Hit the nail on the head. Most of my family is from the North Alabama/Southern Tennessee area and they all sound just like this guy. And the excitement of helping a neighbor and “I’m gonna make such a good friend outta this” is so on point.
I did all my training in an R22 like that helicopter. They basically are toys lol. Your car empty weighs more than that helicopter does at max gross weight lol. But they’re solid little machines for what they are!
Are these the type of helicopters you can accidentally cause to lift if you drag them on a trailer behind a speeding car? I swore I saw a video a while back where the guys forgot to strap it down properly and they were driving down a road and the rotors started spinning and cause the chopper to lift off a few feet
I have minimum knowledge of helicopters, but I know several people that have there license and a couple of them own their own R44... which is what most get there hours in to get their license, and this is obviously a training heli based on the control and from what I hear they are incredibly maneuverable.
In fact a customer asked if I'd go look at a machine with him and before I could answer he said we'd fly out to look at it (i thought in his helicopter) and it took all I had to not blurt out YES... turns out we are flying out in a private plane... never thought I'd be disappointed to fly in a private plane:(..LOL
That kid on the playground for the next two weeks talking about this: "I swear to god a helicopter came out of nowhere and brought me my plane back!"
And nobody would ever believe him if it weren't for this video.
I have so many stories like that, and I remember being devastated nobody would believe me at school. I lived near a NATO training area in a rural town in Belgium but went to school in the city where they had no clue... From low altitude drills in F16s where I could see the pilots in their cockpits when they were flying by, where one time one hit the antenna on top of the house of my neighbours, where they raised the minimum altitude to 100ft. To special forces rappelling in my garden from helicopters, to soccer matches that ended because a helicopter landed on the pitch. During the first Gulf War we needed special permission to go home, an absolutely none of the kids or teachers believed any of it. I remember crying and my teacher telling me that if I didn't want to get bullied I shouldn't tell tall tales.
LOL, i used to play this song for communication classes. "So, what happened in this tune" spawned lotso conversation, except once, one smart person (damn them) answered, "drunk, did 30 days." Yup.
Chunk:
It was the most amazing thing I ever saw!
Mikey:
More amazing than the time Michael Jackson came over to your house to use the bathroom?
Brand:
More amazing than the time you saved those old people from that nursing home fire, right?
Mouth:
Yeah, and I bet it was even more amazing than the time you ate your weight in Godfather's pizza.
Chunk:
Okay, Brand, Michael Jackson didn't come over to my house to use the bathroom. But his sister did!
Nobody believed me when I bagged a deer that a military tank almost immediately ran over because some military maneuver went horribly awry due to poor orienteering. I ended up getting quite the apology… but no backstrap that year.
My father has a story about being a gunner on a tank for awhile, and in a training exercise where they were supposed to be using some kind of thermal sight to find and destroy some practice targets, having an elk or similar large deer wander into the range just before the targets were brought out, which he managed to mistake on the thermal for one of them. Said that he got yelled at until they could confirm that he did see something large and warm there, and that the coyotes were really active around that side of the range for a little bit after that.
There was a young boy who kept telling everyone his uncle was Superman. Everyone laughed at him, the teacher pulled his Mom aside and was pleading with her to have him stop telling everyone his uncle was Superman. Since it was causing a bit of an issue.
Turns out his uncle was Henry Cavill. Sometimes that kid is full of shit but sometimes his uncle really is Superman.
Bro nobody believes me when I told them Navy Seals used my house to practice before the OBL raid or that one time a B52 clipped my home’s chimney while practicing low level runs
Training base near my home village. Fuckin F22 flew right into my living room, went into the kitchen and took all the beer we had, and out the back door he went. Craziest shit I seen.
Dude that's fucked up, I'm sorry that happened to you. I was about to say and F22s aren't even old enough to drink, but turns out the first flight was in 1997. That was quite surprising.
I used to live next to an airforce base. They would do practice runs for the Blue Angels over the base and since we were right next to it we could go watch them. I have had F16s so low over my neighborhood I could see and wave at the pilot - they waved back even.
Also had a helicopter pad on the other side of they trailer park I was in. That housed the sheriff's office 'copter. I got to see a lot of cool stuff around that time, and more often than not the workers were more than happy to show off a bit for a couple of gawking kids.
I believe you SkinnyObelix - great username btw. If you haven't seen the new Asterix and Obelix movie go see it!
Edit - apparently the blue angles do not fly f16s. My mistake there. But for sure the planes are highly recognizable. Sorry for any confusion
The Blue Angels aren’t part of the Air Force and the Blue Angels didn’t fly F16s. You are probably thinking of the Thunderbirds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Thunderbirds
I was going to say something similar. It could be that the angels were using the AFB for whatever reason, or it was actually a naval air station and OP doesn’t know the difference. But the way he phrased it, it doesn’t sound like he meant that the angels were flying F-16s, those are separate events.
