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Old 02-11-2013, 08:43 AM
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Old 02-11-2013, 09:23 AM
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Looks like we will have to send them another Cobra now.. Glad no one was hurt..
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Lost to the ZR1, so he committed seppuku. Only honorable thing to do.
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F****** idiot. He had nowhere near enough altitude to wing-over like that. When you get to the peak of that maneuver, since the blades are at that point vertical instead of horizontal, the aircraft stalls and altitude is needed to have enough room to get enough airflow to recover.
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"Typical cobra driver" now spans modes of tranport.
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"Typical cobra driver" now spans modes of tranport.



Looked to me as if he was trying to show out a little bit.
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"typical cobra driver" now spans modes of tranport. :d
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Old 02-12-2013, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by KissMyTushZ28
F****** idiot. He had nowhere near enough altitude to wing-over like that. When you get to the peak of that maneuver, since the blades are at that point vertical instead of horizontal, the aircraft stalls and altitude is needed to have enough room to get enough airflow to recover.
Rookie pilot trying to show off maybe? I'm sure he learned a very valuable lesson.
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Old 03-04-2013, 07:15 PM
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He exceeded the aircraft's handling capabilities and drooped the rotor by demanding more power than the engine could offer the rotor system as he attempted to recover.

Poor matchup anyways, that old Cobra only has a single 1,800HP engine and isn't very fast. Modern equivalents have two engines, with the aircraft pushing close to 3,000HP per engine.
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He exceeded the aircraft's handling capabilities and drooped the rotor by demanding more power than the engine could offer the rotor system as he attempted to recover.

Poor matchup anyways, that old Cobra only has a single 1,800HP engine and isn't very fast. Modern equivalents have two engines, with the aircraft pushing close to 3,000HP per engine.
Well not only that, but with a rotory aircraft no lift can be achieved when it's on it's side! The rotors must be able to push DOWN towards the ground to achieve lift. He just made a very stupid/rookie mistake that could have gotten him and many others killed by not paying attention to his altitude while trying to perform a maneuver such as that! He didn't even get the Helo leveled back out before hitting the ground. Either he just said "**** it I don't know my altitude and don't care." Or somehow he confused his AGL altitude with ASL altitude(which again is a very stupid mistake!). But either way, he should've at least have been able to visually tell he didn't have enough altitude to perform a wing over like that.

I believe the Bell AH-1 Cobra top speed is only around 150(MPH or KNOTs don't remember)... Even if KNOTs that's only around 170MPH so agreed on poor matchup.
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What a sad thing. Lol
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<-----Blackhawk pilot
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Awesome! I'm just a simple private pilot here
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What an *** hat, poor ZR1 got left running.
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"Dramatic footage caught while filming an episode of Top Gear Korea, the South Korean adaption of the popular British television show, was released by the BBC over the weekend."

.....asian driver....
Kinda surprised the vette didn't wreck.
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Originally Posted by imma_stocker
"Dramatic footage caught while filming an episode of Top Gear Korea, the South Korean adaption of the popular British television show, was released by the BBC over the weekend."

.....asian driver....
Kinda surprised the vette didn't wreck.

That is so wong!
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