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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).
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 [URL= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Jeapes ]Major General Tony Jeapes CB OBE MC[/URL], 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.
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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!
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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:
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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 ****ing 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....
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...
Nah, It's got to be Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
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...
No, the worst irish accent was Colin Farrels in Alexander. 🙂
Hmmm, The Devil's Own and Alexander. Giving me some good ideas for a film to watch tonight haha
Hammyuk that sounds like a quote, where's it from?
It's not a quote - simple facts 😉
Looks kinda fun TBH....:-)
Bet the helicopter pilot loves doing that one , I expect the GTFOOH is also pretty exciting if your in the boat hanging on when pilot gives it some...
Average height, average build. average colouring...... walk past in the street.....
I think it's referred to as being the grey man.
I didn't really mean physically. The reference to "humour and humility" in the required qualities isn't just lip service!
They're certainly not the serious, dark, brooding types everyone seems to expect ( not in the main anyway).
TBH I was always amazed that they had SAS TA 🙂
(Not knocking them BTW)
That is beyond mental.
I wouldn't want to have been the person trying to sell the idea to the pilot.
For a big chopper, that's not such a dodgy thing to do.
However, have you ever watched a C-130 do a Khe Sahn drop? Bringing a 78 ton aircraft in at low speed at 500ft, then just dropping the nose straight down requires an enormous act of faith that the bloody thing is going to pull up at the bottom! Whoever first suggested it must have been mad, whoever first tried it almost suicidal!
I've watched Hercs practicing it at Lyneham, from my work studio window, and it was heart-stopping every damned time.
However, have you ever watched a C-130 do a Khe Sahn drop
I've been in the back when one has done that, most certainly not a nice feeling. The pilots practice it a surprising amount though as it's perfect for the hercs style of operations.
Wonder what that does to the corrosion life? If you put your bike in the sea for 10 seconds it'll just about vanish 🙂
Khe Sahn approaches like that aren't practised as they're not the best tactically. Plus the newer C130J is less draggy.
You can do better in other types however 8)
TBH I was always amazed that they had SAS TA
IIRC the regular SAS was disbanded post WW2 but they kept the TA Regts
they do a different role, a few transfer directly into 22 (Chris Ryan)
there are a couple of other units in the TA that qualify as "special"
IIRC the regular SAS was disbanded post WW2 but they kept the TA Regts
Sorry, what?
22 is still live and kicking in Credenhill.
I didn't really mean physically. The reference to "humour and humility" in the required qualities isn't just lip service!
They're certainly not the serious, dark, brooding types everyone seems to expect ( not in the main anyway).
Tell you what, they eat alot lol.
Have seen the SBS practicing off Portland quite a bit, they are known to board the ferries at night as practice. That helicopter thing looks like a bit of a stunt, needs very flat water and stable wind conditions, a lot of risk of loosing the helicopter I'd think. Much easier to winch the people up and the boat if needed.
At the end of the war the British Government saw no further need for the force and disbanded it on 8 October 1945.[2] The following year it was decided there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit, and a new SAS regiment was to be raised as part of the Territorial Army.[26] Ultimately, the Artists Rifles, raised in 1860 and headquartered at Dukes Road, Euston, took on the SAS mantle as 21st SAS Regiment (V) on 1 January 1947.[3][26]
reading Wiki it appears that Army Reserve units are no longer designated SF
Sorry, what?
22 is still live and kicking in Credenhill.
I didn't say they weren't