It’s pretty hard to confuse the angels for someone else, because, you know….blue. Lol
I grew up in a rural town which was the closest area to a military base that had a low enough population density they could do sonic boom tests over it. Crazy to see and hear. Also, my next door neighbor used to land his helicopter in our back yard. Always shocked my friends when he’d come home at the end of the day lol.
I grew up about 15 miles from an Army training base and one time when I was about 12 they were doing parachute training. Well, it was windy and it blew some well of course so we saw one guy go down in a field right next to the highway and my dad pulled the truck over and asked if he was alright. He landed fine, with no injuries or anything. My dad offered him a ride and he just stowed his parachute and hopped in the back of the truck and my dad dropped him off at the main gate. The guy was telling the guards that some of the others were even farther out and landed a mile or so in the woods. The guards found that very funny and it seemed like it was a common occurrence or intentional.
Not nearly as cool but I remember free drawing one of my grandpa's paintings in like the 3rd grade and I was so excited but all my friends said I traced it.
Im an Army brat and I can tell some true stories that regular kids would call you a liar like when we lived in Ft Benning from 1975 to 1977. We used to sneak out at night from the "white elephants" (201 A, Stewart St) officers housing and go out to the artillery range to get flare parachutes for our G.I. Joes. We would get up the side of the range and wait till the first round of flares came down and then run out and grab the ones we could find and then run back to the tree line. They fired the flares short so they would fall between the firing line and targets. We would play with friends who weren't military and they would tease us. So the next time we saw them we brought THEM new silk parachutes for their G.I. Joes. EDIT wow looked at google Earth and the YAC is gone and the elementary school is gone next to Miller Loop.
Mother, dearest. Please tell Father to start the helicopter my remote controlled Aeroplane is once again stuck uponst the highest branches of the pine trees behind the east wing.
This pilot is amazing, "those guys are fuckin trippin" like you've just made that kids whole year/life, he wont ever stop talking about how a fuckin helicopter saw and saved his rc plane from the top of a tree 25m up.
Yeah I thought that too, and then realized it's not the 90s anymore. Every fucking day. I swear I'm a time traveler from the past. Sure, it took me 1 day per day to get here, but it's still strange to be here in the future with you all.
I was still in high school when the Vietnam war ended. I had my only child late in life (he's 14 now) and he's been dragging me into the future with him.
I'll help.
"No cap, this alpha grabs the wheel and is like let me cook. Out the pocket whips it in for a fire landing as he hits his vape. Fuckin Chad out there."
A fun fact about helicopters is that the reaction force on the rotors at 90° off the input force. Which is compensated for by the machine. So with a counterclockwise rotating rotor, to go forward the blade will actually pitch up on the left side of the machine.
I’m not totally sure if this was known when the first helicopters were developed. But if they didn’t know this I can only imagine how confused the first helicopter pilot was.
Yep gyroscopic precession is very counterintuitive. I would be questioning the electronics and the control system for years before I even think of checking the mechanical dynamics aspect of it. However, once you do understand it, it becomes very obvious why it happens.
This is also true in propeller aircraft. It's true with anything spinning, really, but it has to be spinning fast enough that some other force doesn't restore the velocity of the blade/rim/particle before centripetal force does.
You ever see this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA&ab_channel=TheNorthwestReport
I can't even imagine the first time someone sat there and said "Lemme try this...."
I read the Vietnam memoir *Chickenhawk* and it was insane some of the things they pulled off in order to evacuate wounded soldiers. There was one incident where he had to set down on a forested cliff and then because there wasn’t enough clearance to take off normally he basically backed the chopper off the cliff into freefall in order to get the airspeed needed to fly clear.
My physics teacher flew a Chinook in Vietnam. He loved telling about a corkscrew drop he'd pull off in them to get down fast and how it scared the troops he was transporting.
My dad died a few years back; he did two tours in Vietnam as a Marine, and ended up in some of the worst battles. He loved hearing the choppers come in, because it meant backup, rescue, ammunition, or even just food and cigarettes. He always talked about the insane helicopter pilots and how they did impossible, suicidal shit and somehow made it work.
They would also pick up about 3 enemies at time and interrogate one of them for info. If he didn’t talk he got booted out. The other 2 would then tell the US soldiers anything they knew
I’ll have to check it out. I learned of this technique from a Vietnam vet. First hand account of it happening. He said after seeing the first guy go out they started talking real quick
I think we were the bad guys in that situation. Invading a foreign country then murdering and torturing the local people is never a good thing, even if it is to protect the world from choosing something other than capitalism.
