And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
They’ll also do that if you don’t jack them up correctly. Fortunately, I was across the hangar when it fell off the jacks and wasn’t part of the crew who were trying to weigh it. Did get to fix a lot of the resulting dents tho.
Yes. I witnessed it at a low level over water then a short while later a water rescue, while fishing on the dam of a watershed camping out near a famous WW II 45th infantry training ground. It was one of those holy shit moments.
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ReplyDeleteBeen on one doing that.
ReplyDeleteAnd they can fly faster than most other helos, too.
ReplyDelete160th SOAR can do that
ReplyDeleteThat one sure is.
ReplyDeleteThey’ll also do that if you don’t jack them up correctly. Fortunately, I was across the hangar when it fell off the jacks and wasn’t part of the crew who were trying to weigh it. Did get to fix a lot of the resulting dents tho.
ReplyDeleteYes. Red Bull has an MBB 105 that can roll and loop.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
They can do anything. The question is 'can they do anything afterwards?'.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was thinking just about anything can do something at least one time.
DeleteYes, they can do that. And they've done more things that you don't want to know about. My brother told me, and I wish he hadn't.
ReplyDeleteUnless he was dodging enemy fire pilot may get a beating once on the ground.
ReplyDeleteHope he turned the fasten seat belt light on first
ReplyDeleteYes. I witnessed it at a low level over water then a short while later a water rescue, while fishing on the dam of a watershed camping out near a famous WW II 45th infantry training ground. It was one of those holy shit moments.
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I was blown away when I learned they can pack more water than a Sikorsky S-64E/F.
ReplyDeletethey sure can ... all the more reason to jump out.
ReplyDeleteChi.
Yes. And it will scare the crap out of you first time.
ReplyDeleteAnd the worst seat is the one just behind the door, the windmill seat.
ReplyDeleteSure It can fly like that, all the way to the crash site. But only once.
ReplyDelete"The one that rolled inverted" and if this doesn't scare hell out of you just reading it you have no imagination:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.chinook-helicopter.com/Flight_Fax/1998/Flight_Fax_May_1998.pdf
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ReplyDeleteThe actual flight capability is determined by the size of the cojones on the pilot on command.
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