Wrong. Augusta Westland
Yes, that sounds like fun.
The annual trip to Scilly was always brightened up when someone mentioned 1983
On 16 July 1983, British Airways Helicopters’ commercial S-61 G-BEON crashed in the southern Celtic Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, while en route from Penzance to St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly in thick fog. Only six of the 26 on board survived. It sparked a review of helicopter safety and was the worst civilian helicopter disaster in the UK until 1986
I once had a trip in the Glasgow copper chopper. We took off from it’s base by the Clyde over the river before climbing away ( the river being a ditching location in the event of engine failure after takeoff).
If you had the exit door on your left, you put your right hand under your arse during takeoff & landing. And the opposite if you sat on the right. This way you knew where the door was in the event of ditching in the river, when the heli would turn quickly upside down, due to the weight of the 2 engines on the top of the airframe. You could be disorientated easily by this and the dark water.
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Sounds like an engine fire rather than “mast bumping”, but to this day I’m half glad we ran out of cash when Sam and I did a road trip which was meant to have included a chopper flight through the Grand Canyon… Seems to be the #1 accident spot for terrain > floppychopter moments! 
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Only ever been in an Eurocopter AS365 and a Mosquito! Without the facility to glide, I hate the fucking things 
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Ashamed to say I had no idea those manoeuvres were even possible in choppers! Damned impressive!
It’s only a model.
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A flight in an old Mil Mi-8 was interesting, especially the couple of hops before proper takeoff - was never sure if that was a pre-flight check or if the thing just took a while to build up enough power.
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Pah…I bet String Fellow Hawk and Airwolf could show him a thing or two 
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Stringfellow- one word.
Argh, stupid auto correct!
Autocorrect - one word.
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Argh! It’s all going horribly wrong already and it’s only Monday.
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I guess it’s materials technology & nausea that prevents full size helicopters doing this.
But it shows the potential control of movement that can be achieved.
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Terrible his daughter at 13 years old was also killed 
We used those in NI to get down to the border as it was too dangerous to drive.
It was around the time when the fucking stupid yanks had supplied the IRA with 50 cal Barrett rifles. The pilot would have to come in at around 4,000 feet above the location and then drop like a fucking stone to about 50 feet where they would pretty much stop and land to make it harder for them to hit us.
I’ve got an old photo somewhere of me grinning like a cunt as we are about to be dropped in for a surveillance op in South Armagh around 1993.
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Well that and the lack of a need to fly upsidedown.
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Another drummer gone, Sean Reinert, who played with Cynic, Death and Giordian Knot.
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Could be a scaling issue. As you change the size of any 3D object, keeping the shape the same, the cross-sections of its structural members, which correspond to their strength, scale up as the square of the size but the mass, which often sets the forces they need to withstand, scales up as the cube of the size. So a member which can cope with the load when everything’s small can’t when everything gets larger.
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