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Also, Apaches are beautiful things. Not in the conventional sense, obviously, but there's something a bit so-scary-it's-mesmerising about them. Kinda like a shark.
I may be biased by this though 🙂
Once had to cut a pathway through some trees to retrieve a helicopter that went down just outside Wittering a few years ago killing everyone on board 🙁
Remember standing in front of the wreckage and thinking how fragile they are.
I was flown down the hill by the good people of the San Bernardino Sheriff Air Rescue Team
I fell while snowboarding and hit my melon ... twenty odd years ago now.... long before people wore skid lids. That was the last run I ever did without one though, went and bought a Pro-Tec skateboarding helmet to use the next day.
It was a weird feeling "coming round" to basically see the below, hearing THUD THUD THUD THUD .... and thinking .... I must be in a helicopter ..... Coool ..... That helmet visor is the nuts ....but why is she bending over me?
And then worrying whether I had insurance.
My BIL is second in command at Yeovil. Let's just say when he took the two Sea Kings to his kid's school to take the kids for rides, he was the best Father. Nobody else need apply!
Was a spark at RAF Leconfield and played "survivor" many a Sunday morning for 202 Air Sea Rescue Sqn (Whirlwinds)... excellent fun being dumped then winched out of a cold Bridlington Bay. Also got strapped into a torched Hunter (I think) out the back of the airfield so they could practice hover/extraction manoeuvres. Craziest thing I ever witnessed was a maintenance method of determining the angle of the disc by chaining the Whirlwind to the ground whilst ground crew manually rotated a Heath-Robison style bit of scaffolding/big webbing belt that when whacked by the rotor tips allowed them to measure stuff.... bonkers!
What were the San Bernardino Sheriff Air Rescue Team doing in Switzerland?
I appreciate this.
Because, I got to pilot and land it. #BucketList
"Hello Mrs Tired. Your husband is going to be ok, but we're just waiting for the Air Ambulance to land". Needless to say I never heard it, but the HEMS doctor gave me morphine. Not my finest cycling hour, that one. Never did get a ride in it 🙁
those Robinsons always look so fragile. Love the chopping sound on hard turns, when I watch them flying at Wycombe air park. Surprisingly expensive compared with fixed wing.
There's been one of these working in Scotland recently (not my picture) :
