinkle a deceased’s ashes over what had been their favourite stretch of sea.
It took a couple of goes before we were able to work out how to do it without the ashes blowing back into the cabin.
It took a couple of goes before we were able to work out how to do it without the ashes blowing back into the cabin.
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From: UK
For pretty polly we hung a 80' poster under a AS355 showing a couple of legs in tights, whilst a 206 flew around it in order to film it.
I believ something similar is being done at the moment over London by Cabair
I believ something similar is being done at the moment over London by Cabair