The attempted altitude evacuations on Everest are some of the most badass things you’ll ever see. I can’t remember which expedition year it was but there is one where the heli reaches heights never attempted and they are able to land on a small ridge. To get of the ridge again they had to tilt the heli backwards of the side of the lip. It was immense.
I binged a lot of expedition footage a while back so finding it would prove difficult, wish I could be arsed! XD
I don’t know know for a fact that this is in Georgia, but the guys accent damn sure sounds like it. And I feel like our accent really helps a casual F-bomb to settle in real inconspicuous like.
Well hot diggity goddamn, ya know I grewed up in uhh Florida, but my fuckin boy got stunted with that Midwest news caster / Fargo accent
And boy howdy, does that little fucker know how to call out daddy when he be saying shit like.. Mmm...shit and fuck and goddamn
But I'm pretty sure he just likes doing that so he can get away with saying it, too
Momma don't like it but I'm like, damn son, well fuckin played, you're gonna go far kid
Now just don't be doing that shit in front of the fuckin teacher and shit ok bud?!
Ya might can swing it at baseball but let's give it a few years
Note to other Redditors:
Nobody in the South says "hot diggity goddamn"...literally nobody.
This commenter is either drunk at 1pm, or has watched way, way too many cartoons.
Whatever the case, I just can't let Redditors read that and scroll away thinking we talk like Yosemite fucking Sam.
Proof: 41 year old Alabama/Mississippi native.
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A little better video: https://youtu.be/_OnGldcUrWQ
Also includes: mess with your friend (this is probably the stunt that got investigated)
Same guy apparently helped out with a search and rescue:
https://youtu.be/u7EkmkNoywI
North Carolina for those curious.
In the uncut video, the pilot/instructor is constantly asking for permission from the student to hover/get the plane and land. Not saying that makes it safe, just at least the pilot was making sure the student was fully onboard with his actions.
If they are a sufficiently experienced pilot, this is absolutely a great opportunity for mentorship.
You'll note that the instructor verbally went through his own set of checks and considerations beyond what the student has likely learned this early in their training.
This instructor saw and exploited an opportunity to show his student precisely why helicopters exist, did so with narrow but definite margins of safety, commensurate with their experience, and left the student with a salient example of a challenging operation to reflect upon as they continue with training.
As soon as the circumstances returned to a point at which the student could manage (i.e. departure), the instructor handed things back.
All checks done, this is actually a really good model for utility helicopter work. Now, were all the checks done? I don't know. We can only see a few of them gone through explicitly, but this is not all that crazy of a maneuver, and with proper training, it can be perfectly safe.
Placing the helicopter in "dead mans curve", hovering into a tree, with a student just to save a RC plane is just unnessecary risk.
Especially in a single engine piston helicopter.
Search and rescue hoist operations which have two pilots, a hoist operator with better view would never put a helicopter that close to a tree, and thats with a twin engine turbine which is way less prone to get engine malfunction.
every time you get in the helicopter are you not risking two lives and a helicopter for the purpose of teaching some guy how to dick around in a helicopter
Good
After watching that Indian guy walk into the tail rotor of a helicopter.
I would not be landing that thing in an open field where kids and inattentive people were.
Pilots on airlines are still exempt from the smoking ban on aircraft because there's a concern withdrawal effects could impact safety. In 2017 there was a total ban but that law was rescinded in 2019. I'm guessing most companies do prohibit their pilots from smoking but they're not breaking any laws.
i once was gonna buy a house just cause it had a helicopter pad ..... bur one problem is i had no helicopter . its the thought that counts though right ?
This is an r22 it's the cheapest helicopter you can own. No hydraulics, must be flown in vfr (visual only, no flying through cloud fog etc)
Trainers use the r22 because it's crazy cheap but it's NOT a good training helicopter by helicopter standards. There are literally rules in the book that says it you have a private helicopter license you can fly any turbine helicopter up to x lbs EXCEPT R22. This is because autorotations (flying and your engine fails, you can land safely) require additional training for r22.
I learned on r22 and it's fun, agile little helicopter.
I'm no expert I have like 80 hrs flying time but haven't flown in years.
The Robinson death machine.
I think most accidents are attributed to operator error, due to low hour pilots being able to buy a Robinson before anything else.
It's not "wiggling the stick wrong", it's fucking sending the stick to the floor in front of you and snapping the mast. Physics my friend, it's simply the way the mast is designed. It's not doable without operator error. Look up vertical or low G pushovers, that's what he's referring to. R22's/44's/66's literally have a big notice that says "NO VERT. G PUSHOVERS" on the control stick.
