Richard Hammond at the Robbie factory
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Richard Hammond at the Robbie factory
It's a hot August day in Torrance, Calif., south of Los Angeles, and Richard Hammond is having a very good time. He's busy shooting one of the episodes of Season 2 of his BBC America series "Richard Hammond's Crash Course," and he's getting to pitch in on the construction of one of his favorite things: a helicopter.
Link here.
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"James flies fixed-wing," Hammond says, "so he's very snobby about helicopters. Jeremy doesn't fly anything, so he's sniffy about flying in general. But we were over the east coast in the U.K., and it's a long drive home. I'd flown in, and they'd both driven.
"I dropped James off in London and Jeremy off in his garden. That shut them up. They haven't gone on about it since. They realized, that's it. It's quite useful."
"I dropped James off in London and Jeremy off in his garden. That shut them up. They haven't gone on about it since. They realized, that's it. It's quite useful."
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Flown both and can tell you that the 8KCAB Decathlon is definitely much more fun to fly than the R44.
Hmmm, OHAM, OCOK and if Jerremy had one would he call it an OJER?
Hmmm, OHAM, OCOK and if Jerremy had one would he call it an OJER?
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Battersea one would presume,
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Who indeed.
It's nothing to do with licence or number of engines; Battersea normally demands a higher level of experience that Hammond yet has, that's why I wondered where else he may have 'dropped James off'.
It's nothing to do with licence or number of engines; Battersea normally demands a higher level of experience that Hammond yet has, that's why I wondered where else he may have 'dropped James off'.
He could have been flying with his ex-instructor (who also did Hammond's Battersea sign-off on the flight).
Win, win, win.
We may be at risk of being in violent agreement; yes, he could have been with his ex-instructor, or me, or any of the hundreds of the pilots 'approved' to land at EGLW. My original question was 'where did he land', not 'how did he land at Battersea'...
