Blimp ex-craft (NSFEMC)

[agric]

Apologies for 'worlds worst' soundtrack

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c64_1279412306

[scubadude]

DOH!

How does the saying go? "If it looks right it generally is..."
Well, that looked wrong and... it was.

I realise they are great for heavy lifting in principle but- :-)

[Eric Mc]

What a piece of rubbish that contraption was. Where was the FAA in all this?

When did this accident happen?

[ninja-lewis]

Piasecki PA-97 crash 1 July 1986

[FourWheelDrift]

Made by a proper helicopter company!!!!!!

Looks more like something a couple of slack jaw yokels Zeke & Cletus would make in the swamps to go "huntin' those pesky varmints".

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

What a piece of rubbish that contraption was. Where was the FAA in all this?

Probably put through the loophole as a government experimental craft.

[Eric Mc]

ninja-lewis said:

Piasecki PA-97 crash 1 July 1986

Strange how the "Piasecki" name was used. Piasecki had long since been absorbed into the Boeing Corporation by 1986. I bet this had nothing to do with Boeing.

[ninja-lewis]

Eric Mc said:

ninja-lewis said:

Piasecki PA-97 crash 1 July 1986

Strange how the "Piasecki" name was used. Piasecki had long since been absorbed into the Boeing Corporation by 1986. I bet this had nothing to do with Boeing.

You're right. It was built by Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, not Piasecki Helicopter Corporation (which became Vertol then Boeing Vertol). The former was founded when Frank Piasecki left the original Piasecki Helicopter in 1955 to form his own company again.

They also had a concept that would've used four CH-53s connected by a similar frame.

Piasecki Heavy Lift