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Real or Fake?
A group of helo guys are of the belief it's real, but I remain to be convinced. What sayest the esteemed brethren?
Any details on the story behind the video would be appreciated.
Any details on the story behind the video would be appreciated.
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I've head some NWS Severe Weather training and I know that tornados are totally not predictable. There can be 150Kph winds on the ground and almost calm at 25M up- or there can be several hundred Kph winds a half kilometer is every direction- up, down, rotating, rolling, with attached vortices going in several directions at once. And it can change from one to the other over a dozen seconds. "Rope" tornados like in the Vid shown usually don't have high winds far from the funnel itself, only very close to it. Usually- not always.
The flying in the vid might be possible but I would neither believe it nor would I want to be anywhere near any pilot that far removed from sensibility. Even ground-'based tornado chasers spook me. I've been through the edges of two small ones (both EF-1) and a Derecho event and I don't want to be that close ever again.
The flying in the vid might be possible but I would neither believe it nor would I want to be anywhere near any pilot that far removed from sensibility. Even ground-'based tornado chasers spook me. I've been through the edges of two small ones (both EF-1) and a Derecho event and I don't want to be that close ever again.
To put the story to rest: VWVortex.com - Helicopter sucked into tornado
Post #12, the author himself... he was just "testing the dynamics" in animations. The guy publishing it as real, thats the guy with a problem.
Post #12, the author himself... he was just "testing the dynamics" in animations. The guy publishing it as real, thats the guy with a problem.
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https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/reports.html
Amazing what a little google brings up!
Type "tornado" into the search box ......
Amazing what a little google brings up!
Type "tornado" into the search box ......
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