Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Ayahuasca]

[Ayahuasca]

[Dr Jekyll]

With some of these low flying shots I'm not sure the pilot intended to be quite as low as they were.

[Voldemort]

Dr Jekyll said:

With some of these low flying shots I'm not sure the pilot intended to be quite as low as they were.

True.

[MartG]

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

[hyphen]

8 B-52s

https://twitter.com/AircraftSpots/status/131658260...

[Ayahuasca]

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

What could possibly go wrong?

[KloppsBarmyArmy]

F-15 Eagles during Desert Storm.

Edited by KloppsBarmyArmy on Tuesday 20th October 03:19

[RizzoTheRat]

Ayahuasca said:

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

What could possibly go wrong?

They actually use them for towing quite a bit, on of the USN's roles for them is towing a mine sweeping sled. I'm guessing towing a ship is going to be a bit slower though.

[tog]

Ayahuasca said:

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH6uPBPymY[

Edited by tog on Tuesday 20th October 09:16

[Baron Greenback]

RizzoTheRat said:

They actually use them for towing quite a bit, on of the USN's roles for them is towing a mine sweeping sled. I'm guessing towing a ship is going to be a bit slower though.

Must be H&S rules for water-skiing behind a helicopter.

[stevesingo]

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

I'm calling shop, or whatever they used to fake images back then.

[MartG]

stevesingo said:

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

I'm calling shop, or whatever they used to fake images back then.

Top of page 3 - https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/rese...

[DeltonaS]

Pretty amazing:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theostevens_this-is...

"The men on the right are about to parachute into Normandy on D-Day, 1944. The men on the left are the very same group 70 years later. Even more amazing, they are on the same plane which carried them."

[stevesingo]

MartG said:

stevesingo said:

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957

I'm calling shop, or whatever they used to fake images back then.

Top of page 3 - https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/rese...

Well I never

[yellowjack]

stevesingo said:

MartG said:

stevesingo said:

MartG said:

A CH-53 helicopter towing the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound, sometime in 1957 February 1968

I'm calling shop, or whatever they used to fake images back then.

Top of page 3 - https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/rese...

Well I never

That's a really interesting document. Typically dry and matter of fact military style (and absolutely riddled with quite basic typos), but a comprehensive run-down of the ship's history from 1963 to 1980.

linked USN pdf document said:

...this was followed by a visit to Bridgeport, Connecticut 12 through 23 February 1968 to participate in tests of the CH-53 helicopter with the Sikorsky Aircraft plant. Part of the test included AUSTIN being towed by a CH-53 helicopter...

1957 is way off, though. USS Austin (LPD-4) didn't have her keel laid down until February 1963, and the first flight of the YCH-53 Sea Stallion prototype was on 14 October 1964. Lord knows where anyone got 1957 as the date for that photo!

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 21st October 10:04

[Eric Mc]

I was going to comment on the 1957 date. The CH-53 family of helicopters didn't start flying until the 1960s (they evolved out of the SH-3/Sea King design).

[anonymous-user]

tog said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH6uPBPymY[

That’s went wrong VERY quickly.

I guess you need to take up the strain in a more gradual way otherwise physics wins.

Apparently (according to comments) it was during filming of a low budget action movie.

[andymadmak]

El stovey said:

tog said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH6uPBPymY[

That’s went wrong VERY quickly.

I guess you need to take up the strain in a more gradual way otherwise physics wins.

Apparently (according to comments) it was during filming of a low budget action movie.

Well, that certainly used up the budget!

[anonymous-user]

andymadmak said:

El stovey said:

tog said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH6uPBPymY[

That’s went wrong VERY quickly.

I guess you need to take up the strain in a more gradual way otherwise physics wins.

Apparently (according to comments) it was during filming of a low budget action movie.

Well, that certainly used up the budget!

I wonder if they managed to use the (unplanned) crash in the movie? Viewers would be marvelling about how realistic it was.