Thanks phonics.
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Video of it up on reddit/youtube. You dont see the crash but you see it beginning to spin out of control.
https://youtu.be/G0yU_W8kE6o
That takeoff looked ominous.
Not instantly enough to just throttle off and plonk back on the pitch? Or is a takeoff kinda final when it comes to choppers? Granted, the pitchside wouldn't be empty but you'd crash at a slower speed.
There was smoke billowing out of the back before they even took off. It should never have left the ground.
That's condensation surely.
Is it? Is that a thing? I've never seen it before, but I don't really watch many helicopter take off videos.
Yeah I dunno, but you'd hope that they'd know not to take off if that sort of thing was unusual.
I think that's normal. They have a pipe there that probably needed to vent in the cold weather.
Just like the exhaust pipes of your car smoke for a few minutes.
That's just vapour or exhaust gases, the way it spins in the air is absolutely a failure of the rear rotor, an engine or transmission problem would have affected the main rotor as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46100722
Will people never learn.
"How awesome to spend your honeymoon with Jesus"
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Some friends wanted me and my wife to join them on a Grand Canyon helicopter tour when we were in Vegas. I said absolutely no chance. You'll never find me in one of those death machines.
I flew from Belfast to northern England in one before and I always promised myself it would be the last time I ever set foot in one.
The picture. The quotes. That article wouldn't be out of place on The Onion. Fucking 'murica.
:D
I did this a few months back:
https://www.goorange.co.nz/en/experi...ver-heli-raft/
Helicoptering into a narrow gorge, followed by grade 5 whitewater rafting down the river.
It was awesome.
Alan bursts into the lead of the national grief competition.
Still probably more accurate than Garth Crooks submission.
Can't really begrudge it.