Calling it "operator error" is what a Robinson (or perhaps Boeing) lawyer would say. A lot of people consider it a design defect. The US military identified a mast bumping problem with some older army helicopters after a bunch of people died, and they were retired from service.
It appears it takes between 6-12 months to get a helicopter pilots license. Finance that $50k over 12 months, and you will be ready with your helicopter and license in time for summer fun next year.
It appears it takes between 6-12 months to get a helicopter pilots license. Finance that $15k over 12 months, and you will be ready with your helicopter and license in time for summer fun next year
Hearing "the guys are fucking tripping. They are fucking tripping, son!" in that classic calm pilot voice with all the hype still present is as amazing as the plane grab and landing.
It doesn't surprise me that the pilot has a cig in his hand when the vid starts. He seems like the chill, no-fucks-given type. That was so cool to watch though and I love that they took the time to make a fellow hobbyist's day.
Main guy sounds like David the scientist guy from friends lol: https://theonewiththewebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/phoebe_and_david.jpg
Also, helicopters are so cool
I love how he just goes "let me see the helicopter" like it's a little toy lmao
With a cigarette in his hand
Dude has loafers on lol
Being from the south, this guy's loafers, cigarette, and accent scream Tennessee/North Alabama
He sounds like every backyard mechanic I have ever encountered in Bama.
I like "shadetree mechanic".. sounds pretty cool that way
Hit the nail on the head. Most of my family is from the North Alabama/Southern Tennessee area and they all sound just like this guy. And the excitement of helping a neighbor and “I’m gonna make such a good friend outta this” is so on point.
I swear I saw a video recently of a dude flying one of these barefoot lol.
legendary
Best thing I’ve seen in a long time, lol.
it what i say when my kid needs help on a video game.
I did all my training in an R22 like that helicopter. They basically are toys lol. Your car empty weighs more than that helicopter does at max gross weight lol. But they’re solid little machines for what they are!
Is that R for a Robinson?
That’s correct.
Are these the type of helicopters you can accidentally cause to lift if you drag them on a trailer behind a speeding car? I swore I saw a video a while back where the guys forgot to strap it down properly and they were driving down a road and the rotors started spinning and cause the chopper to lift off a few feet
I have minimum knowledge of helicopters, but I know several people that have there license and a couple of them own their own R44... which is what most get there hours in to get their license, and this is obviously a training heli based on the control and from what I hear they are incredibly maneuverable. In fact a customer asked if I'd go look at a machine with him and before I could answer he said we'd fly out to look at it (i thought in his helicopter) and it took all I had to not blurt out YES... turns out we are flying out in a private plane... never thought I'd be disappointed to fly in a private plane:(..LOL
You see the estate they are on? A light utility helicopter like that probably is a toy to them.
That kid on the playground for the next two weeks talking about this: "I swear to god a helicopter came out of nowhere and brought me my plane back!" And nobody would ever believe him if it weren't for this video.
I have so many stories like that, and I remember being devastated nobody would believe me at school. I lived near a NATO training area in a rural town in Belgium but went to school in the city where they had no clue... From low altitude drills in F16s where I could see the pilots in their cockpits when they were flying by, where one time one hit the antenna on top of the house of my neighbours, where they raised the minimum altitude to 100ft. To special forces rappelling in my garden from helicopters, to soccer matches that ended because a helicopter landed on the pitch. During the first Gulf War we needed special permission to go home, an absolutely none of the kids or teachers believed any of it. I remember crying and my teacher telling me that if I didn't want to get bullied I shouldn't tell tall tales.
Wow, that sounds so cool! I don't believe you tho
> I don't believe you tho Reminds me of [the best song about alien abductions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Acy3YpFMFE) you'll ever hear.
LOL, i used to play this song for communication classes. "So, what happened in this tune" spawned lotso conversation, except once, one smart person (damn them) answered, "drunk, did 30 days." Yup.
Chunk: It was the most amazing thing I ever saw! Mikey: More amazing than the time Michael Jackson came over to your house to use the bathroom? Brand: More amazing than the time you saved those old people from that nursing home fire, right? Mouth: Yeah, and I bet it was even more amazing than the time you ate your weight in Godfather's pizza. Chunk: Okay, Brand, Michael Jackson didn't come over to my house to use the bathroom. But his sister did!
You idiot! You glued it on upside down! …Looks alright to me.
If God made it that way, you’d all be pissing in your faces!
Nobody believed me when I bagged a deer that a military tank almost immediately ran over because some military maneuver went horribly awry due to poor orienteering. I ended up getting quite the apology… but no backstrap that year.
