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'copters thread
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Posted 13 years ago
So following on from the planes and the Apache thread. may I start for 10? Not ‘cool’, but ace
Posted 13 years agoMy fave, as I managed to fly one without crashing
Posted 13 years agoAH-1W Super Cobra Helicopter, kind of sexy in a pig ugly, you wouldn’t tell your mates if you had kind of way 🙂
Posted 13 years agoI like these threads…
Sea King rescue helicopter by jwrfooo, on Flickr
Chinook flying by jwrfooo, on Flickr
Hind flying by jwrfooo, on FlickrPosted 13 years agoBlue Thunder
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoCan’t believe that no-one’s mentioned……………..
Airwolf 8)
Posted 13 years agoOr TC’s chopper 8)
Posted 13 years ago
Still the fastest?Posted 13 years ago
RAF Boulmer by Lee Collis, on FlickrPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPeteG55
Still the fastest?Not any more.
The Sikorsky X2 is.
On 26 July 2010, Sikorsky announced that the X2 exceeded 225 knots (259 mph) during flight testing in West Palm Beach Florida, unofficially surpassing the current FAI rotorcraft world speed record of 216 knots (249 mph) set by a modified Westland Lynx in 1986.[8] The X2 flight was purposefully made 37 years to the date of the S-69’s first flight.[9] On 15 September 2010, test pilot Kevin Bredenbeck achieved Sikorsky’s design goal for the X2 when he flew the aircraft at a speed of 250 knots (290 mph)
Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoThink you have missed the Master
Posted 13 years ago
My first love!Posted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoPosted 13 years agoSome of the Soviet stuff was just mental…. Next to a Mig29
Posted 13 years agoCos it’s sat on my desk, innit.
Posted 13 years ago
sorry they’re a bit grainy – taken with a phone camera
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