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Offline Baradium

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Cool Picture
« on: September 18, 2006, 02:19:08 AM »
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   Pretty good flying, I'd say.If you don't think our military
pilots earn their pay ... you need to take a look at this picture ...
and then look again and realize what you're seeing ...

   

   This photo was taken by a soldier in Afghanistan of a helo
rescue mission. The pilot is a PA Guard guy who flies EMS choppers in
civilian life. Now how many people on the planet you reckon could set
the ass end of a chopper down on the roof top of a shack on a steep
mountain cliff and hold it there while soldiers load wounded men in the
rear??? If this does not impress you ... nothing ever will. Gives me the
chills and a serious case of the vertigo ... I can't even imagine having
the nerve ... much less the talent and ability ... God Bless our
military!!!!!

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Offline Frank N. O.

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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2006, 08:38:15 PM »
Fantastic, simply fantastic! I wonder if Mike have done something similar?

Frank
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2006, 12:06:06 PM »
Wow! that's really impressive! And ohhhhh, I forgot to tell you all one thing: it could be that my brother starts taking lessons to fly real helicopters!!! :) So it would end up with two aviators in the same house! that's a beginning!  ;D
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2006, 05:50:06 PM »
Quote from: happylanding on September 19, 2006, 12:06:06 PM
Wow! that's really impressive! And ohhhhh, I forgot to tell you all one thing: it could be that my brother starts taking lessons to fly real helicopters!!! :) So it would end up with two aviators in the same house! that's a beginning!  ;D


That's great!  Start a family tradition maybe? ;)
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2006, 09:21:12 PM »
Chinhooks have stabilizators, extra-efficient one...so if it can put it's rear end on the roof, he doesn't need to worry about flying somewhere X-direction.... but still..doing that is skillful.... Definetly a cool picture
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2006, 01:56:08 AM »
The pilot ROCKS!

Would I do that?

Nope...I'll stick to wings that stay in one place :)
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Offline chuckar101

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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2006, 09:41:13 PM »
I agree with you cj5, to many things could go wrong in that pic.  Very cool pic though.
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2006, 11:01:00 PM »
Quote from: FlyingBlind on September 21, 2006, 09:21:12 PM
Chinhooks have stabilizators, extra-efficient one...so if it can put it's rear end on the roof, he doesn't need to worry about flying somewhere X-direction.... but still..doing that is skillful.... Definetly a cool picture
what are you talking about FlyingBlind???  extra efficient stabilizators??



I think the hardest part would be "seeing" where you put your rear wheels. Maybe somebody talked him in or something.
Once you're on the deck, I'd say its probably like a "one-skid-landing" (where you hold one skid against the slope if the terrain is to steep to land with both skids.....frowned upon by the USFS btw... ;)) but 90 degrees off....
Looks cool though

PS: Is it me or did he actually break through the roof with his wheels??
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Offline Frank N. O.

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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2006, 11:21:00 PM »
There's a piece of debris that rises over the roof in front of the near rear tire so I don't think it's thrue at all.

Why is that maneuver frowned upon? Because they can't do it?  ;D

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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2006, 04:35:18 PM »
Its frowned upon by the USFS because they think its a safety issue, because of the max performance issue with the helicopter.  Funny thing is they still let people rappel.  Mike probably knows a litle more about the deatils then I do though.
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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2006, 10:24:54 PM »
Here's another cool one!

But is it foto-shopped ???    ???

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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2006, 11:17:15 PM »
Uh... those look like F-18s, anyway...
though it's  possible they're T-38s...


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Re: Cool Picture
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2006, 12:02:54 AM »
It is a photoshop type image.  The building is at Randolph Air Force Base here in San Antonio and the public affairs types say it never happened.  http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-usa-flyby.htm

Still, I've seen formation nearly as complicated.  At Oshkosh Airventure in 1997, for the 50th "birthday" of the Air Force, they flew a formation forming the number 50.  It wasn't quite as nicely formed as the USA in the phony photo.

jbs

EDIT: Here's a local.live.com link to an aerial shot of the Taj.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=nxpcwr6t8sxm&style=o&lvl=2&scene=5966017
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