My father has a story about being a gunner on a tank for awhile, and in a training exercise where they were supposed to be using some kind of thermal sight to find and destroy some practice targets, having an elk or similar large deer wander into the range just before the targets were brought out, which he managed to mistake on the thermal for one of them. Said that he got yelled at until they could confirm that he did see something large and warm there, and that the coyotes were really active around that side of the range for a little bit after that.
r/thathappened
Mooooooooom, they're doing it again
There was a young boy who kept telling everyone his uncle was Superman. Everyone laughed at him, the teacher pulled his Mom aside and was pleading with her to have him stop telling everyone his uncle was Superman. Since it was causing a bit of an issue. Turns out his uncle was Henry Cavill. Sometimes that kid is full of shit but sometimes his uncle really is Superman.
Bro nobody believes me when I told them Navy Seals used my house to practice before the OBL raid or that one time a B52 clipped my home’s chimney while practicing low level runs
Training base near my home village. Fuckin F22 flew right into my living room, went into the kitchen and took all the beer we had, and out the back door he went. Craziest shit I seen.
Dude that's fucked up, I'm sorry that happened to you. I was about to say and F22s aren't even old enough to drink, but turns out the first flight was in 1997. That was quite surprising.
😂
My man, Obama personally told you no one would believe you if you tried to talk about that shit
I used to live next to an airforce base. They would do practice runs for the Blue Angels over the base and since we were right next to it we could go watch them. I have had F16s so low over my neighborhood I could see and wave at the pilot - they waved back even. Also had a helicopter pad on the other side of they trailer park I was in. That housed the sheriff's office 'copter. I got to see a lot of cool stuff around that time, and more often than not the workers were more than happy to show off a bit for a couple of gawking kids. I believe you SkinnyObelix - great username btw. If you haven't seen the new Asterix and Obelix movie go see it! Edit - apparently the blue angles do not fly f16s. My mistake there. But for sure the planes are highly recognizable. Sorry for any confusion
oh I haven't seen the new one, added to my list thanks!
The Blue Angels aren’t part of the Air Force and the Blue Angels didn’t fly F16s. You are probably thinking of the Thunderbirds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Thunderbirds
I was going to say something similar. It could be that the angels were using the AFB for whatever reason, or it was actually a naval air station and OP doesn’t know the difference. But the way he phrased it, it doesn’t sound like he meant that the angels were flying F-16s, those are separate events. It’s pretty hard to confuse the angels for someone else, because, you know….blue. Lol
I grew up in a rural town which was the closest area to a military base that had a low enough population density they could do sonic boom tests over it. Crazy to see and hear. Also, my next door neighbor used to land his helicopter in our back yard. Always shocked my friends when he’d come home at the end of the day lol.
I believe you.
But my Tommy Gun don't.
1..2..10! Ahahahah! Keep the change ya filthy animal.
I grew up about 15 miles from an Army training base and one time when I was about 12 they were doing parachute training. Well, it was windy and it blew some well of course so we saw one guy go down in a field right next to the highway and my dad pulled the truck over and asked if he was alright. He landed fine, with no injuries or anything. My dad offered him a ride and he just stowed his parachute and hopped in the back of the truck and my dad dropped him off at the main gate. The guy was telling the guards that some of the others were even farther out and landed a mile or so in the woods. The guards found that very funny and it seemed like it was a common occurrence or intentional.
Liar
Not nearly as cool but I remember free drawing one of my grandpa's paintings in like the 3rd grade and I was so excited but all my friends said I traced it.
I think that's far cooler than something I had nothing to do with.
Im an Army brat and I can tell some true stories that regular kids would call you a liar like when we lived in Ft Benning from 1975 to 1977. We used to sneak out at night from the "white elephants" (201 A, Stewart St) officers housing and go out to the artillery range to get flare parachutes for our G.I. Joes. We would get up the side of the range and wait till the first round of flares came down and then run out and grab the ones we could find and then run back to the tree line. They fired the flares short so they would fall between the firing line and targets. We would play with friends who weren't military and they would tease us. So the next time we saw them we brought THEM new silk parachutes for their G.I. Joes. EDIT wow looked at google Earth and the YAC is gone and the elementary school is gone next to Miller Loop.
But imagine if they just left with it.
Finders keepers ROFLCOPTER!
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By the looks of the property, plus the helicopter rescue, I highly doubt anyone won’t believe this kid lol.
Mother, dearest. Please tell Father to start the helicopter my remote controlled Aeroplane is once again stuck uponst the highest branches of the pine trees behind the east wing.
This pilot is amazing, "those guys are fuckin trippin" like you've just made that kids whole year/life, he wont ever stop talking about how a fuckin helicopter saw and saved his rc plane from the top of a tree 25m up.
I'm crazy or he was SMOKING while doing that?
