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Thu May 18, 2023 4:41 pm
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Prang Bots
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Ex-Ascot » Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:16 am
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It is rumour that we have one in here. Just the pilot on board, dead. Not a NR a NZ. They have managed to keep it quiet for six days. I will not...
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I remember the 'theory' in the Mk 3 but we were only allowed to try it to the hover from the 150ft jump height, in daylight, over the airfield! It...
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Tue May 16, 2023 7:22 pm
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AS350 Downwind approach Canada - oops!
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CharlieOneSix » Wed May 10, 2023 2:41 pm
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The guys on TOP Rotorheads are wetting themselves about whether or not the crash is due to Vortex Ring State. As one fine fellow put it - it matters...
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It seems to be mandatory for bystanders and video takers to shout 'Oh my God!' repeatedly in clips of accidents, crashes or anything out of the...
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Last post by FD2
Sun May 14, 2023 4:02 am
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Flyer Magazine 20/04/2023 - aerobatic helicopter pilot Aaron Fitzgerald
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OneHungLow » Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:34 am
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From Flyer magazine.
Join us tonight at 7:30pm U.K . time for our weekly Livestream on Youtube.
This week we'll be discussing all things AERO...
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.....It seems that it took the super skillful Hoffman to uncover a vice in the Bo105's handling regime, sadly losing his life in the process! .......
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:34 pm
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Laser pen attacks on police helicopters
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ricardian » Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:22 pm
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Police Condemn “Stupid and Dangerous” Laser Pen Attacks on Helicopters, Two Incidents in 24 Hours
In two separate incidents occurring within 24...
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Was with an extremely senior British judge here a few weeks ago. Pity I didn't mention it to him. When I say senior he was a Lord and KG.
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:22 am
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Are there any wealthy private helicopter pilots?
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TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:44 am
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£550.00 an hour
While it is is highly unprofessional to get involved in a debate with ATC in flight, and probably pointless thereafter, I do have a...
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Lots of rotary action from the Cheltenham direction this evening and seeing as no favourites won today, guess that bookies are using them!
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Last post by Woody
Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:48 pm
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Fly it like you stole it...
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G~Man » Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:28 pm
Note it was a Bell 429, Not a 407 as stated.
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Helicopter heist goes awry: Thief crashes stolen chopper at Sacramento...
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Last post by G~Man
Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:28 pm
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CHC sells ex-Babcock OHS to South African Company
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:20 pm
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CHC Helicopters has agreed the sale of Offshore Helicopter Services (OHS) UK – a business it acquired from Babcock before UK competition regulators...
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I was apt to try and better understand why the regulators may have belatedly blocked the deal. This article was pretty clear...
One wonders...
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:52 am
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Midair midwifery!
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TheGreenAnger » Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:37 pm
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A woman has said she could not have felt safer as she gave birth, even though it happened on a rescue helicopter whizzing her from the Isles of...
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As an EMT I was told that no one died in an ambulance. They only died once they reached the hospital.
Hence the term DOA.
Now days paramedics are...
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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:44 pm
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V-280 VALOR
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FD2 » Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:24 am
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US reveals futuristic helicopter that will replace Black Hawks
The new V-280 Valor aircraft will fly at speeds similar to a fixed-wing plane, and...
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Boac No common sense or interest in the subject you're writing about maybe. Papers used to have defence or aviation correspondents, who knew what...
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Last post by FD2
Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:51 am
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Helicopter Mid Air Recovery.
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TheGreenAnger » Sun Nov 06, 2022 1:40 pm
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This subject was suggested by this thread...
Rocket Lab
Kiwi based company seems to be onto something here, despite the fact that their most...
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The S92 which they are using to try the airborne capture has just been down in the South Island again. There doesn't seem to be anything in the local...
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Last post by FD2
Mon Nov 07, 2022 10:15 am
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Tue Nov 01, 2022 6:14 pm
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'Competitive Rate of Pay' for King's Flight Pilot
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FD2 » Wed Oct 12, 2022 4:33 am
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Wanted - a pilot for the King! Palace seeks new helicopter pilot for elite unit on 'competitive salary' and with experience of working with 'VVIPs'...
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So when you were flying royals around in your VC10 it was because they couldn't justify having such a large aircraft permanently allocated to the...
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Last post by Ex-Ascot
Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:40 am
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Helicopter crash in New Zealand
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FD2 » Thu Oct 18, 2018 3:17 am
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Tragically, another crash, this time at Wanaka, South Island. I say tragically because the family lost another son a few months ago in a helicopter...
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Update, finally:
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Last post by FD2
Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:27 am
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Last post by G-CPTN
Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:22 pm
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Yet Another Future Air Taxi Appears
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FD2 » Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:52 am
Yet another company convinces reporter that this is the air taxi of the future! I think I have been reading about this sort of thing since scanning...
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Last post by FD2
Wed Oct 05, 2022 1:52 am
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Helicopter's electromagnetic survey gear hits 11kv power line - Aberdeenshire
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:05 pm
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This happened about 20 miles from us this morning. The incident occurs in the first few seconds of the video when the survey gear strikes the 11kv...
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Worked with a survey team with a 20ft cylindrical boom on a 120 ft strop, the flying was c/o at 200ft using a Rad alt. The survey was on an area...
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Last post by bob2s
Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:01 pm
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A busy morning....
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:12 am
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A busy morning at the ILS ABZ now the fog is lifting.....
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Too busy for # ThickLizzy
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Last post by Woody
Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:42 am
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Kobe Bryant dead, private Sikorsky S-76 down
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probes » Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:34 pm
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Kobe Bryant: Basketball legend dies in helicopter crash
Five people killed, CNN says.
R.I.P.
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What is wrong with police et al that they compound the grief and misery of the families by behaving in such a disgusting way.
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:42 am
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Ideal for TGA - a new career!!
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:58 pm
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Interesting,
In somewhere around 1970 I decided that Helicopters were the future and that is what I wanted to fly.
I further decided that, to fly...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:10 am
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Bristow goes long on e-VTOL
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TheGreenAnger » Sun Aug 21, 2022 5:23 am
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I wonder what Alan Bristow would have made of this?
For the vast majority of its existence Bristow Group has been synonymous with helicopter...
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So five firm orders for a design that is the result of 3 years of precise design and development that takes inspiration from the Artic Tern....
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Sun Aug 21, 2022 6:47 pm
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Cabri lost after a training sortie on the 11th August
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TheGreenAnger » Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:07 am
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A HELICOPTER crashed while attempting to land at Goodwood Aerodrome.
The Cabri G2 two-seat chopper crashed at the airfield near Chichester shortly...
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I think that his training fees have just gone up.
Our lot won't let even high hours PPL's move the aircraft out of the hangar after somebody...
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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:16 am
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2015 Fox Glacier 350 Crash
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FD2 » Fri May 17, 2019 11:14 am
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The November 2015 Squirrel crash, into a crevasse of the Fox Glacier on the west coast of New Zealand, which killed 6 passengers and one pilot has...
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Coroner calls for stronger aviation rules after Fox Glacier helicopter crash (2015)
How did this take 7 years?
In an...
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Fri Aug 12, 2022 5:43 am
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Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:08 am
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Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:06 pm
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