A Chinook taking a jeep for a ride

[eddiemoth]

Just for fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv3JdRhpznc&mode=related&search=

[markdeacon]

I love the sound these things make! Ive seen it done at a few air shows and the CH-47 is a amazing machine!

[Helinut]

This really takes me back. I had many rides in these in Vietnam 1970 to 1971. I was in 102mm Artillery Battery and moved all around the Northern part of South Vietnam. I remember one ride in particular when we were taking ground fire and the pilot had us up sideways in one to avoid getting shot up!

[eddiemoth]

Helinut, welcome to HeliTown and thanks for dropping by to tell us your experience in Vietnam. Do you have an RC Chinook?

[mtpenguin]

Heliproz has one, but everyone it too afraid to fly it!


B-)

[Helinut]

Hi Eddie, No I don't have a chinook but I've got an Esky Honey Bee King II. It's my first ever heli, and I'm learning a lot. I'm still a real new beginner and haven't got the hovering thing yet!:confused:lol

[G-MRM]

For anyone who did not see this in another post here in a model Chinook taking it's first flight my indoor club. It's in the last part of the video, it starts with the flying birds Eddie that you were asking about, next in the small Kyosho Minium planes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRfXmdbBeKg

I would love to see a real one taking off one day !!


Martin

[swatson144]

They used to be my favorite to ride from ship to ship (CH-46) I wouldn't ride a CH-53 but would wait 'til the next day and another ship had the duty. Hueys weren't usually available and weren't equiped to lower a person to a ship with no flight deck.

Only thing seemed to be if they weren't leaking they were out of fluid.

Steve

[basic]

i love the sounds those big dual rotor birds make. the chop chop chop sounds that is so charactoristic. Sometimes they will fly over around here and you can feel them before you see or hear them....it's amazing..

[swatson144]

Thwapp thwapp thwapp reminded me of on med cruise, while we were doing one of the resets on Moamar, the duty pilot was often a newb who was trying to rack up hrs. The same guy would fly us about every other flight. He'd like coast along kinda and realize he'd settled to a lower altitude Thwapp thwapp thwapp he'd pull about 100' of collective and start settling again Thwapp thwapp thwapp. It was like some kind of bizarre carnival ride. He became known to all the planners as "captain collective". Sometimes a landing was 3 bounces.lol. Occasionally he'd get you swinging on the wire so bad they'd have to winch you back up.

He got better after a couple months.

Steve