[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zk83Jvo9S_I[/video]

And if its the SBS apologies.

I’m more impressed by the pilot. good job it’s a calm day.

What Crell said.

Yeah………..we do that all the time with me dad’s helicopter,when were out on the jet skis!!! 😀

Yes incredible piloting. I like the bit where they just casually stand on the ladder as the boat comes sliding in at speed.

I watch them practise a hovver at sea level out my lounge window.
They use a sandbar about a mile out thats fairly shallow so if it goes wrong recovery is possible.
The downwash from the rotors is quite something , but maybe when you are in the middle it might be calmer.
10T of airframe though , so not insignificant mass to move around

Not as good as driving a mini full of gold into the back of a coach now is it.

I wonder how it pops up as the water floods or and the weight goes with it.

Barn swallow

Always worth a watch (I loved my G reg Cooper).
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGhuhC4AF0[/video]

I know someone who had performed that manoeuvre in training. He called it a hot extraction. He was thankful he never had to do it for real. The potential to get it wrong is pretty high apparently.

Wouldn’t that be SBS rather than SAS?

Are we sure it isn’t the Yanks in a Sea Knight?

Are we sure it isn’t the Yanks

Well given the lack of collateral damage……. 😉

I did a charity challenge walk organised by the Royal British Legion in September the awards were presented by Major General Tony Jeapes CB OBE MC, legend.

Are we sure it isn’t the Yanks in a Sea Knight?

Yeah, back end looks too small for a chinook.

should have used a Seaking then they could just land

I always thought that vid was of the US Navy SEAL’s training.

Well it makes me think of a chinook, and why it’s my favouriteist helicopter. 😀

Are we sure it isn’t the Yanks in a Sea Knight?

This might be, but the British certainly trialled it and had the capability.

This one shows it from outside too. It’s SBS. Picture quality is crap.

[video]http://m.youtube.com/?hl=en-GB&gl=GB#/watch?v=f7rqcKFcaBI[/video]

If you have a look at the shape of the “hull” of a Chinook, and where the fuel tanks are, i’d imagine it’s actually pretty hard to “sink” one!

i.e. you can relatively easily dangle it’s ass in the water but would be a lot harder to get the entire deck under:

That is beyond mental.
I wouldn’t want to have been the person trying to sell the idea to the pilot.

Could be Poole or one of the Hereford boat troops. Unless you were there, you ain’t going to know!
Used to love helping the SAR guys train, they’d drop us into the estuary then come back and get us.

The training tended to be done in quiet freshwater lakes. Salt water isn’t very good for aluminium airframes. I was always amazed at what went in to, got fastened to and what got thrown out of aircraft.

Unless you were there, you ain’t going to know!

What is the colour of the boathouse in Hereford?

Absolutely **** outstanding…!

Used to watch the SBS training near Plymouth when we were kids – lead up to the Falklands 🙂

There is no boathouse at Hereford!

Great video.

There is no boathouse at Hereford!

If there is or isn’t the people who know aren’t sad enough to post about it on Internet forums

Ooohhhh… Get u!

Ha ha are u sat there all camo’d up

Davey, are you getting the Ronin reference to the Hereford Boathouse quote?

I always imagined I was doing that as a nursed the wee 6hp RIB around Loch Ken back in the day..vrrrroooooooooooooom 😕

Davey, are you getting the Ronin reference to the Hereford Boathouse quote?

Oh aye but DeNiro said something like how the hell should I know. Not that there isn’t a boat house. Its unpainted by the way 😆

Doh… Epic fail!

I bloody thought that aswell! Back in the box for me.

Doffs cap and apologises.

Sneakies

I make more cock ups than most on here 😛 so take my shots when they are there

While we’re talking about Ronin, is Natasha McElhone’s Irish accent the worst accent ever committed to celluloid? I’m struggling to think of a worse one. Richard Gere in The Jackal maybe…

Oh aye but DeNiro said something like how the hell should I know. Not that there isn’t a boat house. Its unpainted by the way

It was decidedly brown after it flooded! I’m not claiming to have been SF as I never was although a lot of my ex colleagues are. They are a certain type, although not perhaps in the way you’d think!

While we’re talking about Ronin, is Natasha McElhone’s Irish accent the worst accent ever committed to celluloid? I’m struggling to think of a worse one. Richard Gere in The Jackal maybe…

Brad Pitt had a good go in that one with Harrison Ford.

Average height, average build. average colouring…… walk past in the street…..
Above average killing skills….