My first autorotation
Jul 19, 2020 17:31:29 #
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Jul 19, 2020 19:22:32 #
RichinSeattle wrote:
But, you survived it. Hueys are amazing aircraft. Got any action pix?
Most any action pics I have are old 8mm movies. My Dad spliced them on one very large reel. They might not even be viewable anymore and last time I saw them I tried to find an 8mm projector but never located one. Most 35mm was snapshots of this and that.
Jul 19, 2020 19:30:26 #
shudder....................I avoid such things.......always have, always will!
Jul 20, 2020 05:23:49 #
Jul 20, 2020 06:35:31 #
Mine went much the same! I was not busy one day in the control tower at Bergstrom AFB in Austin Texas in the early 70's when we received a call to help out with a UH-1 test. I was eager to help out and had no idea what they were going to do. There were several other people on board who really got a kick out of watching the terror on my face as they cut the engine. I would love to do that again.
Jul 20, 2020 06:57:49 #
That youngster looks as though he may have been traumatized for life.
Jul 20, 2020 07:12:13 #
Wallen wrote:
Lucky you, i can afford only to be an aircraft mechanic...
Many of us paid the price with 4 years of military service including one of those in Vietnam. I don't regret any of that.
Jul 20, 2020 09:45:49 #
Quick story related to the picture, ( I have never had the pleasure of autorotating).
I took my 5-year-old daughter standing on her toes to get past the height restriction on a loop de loop coaster at Six Flags near Atlanta many years ago (she's 38 now). after the first of two loops, I looked at her and she had that look on her face, I thought to my self as I held her clinching hand, I have ruined coasters for her.
As we rolled to a stop to get off she looked at me and said "Let's do it again" Such relief I can not remember!
I took my 5-year-old daughter standing on her toes to get past the height restriction on a loop de loop coaster at Six Flags near Atlanta many years ago (she's 38 now). after the first of two loops, I looked at her and she had that look on her face, I thought to my self as I held her clinching hand, I have ruined coasters for her.
As we rolled to a stop to get off she looked at me and said "Let's do it again" Such relief I can not remember!
Jul 20, 2020 11:53:10 #
Jul 20, 2020 12:04:41 #
That first autorotation was certainly interesting. I must have looked like that kid when the instructor chopped the power and dumped the collective! After Vietnam the first time, I became a flight instructor pilot and learned to love doing autorotations. Doing one in a CH-47 Chinook was different, too.
Jul 20, 2020 12:28:58 #
Leo_B
Loc: Houston suburb
I felt a little like that doing stalls in a Cessna. I can't imagine autorotation.
Jul 20, 2020 12:54:33 #
Leo_B wrote:
I felt a little like that doing stalls in a Cessna. I can't imagine autorotation.
Once you realize that you still have full control of the helicopter, it’s just a matter of timing.
Jul 20, 2020 13:56:41 #
paulrph1
Loc: Washington, Utah
Huey Driver wrote:
My first autorotation
happy, terrified, really terrified, ???
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