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Only one helicopter ride for us - 20 years ago we took the tourist ride up & down the Las Vegas Strip at night. 
The nighttime views were spectacular. 
When we took of from McCarran, our Eurocopter tilted over about 45 degrees while I was sitting (actually  leaning on) next to the plexiglass door looking straight down a couple hundred feet as we turned up over the MGM Grand to head north. 
I didn’t take one picture of the 15-20 minutes while we were airborne. smh

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11 hours ago, RPM said:

It was a Robinson R44. You might want to reevaluate "perfectly good." Those fuckers will take themselves out of the air. I'll never ride in another one.

The main issue with Robinson’s are that they are cheap and you only need limited training hours to fly one, so too many people are flying them that have no business/experience flying them. When something goes wrong, they are done. That plus they manage to clip a lot of power lines and trees with them and that gets reported as a Robison crash the same as any other.

I have a number of clients that have them and only have one that technically crashed his but he really just landed in his pond behind his house a couple weeks after getting it. Insurance people were not amused.

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53 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Only one helicopter ride for us - 20 years ago we took the tourist ride up & down the Las Vegas Strip at night. 
The nighttime views were spectacular. 
When we took of from McCarran, our Eurocopter tilted over about 45 degrees while I was sitting (actually  leaning on) next to the plexiglass door looking straight down a couple hundred feet as we turned up over the MGM Grand to head north. 
I didn’t take one picture of the 15-20 minutes while we were airborne. smh

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any idea which model you were on?  My kid, like all Army Aviators, trained on a Lakota. 

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32 minutes ago, Brew said:

I have a number of clients that have them and only have one that technically crashed his but he really just landed in his pond behind his house a couple weeks after getting it. Insurance people were not amused.

Is he from Nocona? I remember that happening a couple years ago. The thing I was referring to about R-44 is boom strike.

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13 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

any idea which model you were on?  My kid, like all Army Aviators, trained on a Lakota. 

I have no clue. 
From what I could see, that company had about 8 or 10 of those Eurocopters in operation.

My cousin flew a Huey gunship in Vietnam, and Mrs. Brat’s old boyfriend flew a Hughes Loach.

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49 minutes ago, RPM said:

Is he from Nocona? I remember that happening a couple years ago. The thing I was referring to about R-44 is boom strike.

This one was in MS, an older guy that really had no business flying. I’ve briefly read up on boom strike, but the bigger issue I have seen and heard about has been inexperience related. Clipped power lines and trees are a significant cause of fatal Robinson crashes. However, I’m with you, I’m not getting in one. It was more due to the fact I don’t trust any of the guys I know as pilots than anything else though.

One of my contractor clients flies one regularly to job sites. He had 40 hours of flight training before he was turned loose. He was already instrument rated on turboprops which may have played into the time requirement, but that seemed like a very short training window to me.

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On 10/22/2024 at 10:32 AM, Lat22 said:

Good point. At least it didn’t chop its own tail rotor off before hitting the tower. 

 

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Posted a couple pics from that day in the game thread.  1st one is from a buddy out in Steiner Ranch.  Other 3 are mine from west of downtown - they must have made 4 passes each way before the actual flyover.

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On 12/28/2024 at 9:23 PM, Mittens said:

 

This is the strangest crash. No idea why the landing gear wasn't extended.  Pilot reported a bird strike, declared an emergency and best they could do was land gear up and a clean wing?  

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On 10/22/2024 at 6:31 PM, Gil Bang said:

On Sunday, I rode in a Bell "Long Ranger" from Key Largo to Miami.   Fucking amazing.  

I rode in the Long Ranger with the highest time airframe in existence about 40 years ago, from Lake Whitney to its FBO at Addison in Ft. Worth. We hovered over cattle creep feeders on the big ranches to the west of Ft. Worth until bucks as big as yearling calves came scampering out. The doors wouldn’t even latch, the airflow kept them shut. But when we would hover, all bets were off. 
 

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23 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

This is the strangest crash. No idea why the landing gear wasn't extended.  Pilot reported a bird strike, declared an emergency and best they could do was land gear up and a clean wing?  

Makes no sense at all. Bird strike on right engine at 7 mile final, flaps down. Why on earth would you not just continue on to land? Instead they clean up to go around, then 180 to land downwind, no flaps, fast, disregarding that they are going to float in ground effect. Hit the berm around 150 mph.

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Vans RV10 down in California.  Pilot and 16 year old daughter dead.  Probably an impossible turn scenario.  Damn, the audio at 1:58 is hard to listed to.

 

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On 9/2/2024 at 4:06 PM, Hornius Emeritus said:

 

 

 

 

my daughter went skiing in Aspen a couple of years ago.  She ended staying with her boyfriends, friend's parents.  She said it was the biggest house she's ever been in.  She said while she was their, Jeff B called and asked to use the folks hangar.  She broke up with her boyfriend so no further trips to Aspen..  ;<(

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OK, now for something completely different. An oldie but goodie.

Kiwis don't have jet fighters so Hueys were substituted.

 

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On 1/3/2025 at 9:08 AM, cabowabo said:

Vans RV10 down in California.  Pilot and 16 year old daughter dead.  Probably an impossible turn scenario.  Damn, the audio at 1:58 is hard to listed to.

 

Damn, all because he didn’t properly latch his door shut.  Seems like those gull wing doors are more trouble than they’re worth. Pretty amazing that the door didn’t detach quickly. 

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So for the first time a sitting president will be at the Super Bowl. I know there is a TFR no matter for these things, but I wonder what additional air support will happen. Additional F-22s running in circles at Vs?

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BAY AREA ALERT

SAN DIEGO ALERT

 

THE LAST MARTIN MARS FLEW FROM VANCOUVER TO ALAMEDA YESTERDAY

IT IS SCHEDULED TO FLY TO SAN DIEGO TOMORROW (TUESDAY)

THEN IT WILL FLY TO AN "UNDISCLOSED" LAKE IN ARIZONA where it will be taken apart and trucked to pima

 

THIS IS THE LAST TIME A LARGE SEAPLANE WILL TAKE TO THE AIR

if you live in the bay area, especially if you have kids, pack a cooler and get to the alameda seaplane pier before sunrise TOMORROW!!!!!  - departure time is not announced

7 were built - the 2 survivors were delivered to the US Navy in 1946 - others at bottom of ocean or broken up

 

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/re-engined-philippine-mars-ready-for-final-flight/

https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/philippine-mars-takes-flight-again-embarking-on-its-journey-west.html

https://skiesmag.com/news/philippine-mars-lands-in-san-francisco-bay-en-route-to-final-resting-place/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/wwii-flying-boat-20157568.php (visible in read mode)

https://www.scimag.news/news-en/112365/marooned-in-maintenance-the-philippine-mars-epic-journey-to-an-arizona-museum/ (stupid ai graphic)

 

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