Harrison Ford Crash Cause Exposed
 

Rumour has it that Harrison Ford crashed his 206 because his lap dancing 'passenger' mistook his cyclic for a 'Pole' and started twirling on the device. Excessive 'twirling' led to insufficient forward vision, with the resultant CFIT being blamed on too much CLIT in the pilot's FOV..................
I know because I was there...(the club in Lincoln, Nebraska, not the cockpit)

Good story, but a more factual one is located HERE

:} Bwaaaahahahaha. only us ozzies will really understand that. ;) :}

407 Driver
 

You're quite wrong, the accident report gives us a vital clue that has otherwise been supressed:

"....hitting on the rear heels of both skids"

It is fairly obvious that the 'Cyclic Dancer' was wearing her 'special' work Stillettos and Ford was foolish enough to be wearing his favourite white trousers - an unfortunate colour when entertaining a sweaty lap dancer;-)

Celebrity Helicopter Pilots
 

A friend and I were engaged in idle banter, and trying to think of celebrities who fly helicopters. We could only come up with Noel edmonds and Mike Smith, and of course, Price Andrew, although we couldn't decide whether he still flies them himself or not: undoubtedly he is able to fly a helicopter, buty does he actually do it any longer?

Any one got any more suggestions?

Harrison Ford IIRC

Remember hearing that both David Coulthard and Michael Schumie fly rotor.

And who was the rock singer who crashed his a couple of years back... :confused:

R

The late great Steve Hislop R.I.P.

Hey, I beat TIC to it...

Old thread here.

Patricia Cornwell (crime fiction writer - probably best known for the Kay Scarpetta books).

lots of footballers are doing it :=
mark thatcher,but needs a country to overthrow to fly in..!!!:}

If you read Nick Faldos autobiography there is a picture of him sitting in a 206 with the caption 'come fly with me'. Now that gives me the impression he is a heli pilot.
Apparently he gave up half way through his ppl. Loser!

I/C I don't think Graham Hill was a rotorhead although I stand to be corrected. He was flying a twin (Piper?) out of Elstree when I was training there in summer of 1965.

Was it Arnold Palmer who used to advertise Hughes 500s? Very famous American golfer anyway.

Botham and instructor in an R22..would not hold much fuel.

I taught another cricket player (Andy Caddick) a couple of years ago and he managed to fit his lanky frame in to a 22 pretty well all things considered. He has a 500 now and is still loving flying, really nice chap.

The spanish world rally championship winner Carlos Sainz has crashed a R22 in training and now owns/fly an EC-120

Dave Gilmour, what a talent - and he's got a Spitfire. Didn't know he flew rotary as well; good to see.
Melodically a genius, I reckon, but his lyrics have always seemed a bit prosaic; that song of his, Learning to Fly, sounds as if it's come straight from his flying school debriefing notes...they put some kind of American Indian style video clip behind it to make it look a bit more mysterious.
No offence Dave if you happen to read this, your music is absolutely inspired!

AOTW


If you actually do any reserch into DG's childhood you will find out why some of the songs are so DARK. There was a fair amout of abuse in the family from his father.

Mike

Did Jan Michael Vincent (aka Stringfellow Hawk) ever actually learn to fly during Air Wolf's production ?

Probably not - his spare time would have been taken up with acting lessons.