Harriers, Helocopters, and Water, Oh My!

krash kendall · Oct 8, 2005

Harriers, Helicopters, and Water, Oh My!

Thought some of you guys would find these amusing.....

Bell 206 Jet Ranger

Harrier

skywalker · Oct 8, 2005

Wow. What an idiot, I hope that helo pilot died for his stupidity.

65stanger · Oct 9, 2005

I loved the commentator on the Bell Jet Ranger crash...........

slepe67 · Oct 9, 2005

And that, my friends, is what we in the rotary wing business call Dynamic Rollover...what was he thinking? I bet those were his last thoughts too...

krash kendall · Oct 9, 2005

You have to remember, the Jet Ranger was working perfectly. It flew him directly to the scene of the crash!

65stanger · Oct 9, 2005

Many, many moons ago (when I was in the AF), we were instructed that the OFFICIAL Air Force definition of crash is..:"A landing in which the vertical velocity is so great, and the time reducing it to zero is so short, that structural failure occurs."

StangDreamin' · Oct 9, 2005

65stanger said:
Many, many moons ago (when I was in the AF), we were instructed that the OFFICIAL Air Force definition of crash is..:"A landing in which the vertical velocity is so great, and the time reducing it to zero is so short, that structural failure occurs."

Isn't that similar to the MC's "unofficial" urging that Scarrier pilots try to stay with their ships above all else??? The idea being "If the pilot punches out, it's a crash. If he rides it down then it's only a hard landing. If the "flying surfaces failed upon landing' because the tip gear punches through the wings themselves (or if the wing spars themselves fail); hey, it's still just a hard landing, because officially "the AV-8B very rarely crashes".
If the military had wanted a kid with an engineering background and a blown out knee "back in the day"; I think I still would have preferred a Warthog (or even a flying eggbeater) over a Scarrier. 'Course, the Army agrees with me (over the Corps) on that; but that's not all that surprising

krash kendall · Oct 10, 2005

Hey SD, that particular harrier incident was a complete engine failure - and I swear that pilot landed right back on the plane, so he only left the ship for a few seconds before returning. Could he chalk that one up as a hard landing? Oh, and speaking of hard landings........

Student pilot trying to land an Airbus

65stanger · Oct 10, 2005

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, if you can re-use the aircraft it's even better!

slepe67 · Oct 10, 2005

Roger that, since 12APR04, and recently as June, I've "spent" about $96mill in Iraq. Walked away from both without a scratch. One was a shoot down, the other a "hard landing". Both helos destroyed. Oops. HEY! I'm a gunner, not a pilot, it wasnt MY fault....as always FLY LUCKY! It'll out perform skill any day!

65stanger · Oct 10, 2005

slepe67 said:
Roger that, since 12APR04, and recently as June, I've "spent" about $96mill in Iraq. Walked away from both without a scratch. One was a shoot down, the other a "hard landing". Both helos destroyed. Oops. HEY! I'm a gunner, not a pilot, it wasnt MY fault....as always FLY LUCKY! It'll out perform skill any day!

God Bless!

StangDreamin' · Oct 11, 2005

slepe67 said:
Roger that, since 12APR04, and recently as June, I've "spent" about $96mill in Iraq. Walked away from both without a scratch. One was a shoot down, the other a "hard landing". Both helos destroyed. Oops. HEY! I'm a gunner, not a pilot, it wasnt MY fault....as always FLY LUCKY! It'll out perform skill any day!

65stanger said:
God Bless!

I'll agree with my large hirsute friend
And don't forget that you need to fly lucky while in the States as well. Wasn't all that many weeks ago that a pilot tried to duplicate the Scarrier video up this thread - only his bird splashed down in somebody's backyard swimming pool in a neighborhood too close to the runway approach here in Yuma Marine Corps is still working out how much that's gonna cost!

65stanger · Oct 11, 2005

StangDreamin' said:
...................And don't forget that you need to fly lucky while in the States as well. Wasn't all that many weeks ago that a pilot tried to duplicate the Scarrier video up this thread - only his bird splashed down in somebody's backyard swimming pool in a neighborhood too close to the runway approach here in Yuma Marine Corps is still working out how much that's gonna cost!

I thought the pilot did that intentionally 'cause the ground crew "FORGOT" to wash the bird..................

limey66 · Oct 11, 2005

I was at that airshow where the Harrier 'went in'. Thank goodness it was over the sea, and not on land - there would have been flaming bits all over the place.

Scary, man.

All pilots that eject join a special club that even has it's own tie...some consolation!!

StangDreamin' · Oct 11, 2005

limey66 said:
I was at that airshow where the Harrier 'went in'. Thank goodness it was over the sea, and not on land - there would have been flaming bits all over the place.

Scary, man.

Scary? The bird that flamed out over our town was carrying a couple "live but not armed" 500 pounders and 300-odd rounds of 25mm. That's scary!

There were 1250 residences evacuated from the 2km "blast radius" for 14 hours after the crash; until almost all the 25 mike-mike was recovered. Plane landed mostly in a private swimming pool, but it "overlapped" into three other backyards (there was an intersection of 4 property boundaries under the port wing root).

limey66 · Oct 12, 2005

StangDreamin' said:
Scary? The bird that flamed out over our town was carrying a couple "live but not armed" 500 pounders and 300-odd rounds of 25mm. That's scary!...QUOTE]

OK, so you got me there, but you don't expect to see a 'plane just fall out of the air as you look at it...

limey66 · Oct 14, 2005

Another one for you - a still this time...

http://www.leenks.com/gallery282-25.htm

krash kendall · Oct 14, 2005

Limey, that was a cargo plane that taxied over a seneca. Probably didn't even feel it.

limey66 · Oct 16, 2005

Looks like something out of a Bond movie - but then it would have happened mid-air...

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