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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mora on December 16, 2003, 03:17:32 PM
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This has been propably posted before, but this is damn funny clip.
http://www.camp.com/vids/helocrash.wmv
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Yeah, its been posted earlier this year, but its still funny to watch.
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That explains why Saddam looked to be in such bad shape.:rofl :rofl
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Earlier this year a R22 went down north of our airport while practicing autorotations (irony).
Was talking to one of our FAA examiners the other day and he was telling me a week or so ago a student from the flight school across the street was on his way back from his long cross country. Put the plane down about a mile from the airport on a street due to engine failure. Managed to not hit any poles, wires or cars. When they took the plane apart to bring it home the FAA noted "It didn't really leak a lot of fuel from the wings when we took them off."
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Did he get out ok? trying to see if i can make out the code on the tail/front of the Helo so i can search for it, they look different though, tail looks like N01DN or something, and front N101D
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Thanks for posting this again. I had tried the previous link posted earlier (to put in another helocopter thread) but it wasn't working. Gotta save this one at home.
BTW...
The guy had bought the helo but hadn't had any training in it. He walked away from the accident. (this deduced from the film)
MiniD
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This proves, once again, those with the most money are not nessessarily the sharpest knife in the drawer. :rofl
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The best part is the camera man just telling him to stay the hell away from it.
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The best example of More money than Brains that I've every seen.
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Seems like he has absolutely no idea how to control that thing. Reminds me of a friend who once bought a RC-plane and wouldn't let me show how to fly it...He managed to stay airborne for half a minute before nosediving it in.
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ROFLMAO, looked just like my first couple of helo flights in MS FS2004.:D
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The man flying that helicopter is Jim Wright, the builder and flyer of the Hughes RH1 racer replica. He was killed earlier this year when the racer made a forced landing in Yellowstone National Park on it's way back from Oshkosh 2003.
I saw the plane at Oshkosh, and I wonder how a man who had such wonderful craftsmanship and attention to detail could be so foolish. The plane was immaculate. Some say that he took off with a known gearbox problem on his last flight. I guess good craftsmanship doesn't imply common sense.
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http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/
Just unbelievable this guy could have been so stupid.
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Wow that is a cool looking AC!
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so this is the dude they are calling hog?
you can see the stick and his hand dosen't seem to be on it.
did he just rev the motor not knowing he had positive pitch set and accidently take off?
dont know but he just looked shocked his body wasen't reacting like a pilots. and the stick wasent movin.
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Originally posted by mora
http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/
Just unbelievable this guy could have been so stupid.
Mora what the heck are you smoking.
Did you read the website, or know anything about the Late Mr. Wright. I followed this from the early creation of the H-1, everyone in the EAA community felt a great sarrow when he died. With the loss of the H-1 and Wright there may not be another flyable repoduction ever again.
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Originally posted by nuchpatrick
Mora what the heck are you smoking.
Did you read the website, or know anything about the Late Mr. Wright. I followed this from the early creation of the H-1, everyone in the EAA community felt a great sarrow when he died. With the loss of the H-1 and Wright there may not be another flyable repoduction ever again.
I think mora, like most others, is amazed that someone with such a stellar background and reputation in the aviation buisness would do something as stupid as 1) try to fly a helocopter without any prior instruction or 2) fly a 1 of a kind aircraft cross country with a known gearbox problem.
It's not what he did... it's what he undid.
MiniD
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In my experience as a pilot around other pilots. There is precious little sympathy for fellow pilots who screw up or do something stupid
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That looks like my flights in a helo in X-Plane. Why the hell would you try to operate something without any training?
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Originally posted by Mini D
I think mora, like most others, is amazed that someone with such a stellar background and reputation in the aviation buisness would do something as stupid as 1) try to fly a helocopter without any prior instruction or 2) fly a 1 of a kind aircraft cross country with a known gearbox problem.
It's not what he did... it's what he undid.
MiniD
Exactly.
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Clicky no work, I dont see any choppers.
:D
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HAHA :rofl that was to funny, I never seen this one before.
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Originally posted by mora
http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/
Just unbelievable this guy could have been so stupid.
Mora, question, how do you know it is the same guy?
I have never heard this before, if what you contend is true, and they are on in the same, then your statment is quite correct.
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Originally posted by MarkVZ
The man flying that helicopter is Jim Wright, the builder and flyer of the Hughes RH1 racer replica. He was killed earlier this year when the racer made a forced landing in Yellowstone National Park on it's way back from Oshkosh 2003.
I saw the plane at Oshkosh, and I wonder how a man who had such wonderful craftsmanship and attention to detail could be so foolish. The plane was immaculate. Some say that he took off with a known gearbox problem on his last flight. I guess good craftsmanship doesn't imply common sense.
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Another one. (http://yonkis.com/media/salvamem.wmv)
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Now, this was really imaginative? :)
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THat last 1 was poetic...
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My Source (http://forums.avi8.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=000032)
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Originally posted by mora
Another one. (http://yonkis.com/media/salvamem.wmv)
That was SO awesome.
Very FDB.