Sure you are not getting mixed up with this one?


YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.


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Very well done!

Some how I think the bureaucracy extant today would be a show stopper!:rolleyes:

The Kiowa belonged to 161 Recce Squadron.
From memory the pilot was the OC.

I am truly impressed, thanks for sharing this video!

Tom

Great flying. If anything went wrong it would have been spectacularly wrong.

Forgive my ignorance chaps and this from someone finally about to achieve a PPL(H), but having watched this actually how long would it take to achieve this level of control? Is this a standard which most commercial pilots with a few years behind them could master. Or is it another level as such?

You could offshore for 1000 and not come close, they you could go cattle chasing for a couple of months and be better . . . in the end it comes down to you, some people could fly their whole lives and never be there, others months.

The Army Air Corps did it with a Sioux in the Deutchlandhalle to commemorate the event, I remember reading in the flight scrap book that Hanna was invited but didn't attend as she would only attend if all her expenses were paid.

Thanks for the observation Blender but these days it is by chance that one is better.

Very very seldom do we see newbies being held in the curcuit and go no further until they will f'n well hold a hover, or hold one skid on a drum while the check pilot clambers out in a most ungainly manner, acts the clown and pretends to fall base over apex, tripping over the loose skid at the same time, or and then inadvertantly fall into the side of the machine, grab the skid and shake it vigourously, jump back into the seat with a thump, demand the pupe to hover with the HF aerial at a constant distance to a tree top as the machine is hovered laterally at a constant turn rate around it or the tail rotor same same, etc, etc, etc.

Some of the check pilots think they are training same as of the days of auld - THINK they are, but most go no further than the science of pretending to be the mentalist to teach the beating of a cows brain power, in itself a challenge for most. I.E. One does not have to think like a cow, but one has to think smarter than a cow.

Until we see more of that old style training then I'll go with the professionals of your ilk as the more precise operators.

One thing for sure some of the videos around of these same cowboy drivers adequately demonstrate to our acute embarrassment, that some of them cannot hold an attituide for any time at all. They'd never cut it as a gymnast, that's for sure.

The real answer for the question regarding snoopy, is yes it is very easy and only with a few hours of training. Planning is the key, In his case being aware of distances to the crowd barriers etc is demonstrated as being well attended to in his plan.

cheers tet

The extent of it nowadays (every year in a couple of the big Stadiums for Football / Rugby grand finals) seems to be flying a Blackhawk into the stadium, land or hover and then out again. Occasionally a roping demo but haven't seen much else.

Where can you find entertainment like this these days?
 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=923_1315519656

Snoopy
 

Brilliant piece of flying .... Made for great viewing... Stick & rudder stuff

Sea kings must have given the crowd a dusting :eek:

What could possibly go wrong - helicopter rodeo ;-)
 

A new to me vid of a chopper performing at a local rodeo. All looks safe to me, and I think it must be a trick of the camera - loads of room to play with ;-)

As always, as soon as someone says "it's an oldie", I'll delete:


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02b_1407207177

I still would not want to be the cameraman in the foreground with a tail rotor swinging by at about head height.

TB

Don't think that particular vid has been posted before, though it does have precedent:

An accident in the waiting..... (R44)

And of course Ross Rundle & Snoopy...

Snoopy - Flying inside a stadium (B206)

I/C

Hardly a sell out attendance....

Not sure how the bloke on the skid kept his footing!
Guess he has a lot of experience on bucking bulls.

Cameraman was in good position to "get the shot", but would be more protected below the level of the fence :)

An unmanned and well secured camera could have been left on the platform.


Mickjoebill

Must be the dream of every commercial pilot to get such a high profile job:E
I'd rather quit flying.

Definitely a candidate for the Darwin Awards - or rather several candidates. :hmm:

Absolutely outrageous - I don't think that aircraft is properly night equipped!

that's pretty good control on the spiral out!

won't comment on anything else....