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Zooming along in this bliss state 50 ft above the ice with pressure ridges flashing by on an intensely bright, blue-sky day was a truly meditative experience.

Mar 14, Heli chopping trees down in Vietnam. Just in the middle of a good book, the plot talks about a pilot in Vietnam flying Hueys, and specifically when extracting troops from a hastily made LZ if the hole in the trees made wasnt big enough then the pilot would carefully trim light vegetation out of the way to make it big enough to land.

A confined area take off consists of backing up the Helicopter as far as possible and then executing a high power, high angle take off until clearing the trees. Upon clearing the trees. The tail rotor was clear, so I moved over to the side with the half-inch size branches as much as I could, then I started to descend and just cut our way down through the trees. There was shit flying everywhere, but we got down to the crater and got everybody on shrubcleanup.barted Reading Time: 5 mins.

They said that the Army helo pilots were truly amazing - traveling in a beat up, bullet hole ridden, old Huey that barely ran at over knots with their skids 12 inches above a river, flying INTO trees and cutting ’em apart with the rotor blades while executing a rescue, that sort of thing.

Every military pilot has their own specialty. May 31, It took Baca and Liss, along with a second helicopter piloted by Swickard and engineer Al Croteau, 11 hours to evacuate the men. On their final run, the defense perimeter was under the rotor blades. In the film, the men return to the scene of their amazing rescue four decades later.

Feb 16, It is a fact that helicopter tail rotors are instinctively drawn toward trees, stumps, rocks, etc. While it may be possible to ward off this natural event some of the time, it cannot, despite the best efforts of the crew, always be prevented. It’s just what they shrubcleanup.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. Sep 20, Trimming trees has never been more intense. Watch as Treeline Helicopters Inc. takes an Aerial 10 bladed saw through a Chatley Springs, North.

Nov 16, Mi. Sep 16, #6. this was in the comments below the vid from the filmer. The inventor of the saw got it hung up in a tree on the first flight. And ran the helicopter out of san jose fallen tree. The current owner of the saw read about it in a newspaper and bought the saw and wrecked helicopter from his widow.

The Quiet One's modifications included an extra main rotor blade, changes to the tips on the main blades, and engine adjustments that allowed the pilot to slow the main rotor speed, making the blades quieter see How To Hush a Helicopter, p.

They held the US patent on this device until. Sep 28, The pilot makes pass after pass, trimming trees both high and low to carve a neat hallway. Jesse Skipper's one of the ground crew members, who helps with refueling and.