What's the max groundspeed you did with a helicopter?
Statute of Limitations has run out.....102Knots...running takeoff in a CH-47B.
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I managed (and have this recorded on GPS), a ground speed of 134kts in a Hughes 300 almost a year ago. Wellington were telling the Qantas chaps it was 37G45 on the ground...
I'd like to see a Chinook doing 102kts on the ground though, was that a wheelie?
I'd like to see a Chinook doing 102kts on the ground though, was that a wheelie?
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I wont say where it was but i remember descending to the immediate right of a motorbike going flat out on a straight stretch of moorland road.....only to gently pull along his right hand side and watch in amusement as he looked across and began to slow down thinking we were "old bill" or something, before we began waving and slowly picking up speed climbing away in laughter.........Damn love to find that biker again and find out what he thought
212 Kts in a Lynx, (minus TOW Booms), downwind, in a Valley not far from Aviemoor one dark and very windy night in July 1994. Achieved this speed about 2/3rds of the way along the valley and continued to hold in excess of 200 Kts before being spat out of the valley at the far end. My eyes were bigger than my NVG by the time we got out and decided against a repeat performance. 
The two following crews also reported ground speeds in excess of 200 Kts.
The two following crews also reported ground speeds in excess of 200 Kts.
Lynx....not so much a wheelie but darn sure raised some eyebrows as the Old Girl thundered by with her chinny chin chin on the ground and her skirt flying in the breeze! Don't know how fast we really got to....but began the rotation after we passed 100kts.
Landings at speeds like that were true Wheelies!
Land Ops pale when compared to water ops!
Landings at speeds like that were true Wheelies!
Land Ops pale when compared to water ops!
187kts g/s with an airspeed of 138 kts S & L in a 500D. Still late home, dont know what was worse the wife shouting on the car journey to the theatre or her exceeding 120mph ( most definitly groundspeed)as we were late.
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265 knots in the XH-59 ABC with a 20 knot tail wind. Wild ride, with 2 jets screaming and the rotor in autorotation. Time from standing still to 2000 feet at 150 knots was about 20 seconds!
Originally Posted by NickLappos
265 knots in the XH-59 ABC
But FWIW, 220kts in a 109 with a little bit of a tailwind, and 201kts once in a BK117: now that was a bit interesting
What Nick didn’t tell you was that it shook like the proverbial out house once above 200 KIAS. In all other respects it provided a pretty good adrenalin rush. Definitely an E ticket ride.