Aviation

[SEIndSAM]

 

[BugI02]

Nooooooo!!!

Helicopters are unnatural acts. They beat the air into submission until mother nature gives up and demands they get away from earth.

Nothing but a loose collection of parts all vibrating in unison.

A monument to single point modes of mechanical failure

 

[semperfi211]

 

[BugI02]

B52J for the win

 

[BE Mike]

 

[semperfi211]

 

[SEIndSAM]

 

[SEIndSAM]

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I’ve watched these guys do their autorotation drills when over a large flat area. But to do it where your choice is an ocean, a mountain side, or a sliver of beach…the fact no one died, amazing.

 

[BE Mike]

I’ve watched these guys do their autorotation drills when over a large flat area. But to do it where your choice is an ocean, a mountain side, or a sliver of beach…the fact no one died, amazing.

Wow, his options were extremely limited. Those choppers can be put down on a postage stamp! Like they say, "Any landing you walk away from is a good one!"

 

[semperfi211]

This is going to be at one of the remaining hangars at what was MCAS El Toro. I worked in that hangar in the 80s with VMA-211. I will be there in 2026.

 

[Stang51d]

The wife got her first ride in the Hatz a couple of weeks ago. She got cold on me. lol.

 

[Stang51d]

Flying into Sky King a couple of years ago in the L3.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[D K]

Flying into Sky King a couple of years ago in the L3.

Nice greaser, sir. Pancake breakfast?

 

[Stang51d]

Nice greaser, sir. Pancake breakfast?

Just a little fly-in