Why Hollywood why?
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From: Massachusetts
Just watched "True Memoirs of an international assassin" on Netflix. Helicopter (UH1 variety) didn't immediately explode... sure was stable in the air without a pilot, even after smacking tailboom into trees, etc. I also laughed at the idea that it's safer to jump out of the helicopter at altitude than crash in it. Maybe... don't really plan on doing either!
Got to see the Airwolf helicopter at '86 HeliExpo, shake Ernest Borgnine's hand... That was pretty cool, even though the helicopter was pretty stripped on the inside.
I've always thought that the helicopter industry (maybe HAI?) should sue Hollywood for slander / defamation in that they make the general public think that flying in a helicopter is an invitation to exploding (or spinning out of control?) in mid air and therefore cost us in lost business. I'm sure a lawyer would shake his head at my ignorance of the law, just like we do of the way Hollywood portrays us.
Unfortunately we had a very bad fatal crash here in Boston many years ago involving one of the State Police Flying Club's Eurocopters. Generally, when I'm talking to the public I'll stress how safe helicopters really are, and how they don't really fall out of the sky like in movies. For about a decade after that accident people would always ask me, "Well, then what happened to that State Police helicopter?" and I would have to say that yeah, they sometimes fall out of the sky
Got to see the Airwolf helicopter at '86 HeliExpo, shake Ernest Borgnine's hand... That was pretty cool, even though the helicopter was pretty stripped on the inside.
I've always thought that the helicopter industry (maybe HAI?) should sue Hollywood for slander / defamation in that they make the general public think that flying in a helicopter is an invitation to exploding (or spinning out of control?) in mid air and therefore cost us in lost business. I'm sure a lawyer would shake his head at my ignorance of the law, just like we do of the way Hollywood portrays us.
Unfortunately we had a very bad fatal crash here in Boston many years ago involving one of the State Police Flying Club's Eurocopters. Generally, when I'm talking to the public I'll stress how safe helicopters really are, and how they don't really fall out of the sky like in movies. For about a decade after that accident people would always ask me, "Well, then what happened to that State Police helicopter?" and I would have to say that yeah, they sometimes fall out of the sky
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From: Australia
What I always enjoy is the fact that every movie helicopter is always so badly off-course ! Every time the shot pulls back from the helicopters, the pilots realize they are 90 degrees off-course and have to do a big wing-over away from the camera to head to the actual destination. If only I was allowed to be that sloppy in my flight planning...
