What's The Highest Altitude A Helo Has Flown To?
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Still a long way off 8,850m I say again why was it done secretly & only announced 1 month later? Reason; something to hide. The truth will set you free & never needs hiding
Something to hide? Maybe they thought permission would not be granted and did it in secret.
Sometimes that's the easier way to do it in some parts of the world.
Sometimes that's the easier way to do it in some parts of the world.
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Most likely, from what Ive heard about India you need to go thru red tape to have a crap..A B3 stripped to the bone, low gas with one pilot, ignore all limits apart from rotor droop, those altitudes must be possible...surely
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rotors88,
You may want to read Helicopter lands on top of Mt Everest before you make any more disparaging posts about the AS350B3 record, which has been homologated by the FAI
You may want to read Helicopter lands on top of Mt Everest before you make any more disparaging posts about the AS350B3 record, which has been homologated by the FAI
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Disparaging the 350B3; tsk no,no,no,no, its great machine which is slowly gaining popularity here in India. But ask the locals, the Nepalese & the Indian Pilots then you will find out that, that it is very doubtful to be achievable. Permission would have been granted,but was not asked for. Guinness book of records people were refused a presence at base camp & were denied a cigarette packet sized recording device to be placed on-board. Websites, stories, photo-shopped pictures can be produced to say & appear as anything. The proof would have been easy to deliver; permission, transparent operation, Guinness book of record & media presence, recording device, other machines circling & photographing, etc, etc, etc But none of that.................why? I say again simply they had something to hide 
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rotors88,
Maybe you should read my post again: you are disparaging the AS350B3 record, which has been ratified by the FAI.
Nothing to do with the Guiness Book of Records, nor the AS350B3 as a helicopter. Have you bothered to read the other thread about the actual event?
Maybe you should read my post again: you are disparaging the AS350B3 record, which has been ratified by the FAI.
Nothing to do with the Guiness Book of Records, nor the AS350B3 as a helicopter. Have you bothered to read the other thread about the actual event?
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Yes, yes read your post & have read all the guff on the Everest record & I believed it till I spoke with the locals, the Nepalese & Indian Pilots then changed my opinion on the case. Based on much more REAL proof that Eurocopter can never produce; the Everest landing simply did not happen 
Yes, yes read your post & have read all the guff on the Everest record & I believed it till I spoke with the locals, the Nepalese & Indian Pilots then changed my opinion on the case. Based on much more REAL proof that Eurocopter can never produce; the Everest landing simply did not happen
They are THE ones that have to do with aviation world records. On their website is this:
FAI is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautical world records.
Guinnes book of records has a different angle on records, one that has more to do with profit.
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I have a pic somewhere and will post it as soon as I can find it.
Its of the signature from the crew that did the flight in CPT.
It was a bit over 42.000 I recall.
Its much funnier flying at 1000 ft agl then 5000. Its scary :-)
I have a pic somewhere and will post it as soon as I can find it.
Its of the signature from the crew that did the flight in CPT.
It was a bit over 42.000 I recall.
Its much funnier flying at 1000 ft agl then 5000. Its scary :-)
To make it all the more exciting, the world altitude holder in his lama had an engine failure in the descent and iced up going completely IMC for something like 8 minutes before popping out of cloud in sight of the runway
To help with his ascent they removed everything that could be removed including the starter motor and replaced the doors with some lightweight plastic sheet weighing ounces... He had to endure temperatures down to -50 degrees
Whats Vmax for a lama @ 42000'...must be around 20 kts?
To help with his ascent they removed everything that could be removed including the starter motor and replaced the doors with some lightweight plastic sheet weighing ounces... He had to endure temperatures down to -50 degrees
Whats Vmax for a lama @ 42000'...must be around 20 kts?
