Roost Air Lounge => Aviation related topics => Topic started by: Baradium on September 18, 2006, 02:19:08 AM
Title: Cool Picture
Post by: Baradium 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!!!!!
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Frank N. O. on September 18, 2006, 08:38:15 PM
Fantastic, simply fantastic! I wonder if Mike have done something similar?
Frank
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Baradium on September 19, 2006, 05:50:06 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? ;)
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: cj5_pilot 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 :)
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: chuckar101 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.
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Mike on September 28, 2006, 11:01:00 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??
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Frank N. O. 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
Frank
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: chuckar101 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.
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Mike on October 04, 2006, 10:24:54 PM
Here's another cool one!
But is it foto-shopped ??? ???
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: Turbomallard on October 04, 2006, 11:17:15 PM
Uh... those look like F-18s, anyway... though it's possible they're T-38s...
TM
Title: Re: Cool Picture
Post by: switchtech 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
