[Closed] Helicopters

So that's what they look like. Thanks.

Thanks for clearing that up then

ROFLCOPTER

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wokawokawoka etc.

the huey is an awesome bit of kit !

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seen this done in the solent and a rib just drove straight in the back, only means one thing, sbs!

My old man has a helicopter licence! So I'm lucky enough to have been in few helicopter's but tbh i just dont trust a aircraft were the wings travel faster than the fuselage !!!

just dont trust a aircraft were the wings travel faster than the fuselage !!!

Surely only half the wings are traveling faster. The other half must be traveling slower.

wokawokawoka etc.

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Lama

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Squirrel

soi soi soi

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Always very fond of these little beauties:
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Hughes 500D, lovely little chopper.

I saw a Hind do a display at Helitech 88 or 89, the most impressive display by a helicopter I've ever seen. By all accounts it had been emptied and stripped internally but by 'eck did it get thrown around the sky, also being Russian some of the display regulations got ahem well and truly ignored.

Meh. That is all 😀

Something smaller for the lady ?

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🙂

If you like helicopters these books are a must:

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[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Low-Level-Hell-Scout-Pilot/dp/0891417192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299230509&sr=8-1 ]Low Level Hell[/url]

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[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chickenhawk-Robert-Mason/dp/0552124192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299230567&sr=1-1-spell ]Chickenhawk[/url]

Lynx. Awesome bit of kit.

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LOVE that Apache pic from the OP! My new desktop image I reckon.

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CaptainFlasheart +1

Saw a Lynx doing a barrel roll at an airshow once, absolutely brilliant. UK Army version with skids was my favorite. It helps that I used to work at Westlands of course.......

They have a very flat epi-cyclic gearbox, and the rotor blades are controlled by an 'upside down joystick' type affair (called a dangleberry) that pushes/twists through a large central hole in the box. This makes it incredibly maneouvrable, whereas a Sea-King, for instance, uses a swash-plate (which is a plate that runs outside the rather taller gearbox) to control the rotor blades.

SBS and the Chinook?

cranberry - Member

Something smaller for the lady ?

Bet it's not the first time you've said that. 😉

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The Mil Mi-26, courtesy of http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/helicopters/q0284.shtml

Can't post link from work (will do later) but spent 4 months working at RNAS Yeovilton in 2009 including whist they were practising for the Fly 100 celebrations, some amazing shots of the Black Cats and all the others flying 'stunts' and in formation 😆

Plus I can now identify every helicopter and engine variant just from hearing that first engine note several miles off!

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i was going to say chinook, but this piddles on the chinook

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maximum take of weight of 105 TONNES
40T payload!

FA Duck!

rejected on practicality. i can see the meeting now.

"Commrade, i have made you a helicopter than can lift 40T"

"Commrade..... its a bit...... big, where will we park it"

"40T Commrade, 40T.... your a chump"

""Cranberry - Member
Something smaller for the lady ?
Bet it's not the first time you've said that""

Genuine ROTFLMFHO 😆 😆

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Blimey...that dude is tall!

Is this a cheap Chinese copy of the Apachie?

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I Ache - it looks like Blue Thunder!

lego airwolf?

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Spent two years after college flying across the jungle in Bell 206 Longrangers - like a transit van with rotors.
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Not my photo - Island Helicopters seems to be no more.

A remote control Hind -D....

I actually NEED that.

When I marry Emma82, she can buy this for me. 🙂

Ah blue thunder Im much too young to remember this properly. Although I think I have seen the film was it a police helecopter or something. A bit like Airwolfs dad.

A bit like Airwolfs dad.

blue thunder was def less tech than airwolf - but not in a crap way like street hawk

If I remember rightly the co pilot in Blue Thunder was Dana Carvey who you should better know as Garth from Waynes World. Who'd have thunk it eh?

Now I'm showing my age!!!!

Some i've had rides in.

Chinook
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Blackhawk
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Sea Dragon
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What in gods name lives in what appears to be the wheel housings for the back end? Still think the notion of mid air refuelling a heli was the work a nutter. Can you imagine the brain storming session?

So, we want to get to here without landing
but its too far chief, can't we stop at Texaco and fill up?
No
how about drop tanks?
Nah, it'll make the chopper look gash!
were stuck then chief
hang on, how about we stick a big tube of flammable av gas out the back of another aircraft and plug it into the front of the chopper right in front of the big whirly blades - that'll work!
errrmmmm?!?!?

sea dragon as before
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but its pulling a mine sweeping sled!

When I marry Emma82, she can buy this for me.

Lol. You lucked out elf. Any man I marry will have a no fly zone within a mile radius of me.

As promised:

Formation Merlin:

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How many?
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Lol. You lucked out elf. Any man I marry will have a no fly zone within a mile radius of me.

Give in to your inner secret desires.

You know you want to really...

Just think; we could have lots of baby helicopters! 🙂

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Oh look how [i]sweet[/i] they are!

(Is broody)

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Someone's left a Rubik's cube on top of that Bell Huey Cobra.

I bet they'll be right miffed when they can't find it.

Tiger
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Is it wrong that the little knitted one makes me a teeny bit broody? There is something wrong with me.... I have girl friends now who have bought a RC helicopter too. They are taking over the world 🙁

See? I [i]knew[/i] you'd come round eventually... 😉

You'll be happier. Trust me.

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Is it wrong that the little knitted one makes me a teeny bit broody?

Don't start, my mum is knitting an entire farmyard by way of blackmail at the moment.

I hate to say it, emma92, but even I'm thinking of getting one, too!!

Rachel

part of my fleet:

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Ka-50
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Mi-17's
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Mi-28
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Ka-52
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CSH-2
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I can't link proper cos I'm a pleb but I think this gives a flavour of how I feel about your comment Rachel. It's also an appropriate response to you to Elfin 😛

Anyone got any pics of the massed approach at Wallop?

Chinooks are my fave. Did a long road ride in the Dales a few years ago, wasn't great weather but by the end of the day 2 or 3 Chinooks were out training, classic sight.

Fairey Autodyne

It's also an appropriate response to you to Elfin

Go on, give in, your urges are screaming from deep inside you...

The sooner you do, the sooner you can experience True Helicopter Joy.

You're just in denial. It's not good for you.

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How about this whizzy beauty:

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Eurocopter X-3 Hybrid

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