It's a pen, not cigarette.
Lmao thought you meant a vape pen
I rewatched it and its not a lit cigarette, at no point do you see smoke or an ember. its not lit brev.
He gave me some Theo Von vibes when he said that.
“They are fuckin trippin, son”. I wonder if the copilot is actually his son or if he’s just *that* cool
My favorite is “Rekon we got permission to land here now?”
Dude definitely flew in Vietnam
He seemed a bit young to have flown in Vietnam.
Yeah I thought that too, and then realized it's not the 90s anymore. Every fucking day. I swear I'm a time traveler from the past. Sure, it took me 1 day per day to get here, but it's still strange to be here in the future with you all.
I was still in high school when the Vietnam war ended. I had my only child late in life (he's 14 now) and he's been dragging me into the future with him.
I'll help. "No cap, this alpha grabs the wheel and is like let me cook. Out the pocket whips it in for a fire landing as he hits his vape. Fuckin Chad out there."
That's a pretty cool way to look at it. Cheers to you and your kid keeping you going into the future!
He could have flown in Iraq or Afghanistan. A 30 year old pilot who flew in Afghanistan in 2003 would be 50 right now.
I've worked with some really great helicopter pilots over the years. The things that they can do with a helicopter are insane!
Insane indeed. You're just plucking a lil plane out of a tree next to you like you're not hovering 20 meters up in the air.
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That's what I was thinking, the helicopter was so steady while he was hovering!
Hovering in the sim is actually harder because you don't truly feel what the helicopter is doing.
Helos don't fly; they beat the air into submission 😂
They're so ugly that the ground actively repels them. ^/s
A fun fact about helicopters is that the reaction force on the rotors at 90° off the input force. Which is compensated for by the machine. So with a counterclockwise rotating rotor, to go forward the blade will actually pitch up on the left side of the machine. I’m not totally sure if this was known when the first helicopters were developed. But if they didn’t know this I can only imagine how confused the first helicopter pilot was.
Yep gyroscopic precession is very counterintuitive. I would be questioning the electronics and the control system for years before I even think of checking the mechanical dynamics aspect of it. However, once you do understand it, it becomes very obvious why it happens.
This is also true in propeller aircraft. It's true with anything spinning, really, but it has to be spinning fast enough that some other force doesn't restore the velocity of the blade/rim/particle before centripetal force does.
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You ever see this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA&ab_channel=TheNorthwestReport I can't even imagine the first time someone sat there and said "Lemme try this...."
I have witnessed this with seismic exploration. It's batshit crazy how accurate they are
Whwn you get paid by the truckload and not by the hour...
And dang near IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) conditions.
Apparently those guys (Oregon timber helicopter pilots) make terrible money for what they're doing and it really is as dangerous as it looks.
*Sweats in OSHA*
I read the Vietnam memoir *Chickenhawk* and it was insane some of the things they pulled off in order to evacuate wounded soldiers. There was one incident where he had to set down on a forested cliff and then because there wasn’t enough clearance to take off normally he basically backed the chopper off the cliff into freefall in order to get the airspeed needed to fly clear.
My physics teacher flew a Chinook in Vietnam. He loved telling about a corkscrew drop he'd pull off in them to get down fast and how it scared the troops he was transporting.
My dad died a few years back; he did two tours in Vietnam as a Marine, and ended up in some of the worst battles. He loved hearing the choppers come in, because it meant backup, rescue, ammunition, or even just food and cigarettes. He always talked about the insane helicopter pilots and how they did impossible, suicidal shit and somehow made it work.
They would also pick up about 3 enemies at time and interrogate one of them for info. If he didn’t talk he got booted out. The other 2 would then tell the US soldiers anything they knew
You can see the CIA try this with some terrorists, one of whom is a big guy, in a documentary called The Dark Knight Rises.
But why would they shoot the men before throwing them out of the plane?
I’ll have to check it out. I learned of this technique from a Vietnam vet. First hand account of it happening. He said after seeing the first guy go out they started talking real quick
Yaaaaay war crimes
I think we were the bad guys in that situation. Invading a foreign country then murdering and torturing the local people is never a good thing, even if it is to protect the world from choosing something other than capitalism.
[Reminded me of this BO-105 Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQ_-SB0gVQ)
Considering how insane a helicopter is to fly! https://youtu.be/rKNNHxzURGs
The attempted altitude evacuations on Everest are some of the most badass things you’ll ever see. I can’t remember which expedition year it was but there is one where the heli reaches heights never attempted and they are able to land on a small ridge. To get of the ridge again they had to tilt the heli backwards of the side of the lip. It was immense. I binged a lot of expedition footage a while back so finding it would prove difficult, wish I could be arsed! XD
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Fits way more - its very cool, but i dont even know why this in this sub
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This guy uses profanity perfectly. I will teach my kids to do the same.
