Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage
Discussion
RizzoTheRat said:
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!
I know a few of the crew that flew down there on the Chinooks. Apparently they had to keep slowing down because the instruments were vibrating that much when there near the maximum speed there near enough unreadable. 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!
He loved being on helicopters. Did an exchange tour with an ex soviet block country working on there Mil and Hind helicopters. Very simple engineering (relative to western stuff), mainly because of a lack of redundant backup systems.
RizzoTheRat said:
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.
It was a common method in the West in the early days. Like this: No idea if that's entirely accurate though.
Speed 3 said:
What used to happen was - Each blade and pitch control link are colour coded, say red, green, blue, white. You'd attach chalk that matched the blade to each blade, spin it up, touch the measuring device on the edge of the rotor disc giving you the blade flight heights. Shut down, adjust the pitch, repeat.
digimeistter said:
Still think flying fast jets is the coolest job in the world. demic said:
geez!I was watching that saying "rotate.....rotate.....holy s
t he's leaving it late.....rotate....ROTATE"Eric Mc said:
The pilots of those two Ilyushins must be related.
I presume both aircraft were overloaded?
Maybe they were moonlighting Sunwing pilots I presume both aircraft were overloaded?
http://avherald.com/h?article=4ac18a5b
had ham said:
Nice video but has me confused.The fuselage and engine are steady and vibration free in the cameras view but the wing close to the camera is bouncing and flexing as you would expect.
Sooo. what is the camera fixed to?
Steve
had ham said:
It will need to be restored again. It crashed a few days later.https://youtu.be/MQmf3BYOBS8
Good Daily does of airplane, the tail spin stall looks dam scary amount of altitude loss until recovery.
Good Daily does of airplane, the tail spin stall looks dam scary amount of altitude loss until recovery.
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