Sunday Pic of the Day

[Lostinthewoods]

you can keep them...lol got some experience with them as well including watching one lose a engine in a hover on approach and have nasty hard landing. better rides than some other options but i never was a fan

When they brought them out to NM to start practicing austere location landing, I can’t tell you how many engines we crapped out from……. Tumbleweeds…..
I get what you mean though. The design was scary. Maintenance hours verse each flight hour were astronomical.

Growing up on 53s and transitioning to the CVs was definitely eye opening.

I got stranded one time out in the middle of the AZ desert because we got a chip detection flag multiple times, so the new guy just dropped us straight down and we bounced.

When that happened I experienced one of the most expensive pizza deliveries to date. One CV went back to Vegas to grab some engine folks and the other went to an airstrip about 30 miles away, got us dominos, dropped it off, then went back home.

 

[Hem]

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Ive been missing out last few weeks.
Beautiful fish Unit.

 

[el unit]

Ive been missing out last few weeks.
Beautiful fish Unit.

Finally caught one- a lot of skunks lately.

 

[Hem]

Finally caught one- a lot of skunks lately.

My wife and I were paddling somewhat locally this morning. Mid morning there was alot of fish working surface/ sub surface. The people fishing were not having steady action.
It can be tough. Lots of insect activity but fish being selective.

 

[Wildabeest]

The Osprey is a complex versatile tool.
The fast Apache is really cool.
The Blackhawk is a utility and really neat.

But as a proven vertical lift ... the UH-1 Iroquois HUEY can’t be beat!

I wrote software to do rotor smoothing on all of those.

 

[BAKPAKR]

This thing is fun! First attempt at groups at 100 yards.

 

[WesternWyoming]

The Osprey is a complex versatile tool.
The fast Apache is really cool.
The Blackhawk is a utility and really neat.

But as a proven vertical lift ... the UH-1 Iroquois HUEY can’t be beat!

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But the Lama is nimble at 10,000'.

 

[mtmiller]

 

[Elktrack]

 

[elkduds]

Finally caught one- a lot of skunks lately.

One worth waiting for! Beautiful fish, thanks for posting. Why did they need to evolve such elaborate coloration? I suspect the Creator was just reminding us who is really in charge.

 

[Straight Arrow]

I wrote software to do rotor smoothing on all of those.

Bless you, Wildabeest! Back in the day in Vietnam, prior to "software", we had a taped flag on a pole which would be eased toward the rotor disk, with fresh red marker on one blade tip and black on the other. Then the mechanic would adjust rotor blade connecting rod bolts a few turns to bring the tips into the same plane, to smooth the rotor vibrations. I would then test fly the Huey to determine smoothness once alignment was achieved. We would place bets on how many bolt turns it would take to achieve smoothness.
After successful test flight to certify smoothness and air worthiness, I always took the mechanic crew up for a flight to complete an engine topping test ... often reaching ten thousand feet altitude, which was a cooling relief for all aboard. Then I would abruptly bottom the pitch and enter autorotation. It was kinda like driving a Cadillac off a cliff ... with the FNG mechanic being suddenly thrust into the tight extent of his seat belt, with the experienced mechanics laughing as they knew what I was up to and had tightened their belts.

 

[shrapnel]

They are really cool and fun to fly on.
I took a small unit to an interesting place during the Afghanistan withdrawal. View attachment 414695View attachment 414696

In Russia, we were lucky to even live after a ride in an Aeroflot helicopter…