I'm supposed to study the history of the Alpes-Adria-Region for my exam tomorrow and I've been reading TVtropes.org for the last hour and a half. Fuck you internet!
What the shit? You're not supposed to do that with a helicopter!
It is a Eurocopter BO-105 CBS 4 Twin engine helicopter, with a rigid rotor system. The fixed rotor(And batshit crazy pilot) is why it can do acrobatics.
However, if you tried to do 3/4 of the stuff in the video in a regular chopper, you would die a horrible, fiery death. There is precisely one thing done in that chopper than you can do in some regular choppers, which is where he climbs near-vertically, and then turns on his rotor axis, so that the chopper is nose-down - you can do this in SOME choppers, but in others, you'd die horribly.
Christ, on re-watching that, I can think of at least a half dozen pilots who would have trouble moving like that in a Cessna 150 Aerobat. This dude is a legend.
What the shit? You're not supposed to do that with a helicopter!
Somewhere underground, Igor Sikorski smiles. Also, it's worth noting that even in spite of the already-specialized rotor system, that helicopter is still special. There's supposed to be crazy redundancy on all of the systems.
What the shit? You're not supposed to do that with a helicopter!
I've always wanted to get a pilot license.
Other than the possibility of lack of free time, there isn't anything from stopping you. Just promise me you'll change your last name to Secord and try and find a rocket jetpack suit.
He doesn't really backflip so much as freefalls and straightens out before he hits the water.
At about 36 seconds in, he does a powered loop with a half turn at the end, and it's harder to tell with the way the footage is cut, but it looks like he does another at 1:05 or so. Not to mention he does both Aileron rolls(Well, I suppose the equivalent, since I don't think he has ailerons) and proper barrel rolls in a helo.
And considering that he's the ONLY Aerobatics rated chopper pilot according to the FAA, I'm not gonna dump on him too much, and certainly I'm not going to criticize his technique.. He's approximately umpty hojillion times better a chopper pilot that I am. He's on virgin territory here, if he wants to call it a flip, fuckit, it's a flip.
Is there anything with a motor or engine that you arenotlicensed to operate?
Yes, A chopper, for a start. I can take off shakily, move slowly, and very timidly set down, but I'm nowhere near good enough to be licensed. Planes are easy, but my license expired a fair while ago now, and I was never commercial rated, and while I have the ability and knowledge for a lot of larger machinery, I'm only ticketed for forklifts, skid-steer loaders, and backhoes. I only hold a Personal watercraft License so that I don't get arrested when I ride my Jet-Bike/Wet-Bike(whichever you want to call it), so any powered watercraft that's bigger than a tinny, I'm not licensed for, except I did hold my seaplane cert, but that's pretty easy to get if you already have a pilot's licence. And of course, I have a motorbike and Car license.
Well, to be fair, it's only my Pilot's licence, Car/moto license, and Personal watercraft license that I set out specifically to get, the rest I kinda stumbled into.
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I'm supposed to study the history of the Alpes-Adria-Region for my exam tomorrow and I've been reading TVtropes.org for the last hour and a half. Fuck you internet!
Bravo, sir.
I'll be buying a few of these, methinks.
Her influence over Len is somewhat fearful.
Bonus - Pretty good song.
However, if you tried to do 3/4 of the stuff in the video in a regular chopper, you would die a horrible, fiery death. There is precisely one thing done in that chopper than you can do in some regular choppers, which is where he climbs near-vertically, and then turns on his rotor axis, so that the chopper is nose-down - you can do this in SOME choppers, but in others, you'd die horribly.
Christ, on re-watching that, I can think of at least a half dozen pilots who would have trouble moving like that in a Cessna 150 Aerobat. This dude is a legend.
EDIT: Dammit Churba.
I've always wanted to get a pilot license.
Not to mention he does both Aileron rolls(Well, I suppose the equivalent, since I don't think he has ailerons) and proper barrel rolls in a helo.
And considering that he's the ONLY Aerobatics rated chopper pilot according to the FAA, I'm not gonna dump on him too much, and certainly I'm not going to criticize his technique.. He's approximately umpty hojillion times better a chopper pilot that I am. He's on virgin territory here, if he wants to call it a flip, fuckit, it's a flip.
I only hold a Personal watercraft License so that I don't get arrested when I ride my Jet-Bike/Wet-Bike(whichever you want to call it), so any powered watercraft that's bigger than a tinny, I'm not licensed for, except I did hold my seaplane cert, but that's pretty easy to get if you already have a pilot's licence.
And of course, I have a motorbike and Car license.
Like Baden Powell Said, kids - Be Prepared.
The Youtube video already serves as a great ad, though.