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Mark Allen M
PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:24 pm 
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Video of an Apache helicopter crash. Looks like Feb 6th of this year. Luckily from the artcile no one was hurt. Crazy!

http://defense.aol.com/2012/03/23/apach ... d%3D146336

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Strong safe helicopter there......

If you note the coning of the blades, he was coming downhill too fast..... Didn't have the lift to overcome the intertia and hit the ground. If the tailrotor didn't impact, he may have actually landed it. He had his chance to get out on the first pass. When he turned for the second half of the flyby, that was all she wrote.....

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'Here, hold my Red Bull and watch this...' good thing it wasn't an OH-58 or something built a lot lighter than the APACHE or it could have been much worse, and, of course. I know we all appreciate the networks putting their stupid logo banner right in the line of sight, I want to see the incident, not how the traffic is doing on a highway I never heard of along with a totally irrelevant weather crawl for whats coming to East Podunk-dummies!!

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I hear the gears and cogs of the UCMJ cranking up right there.

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I hear the gears and cogs of the UCMJ cranking up right there.


You got that right!!! This guy's career is... :toimonster:

Mudge the judge :shock:

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Did anyone else notice the soldier he almost crushed on the first impact?

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Chappie wrote:
Did anyone else notice the soldier he almost crushed on the first impact?

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Yeah, and the 6 or 7 folks in the group before impact and the group after. It sucks to realize you've miscalculated your air/ground ratio... :shock:

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