Engage, Adapt and Overcome!

Cool picture. However, the saying is, "Improvise, Adapt, & Overcome!" It is also a USMC saying. The pic ic of a US Army CH-47 Chinook in A'tsan (it looks like), not a Marine helo. It is also a common practice in mountainous and/or urban terrain to do a tail down only hover.

That's one of our birds in 2004.  I know both guys who were on the controls.  Good dudes, but then again, most Hookers are.  Its them sneaky Blackhawk types you've gotta watch out for! ;)

 Jon

Drivin the airborne muscle car with guns....

Cobrahistorian wrote:

That's one of our birds in 2004.  I know both guys who were on the controls.  Good dudes, but then again, most Hookers are.  Its them sneaky Blackhawk types you've gotta watch out for! ;)  Jon Drivin the airborne muscle car with guns....

Somethin tells me you have a thing about Blackhawk drivers

Me? 

Actually, no.  Just the opposite.  Blackhawk drivers tend to have issues with Apache guys.

Jon

Heloguy wrote:

I'm just admiring the landing at whatever altitude that is...so much power in that bird.  When we land in a search-and-rescue in the mtns, it's just about 25 gallons of fuel on board our A-Star B3...that thing probably has half that alone in its fuel lines at any given time...  Just kidding, just kidding, I know it holds much less than that, just hyperbole!

Do you work for PHi, Rogers, CHP or Mediflight? We get B3's from all of those frequently, just wondering if I might have landed you in Ahwahnee or El Cap meadow at some point. 

Those B3s sure are popular, too bad there isn't a kit in 1/72 I could do at least 1/2 dozen of them.

They may only be a single engine but they sure do well at altitude.

Aaronw wrote:

Those B3s sure are popular, too bad there isn't a kit in 1/72 I could do at least 1/2 dozen of them. They may only be a single engine but they sure do well at altitude.

Yes to all the above.  That Turbomecca engine is notoriously reliable and we all love that aircraft.  In fact, the B3 is the only helo to have landed atop Mt. Everest.  It's really neat, it's on the Eurocopter website, basically stripped down, put the toes down for 2 min. and just auto'd all the way down. 

sigh...i never once got to work on the T'meca....all my Astars had Lyc 101s in them....ugh!

 I went back to Rogers to visit a few years ago to see how the old place had changed, actually it was the last year that they had the Doolittle Raid at FAT, so I guess it was 2000, and they had an F with a T'meca hung on it. 

 Well, maybe someaday in the future if I go back rotary and quit flying this starchwing bound desk!

David

Jon...I am heart broken!  You know that Blackhawk guys NEVER give Apache guys a hard time (Saving the expected digs).

Someone actually sent me the same picture as part of a group e-mail expressing amazement at the skill of the pilots.  I never did respond but was tempted to reply that this is simply a combination of basic skills, it is a hover with a pivot point.  That being said, it does require very good crew co-ordination to do this safely.  Pinacles are actually pretty fun to do.