Folllwoing on from planes ships and others, what are your faves, or what have you work on/ flown or been in?

Apache:

Hind:

Commanche:

So that’s what they look like. Thanks.

Thanks for clearing that up then

ROFLCOPTER

wokawokawoka etc.

the huey is an awesome bit of kit !

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.

Lama

Squirrel

[video]http://www.vimeo.com/15175929[/video]

soi soi soi

Always very fond of these little beauties:

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 ?

🙂

If you like helicopters these books are a must:

Low Level Hell

Chickenhawk

Lynx. Awesome bit of kit.

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

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?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4W4-RQDNf4[/video]

cranberry – Member

Something smaller for the lady ?

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

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!

Hekelopter low flying

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

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 😆 😆

Something smaller for the lady ?

Blimey…that dude is tall!

Is this a cheap Chinese copy of the Apachie?

I Ache – it looks like Blue Thunder!

lego airwolf?

Spent two years after college flying across the jungle in Bell 206 Longrangers – like a transit van with rotors.

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

Blackhawk

Sea Dragon