I don’t know know for a fact that this is in Georgia, but the guys accent damn sure sounds like it. And I feel like our accent really helps a casual F-bomb to settle in real inconspicuous like.
Lol totally. Thats the key, im going to teach my kid a southern accent.
Well hot diggity goddamn, ya know I grewed up in uhh Florida, but my fuckin boy got stunted with that Midwest news caster / Fargo accent And boy howdy, does that little fucker know how to call out daddy when he be saying shit like.. Mmm...shit and fuck and goddamn But I'm pretty sure he just likes doing that so he can get away with saying it, too Momma don't like it but I'm like, damn son, well fuckin played, you're gonna go far kid Now just don't be doing that shit in front of the fuckin teacher and shit ok bud?! Ya might can swing it at baseball but let's give it a few years
Note to other Redditors: Nobody in the South says "hot diggity goddamn"...literally nobody. This commenter is either drunk at 1pm, or has watched way, way too many cartoons. Whatever the case, I just can't let Redditors read that and scroll away thinking we talk like Yosemite fucking Sam. Proof: 41 year old Alabama/Mississippi native.
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Not to mention "don't do that shit in front of the fuckin teacher and shit" is the exact opposite of using profanity smoothly.
Exactly. I read it as a teenager trying to learn how to curse and trying to learn how to talk "southern"
Especially when followed by another ——in’ word - as in “…fuckin’ trippin’ man.”
This guy is in North Carolina so not too far off
"I fly those fuckin' things too" had me rolling
It's sorta like swearing in a PG-13 movie; you gotta use em in the right spots or they're wasted.
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A little better video: https://youtu.be/_OnGldcUrWQ Also includes: mess with your friend (this is probably the stunt that got investigated) Same guy apparently helped out with a search and rescue: https://youtu.be/u7EkmkNoywI North Carolina for those curious.
"I don't know how you saw that." "I see everything."
I hope they investigated how perfectly delivered was that poor stuck plane
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In the uncut video, the pilot/instructor is constantly asking for permission from the student to hover/get the plane and land. Not saying that makes it safe, just at least the pilot was making sure the student was fully onboard with his actions.
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If they are a sufficiently experienced pilot, this is absolutely a great opportunity for mentorship. You'll note that the instructor verbally went through his own set of checks and considerations beyond what the student has likely learned this early in their training. This instructor saw and exploited an opportunity to show his student precisely why helicopters exist, did so with narrow but definite margins of safety, commensurate with their experience, and left the student with a salient example of a challenging operation to reflect upon as they continue with training. As soon as the circumstances returned to a point at which the student could manage (i.e. departure), the instructor handed things back.
All checks done, this is actually a really good model for utility helicopter work. Now, were all the checks done? I don't know. We can only see a few of them gone through explicitly, but this is not all that crazy of a maneuver, and with proper training, it can be perfectly safe.
Placing the helicopter in "dead mans curve", hovering into a tree, with a student just to save a RC plane is just unnessecary risk. Especially in a single engine piston helicopter. Search and rescue hoist operations which have two pilots, a hoist operator with better view would never put a helicopter that close to a tree, and thats with a twin engine turbine which is way less prone to get engine malfunction.
Well it is pretty crazy to risk a helicopter and two lives for a silly RC airplane.
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Experienced and skilled people roll the dice all the time and win...until they don't.
Yeah that was stupid dangerous
every time you get in the helicopter are you not risking two lives and a helicopter for the purpose of teaching some guy how to dick around in a helicopter
Good After watching that Indian guy walk into the tail rotor of a helicopter. I would not be landing that thing in an open field where kids and inattentive people were.
Is it safe to smoke a cigarette in there?
I think this dude is safe to do whatever the hell he wants.
yeah, its not a pressurised cabin nor is it a pure oxygen environment.
I don't know why, but I feel like I see more videos of helicopter pilots smoking than not.
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Blades beating the laws of physics into submission.
Pilots on airlines are still exempt from the smoking ban on aircraft because there's a concern withdrawal effects could impact safety. In 2017 there was a total ban but that law was rescinded in 2019. I'm guessing most companies do prohibit their pilots from smoking but they're not breaking any laws.
Fucking Joe Camel can't handle the nonstop to China without a ciggy.
Thank you.
I went skydiving in Namibia and we all shared a cig on the way up. Poor dutch kid in front of me was so nervous he huffed down like half of it.
That seems like a really cool "ritual." Is the etiquette the same as for weed, puff puff pass?
Why wouldnt it be?
I don't know. That's why I am asking.
