Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[Bonefish Blues]

Straight out of Thunderbirds!

[Eric Mc]

It's a magnificent beast.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

https://youtu.be/fPTnmZ_HPAs

Collection of weapon / hard point failures.

[JuniorD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyTP6tK-3Q

XB-70 sees the daylight once again

[Bonefish Blues]

JuniorD said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyTP6tK-3Q

XB-70 sees the daylight once again

Is it ever in its hangar I wonder - it's been out twice today alone

[MB140]

Brother D said:

99% sure this wasn't posted before (and no it's not model as it looks in the thumbnail) - but crikey that was close

Nearly a Dynamic roll over. That looked like some pretty st piloting there.

[marksx]

It's a hell of a machine alright. What's also amazing is they managed to make a 5 minute video out of it being very slowly pushed backwards.

[2fast748]

MB140 said:

Brother D said:

99% sure this wasn't posted before (and no it's not model as it looks in the thumbnail) - but crikey that was close

Nearly a Dynamic roll over. That looked like some pretty st piloting there.

Wonder if it was the same pilot in this vid....

[Speed 3]

GoPro on a helicopter main rotor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu48f7s5Ru8

[tuffer]

2fast748 said:

MB140 said:

Brother D said:

99% sure this wasn't posted before (and no it's not model as it looks in the thumbnail) - but crikey that was close

Nearly a Dynamic roll over. That looked like some pretty st piloting there.

Wonder if it was the same pilot in this vid....

WTF was he trying to do in that second video, absolutely no need to try and get that close.

[Bonefish Blues]

tuffer said:

WTF was he trying to do in that second video, absolutely no need to try and get that close.

One day Red Bull is going to have a major incident on its hands at one of its events I think.

[Brother D]

Speed 3 said:

GoPro on a helicopter main rotor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu48f7s5Ru8

Comments are amusing! There was a russian video from start up to take off like a Mi26(?) can't find it anywhere now. Totally illustrated why the blades have a life limit...

[eccles]

Brother D said:

Speed 3 said:

GoPro on a helicopter main rotor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu48f7s5Ru8

Comments are amusing! There was a russian video from start up to take off like a Mi26(?) can't find it anywhere now. Totally illustrated why the blades have a life limit...

Wasn't it Mi8?

[FourWheelDrift]

Brother D said:

Speed 3 said:

GoPro on a helicopter main rotor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu48f7s5Ru8

Comments are amusing! There was a russian video from start up to take off like a Mi26(?) can't find it anywhere now. Totally illustrated why the blades have a life limit...

Just reminds me to never go in a helicopter.

[Brother D]

eccles said:

Wasn't it Mi8?

Yeah that was it - had the (?) as couldn't remember what type. Just found part of the video on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1030058237017153

[RizzoTheRat]

Brother D said:

Yeah that was it - had the (?) as couldn't remember what type. Just found part of the video on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1030058237017153

What's the black pipe/cable over the top? Lubricant for the joint?


All this rotor stuff reminds me of a chat with a Chinook crewman years ago. They have fancy laser measuring kit for balancing the blades which costs a fortune and needs careful calibration. He was somewhere on an international aid job somewhere and there was a Russian helicopter there, one of the crewmen had a piece of chalk on a stick for the same purpose No idea if that's entirely accurate though.

Another thing he said that I'd not realised, when they deployed to Sierra Leone they flew direct from the UK, at 6 hours notice. 3000 miles over 3 days. That's a bloody long way in something that noisy!

[Baron Greenback]

https://twistedsifter.com/videos/helicopter-with-d...

Lucky helicopter escape a crash on top of a hospital with no injury and the heart got to the surgery on time.

[FourWheelDrift]

Baron Greenback said:

https://twistedsifter.com/videos/helicopter-with-d...

Lucky helicopter escape a crash on top of a hospital with no injury and the heart got to the surgery on time.

If not they might have had some extras.

[JuniorD]

FourWheelDrift said:

Baron Greenback said:

https://twistedsifter.com/videos/helicopter-with-d...

Lucky helicopter escape a crash on top of a hospital with no injury and the heart got to the surgery on time.

If not they might have had some extras.

Looks like the precious organ is wrapped in a bag from the butcher

[marksx]

Well, if you're going to crash anywhere, do it on top of a hospital.