Fire Fighting Helo Crash in NZ

[BigMike]

A good photo of BK's bucketing on the Christchurch fire.


Photo by Mark Barker

[rottenjohn]

Originally Posted by heli kiwi

No this is real.
The other option would be getting the RNZAF and their NH90. As per another thread on here.

At the hourly rates the commercial operators do this sort of stuff for?

[SuperF]

Originally Posted by rottenjohn

Originally Posted by heli kiwi

No this is real.
The other option would be getting the RNZAF and their NH90. As per another thread on here.

At the hourly rates the commercial operators do this sort of stuff for?

Close to it. I heard about $25,000/hr to run those things. We all charge like that now...

[Kiwi500]

[500guy]

Originally Posted by BigMike

"In NZ"... totally believable...

The Kiwi's poineered the 2 helicopter lift.... probably

Commercial operations | Southern Lakes Helicopters, Fiordland, New Zealand

I know Erickson tried it about 25 years ago with 2 sky cranes. One aircraft got slightly lower than the other and it shifted the load and over torqued the heck out of one of the aircraft.