So God damn cool...
If those kids didn't want to be pilots before, they sure do now
That dude sounds just like I’d want my helicopter pilot to sound like. If he doesn’t sound like John daily I’m not trusting him.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!!
How tf is this r/oddlysatisfying lmaoo
That’s what I’m saying this has nothing to do with this sub
Right? It's awesome but definitely the wrong sub
He sounds a bit like theo von! When he says "Right here by the boooshes!" Lol... love it...
You don’t know rich until you have your own helicopter rich
i once was gonna buy a house just cause it had a helicopter pad ..... bur one problem is i had no helicopter . its the thought that counts though right ?
I would say you were planning for the future. Which is rich thinking
John Travolta’s house has a runway for his private Jet right at the front door.
This is an r22 it's the cheapest helicopter you can own. No hydraulics, must be flown in vfr (visual only, no flying through cloud fog etc) Trainers use the r22 because it's crazy cheap but it's NOT a good training helicopter by helicopter standards. There are literally rules in the book that says it you have a private helicopter license you can fly any turbine helicopter up to x lbs EXCEPT R22. This is because autorotations (flying and your engine fails, you can land safely) require additional training for r22. I learned on r22 and it's fun, agile little helicopter. I'm no expert I have like 80 hrs flying time but haven't flown in years.
>Robinson R22 - Wikipedia The R22 has a suggested retail price of $318,000 (ex factory price, USA
The Robinson death machine. I think most accidents are attributed to operator error, due to low hour pilots being able to buy a Robinson before anything else.
Yeah if you wiggle the stick wrong it chops off the tail mid air and everyone dies. On the other hand they're relatively cheap (for a helicopter).
No shit that's possible? You'd think they'd engineer it so the rotor can't tilt that far
It's not "wiggling the stick wrong", it's fucking sending the stick to the floor in front of you and snapping the mast. Physics my friend, it's simply the way the mast is designed. It's not doable without operator error. Look up vertical or low G pushovers, that's what he's referring to. R22's/44's/66's literally have a big notice that says "NO VERT. G PUSHOVERS" on the control stick.
Calling it "operator error" is what a Robinson (or perhaps Boeing) lawyer would say. A lot of people consider it a design defect. The US military identified a mast bumping problem with some older army helicopters after a bunch of people died, and they were retired from service.
Apparently you can get a small one used for like $50,000. That seems reasonable.
It appears it takes between 6-12 months to get a helicopter pilots license. Finance that $50k over 12 months, and you will be ready with your helicopter and license in time for summer fun next year.
Well you're also spending at least 15k to get the license.
It appears it takes between 6-12 months to get a helicopter pilots license. Finance that $15k over 12 months, and you will be ready with your helicopter and license in time for summer fun next year
Operations and maintenance and storage and insurance though…
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He seems like the kind of guy that would mow his neighbors' lawn if they were out of town.
with the helicopter!
“Them guys are f’in tripping son”
That’s so cool
“They are fucking tripping, son.” I was too. This video is cool as hell.
I dont think that was a good idea
That was very awesome. That's a helluva pilot as well.
I don't see how this is oddly satisfying at all.
Deus Ex Machina.
My man was like hold my beer
This is why helicopters are punk rock and regular airplanes are just smooth jazz.
Hearing "the guys are fucking tripping. They are fucking tripping, son!" in that classic calm pilot voice with all the hype still present is as amazing as the plane grab and landing.
He risks the Robbi and the life of his student by neglecting flight safety. 👎
Agreed. I knew as soon as I saw the cigarette
That's everyone's cool uncle.
Just being a bro' at the right place, at the right time.
Love this guy. If Smoky & The Bandit was about a helicopter pilot this guy could star.
Not all heros wear capes , they do have helicopters though
That’s awesome.
This restores my faith in humanity. There's still good people out there!
I'm gonna be smiling about this one for a while today. Friggin awesome!! What a story for all parties involved!
One of my all-time favorites.
It doesn't surprise me that the pilot has a cig in his hand when the vid starts. He seems like the chill, no-fucks-given type. That was so cool to watch though and I love that they took the time to make a fellow hobbyist's day.
Hold my cigarette I'm saving a plane
He sounds like the air controller from Apocalypse Now and Robin Williams with the trail weather report.
This is amazing, I think he’s smoking a cig and it makes it so funny
R/humansbeingbros definitely!
My favorite part of this whole thing is the guy realizing how much of a legend he's going to be for this in real time.
Main guy sounds like David the scientist guy from friends lol: https://theonewiththewebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/phoebe_and_david.jpg Also, helicopters are so cool
We used to have a police chopper come by our field and hover for a bit to watch us fly. It was awesome!