One Of My Favorite "Made For TV Movies"

[billt]

http://www.youtube.com/user/billt460#p/f/102/xB0O1MKXF3k

This was one of my favorite made for TV movies starring Larry Hagman. "Deadly Encounter". It really shows an accurate Hughes 600 start up in the intro, and subsequent spool up of the turbine. The "Can in the bucket" trick was a bit of Hollywood, but it was a really good movie. There are bits of it floating around You Tube, but I haven't seen it on TV in a while. It has some super great flying sequences at the end.  Bill T.

[twyacht]

Thanks billt, that was kinda cool. Although I think Barbara Eden liked him better as "Master" in I Dream of Jeannie.

Those "chopper pilots" are amazing., the collective, feet, and stick all working at the same time, is amazing.

Great,.....Now I'm having "Airwolf" flashbacks,.....

[MikeBjerum]

I have never watched that one.  I'll need to keep my eyes open for it.

Thanks for the scene!

[billt]

I once watched my dad fly a Bell 222 out of a hanger. It was a real trip. He didn't lift the collective a half an inch to get off the wheels, and then just walked it out of the hanger we were in. I miss him, as well as his ability. We were once in a Rockwell Jet Commander flying from Wichita Kansas to Houston when I was in the right seat pouring a 7 Up when he rolled it and I didn't even know he was doing it until I looked out the windshield. He did it before Tom Cruise made it fashionable in Top Gun. I love flying. It puts life into a whole different perspective.  Bill T.

[tt11758]

I once watched my dad fly a Bell 222 out of a hanger. It was a real trip. He didn't lift the collective a half an inch to get off the wheels, and then just walked it out of the hanger we were in. I miss him, as well as his ability. We were once in a Rockwell Jet Commander flying from Wichita Kansas to Houston when I was in the right seat pouring a 7 Up when he rolled it and I didn't even know he was doing it until I looked out the windshield. He did it before Tom Cruise made it fashionable in Top Gun. I love flying. It puts life into a whole different perspective.  Bill T.

I remember about 30 years ago in my hometown, watching as a medical helicopter pilot lifted up about 6 inches above the street on which he had landed, rotated the rear of the ship 3/4 of a turn, and then backed UNDER a set of power lines that hung over the drive to a parking lot where he then landed, freeing up the street for another incoming medical helicopter.  After he climbed out of the bird I commented to him that I had never before seen anyone parallel park a helicopter.  He replied, "I was a med-evac pilot in Vietnam.  ANYTHING is easy to do when nobody's shooting at you!"

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[bryand71]

if you want to read a good book about helicopter pilots in Vietnam, I suggest you pick up a copy of "ChickenHawk", it's about a Huey Slick pilot and his tour in Southeast Asia. Very good read.

[deepwater]

when I worked oil field in the gulf of Mex we did crew changes by helicopter.
actually did an evacuation in the middle of a hurricane and I was very impressed by the pilots abilities. he didn't even touch the deck while we loaded up. the wind was blowing hard enough we had to run a safety line across the deck to walk (crawl) over to the helicopter

oil field.... it builds character! 

DW

[blackwolfe]

I remember about 30 years ago in my hometown, watching as a medical helicopter pilot lifted up about 6 inches above the street on which he had landed, rotated the rear of the ship 3/4 of a turn, and then backed UNDER a set of power lines that hung over the drive to a parking lot where he then landed, freeing up the street for another incoming medical helicopter.  After he climbed out of the bird I commented to him that I had never before seen anyone parallel park a helicopter.  He replied, "I was a med-evac pilot in Vietnam.  ANYTHING is easy to do when nobody's shooting at you!"

I remember reading a magazine acticle many years ago about some of the first medical helicopter pilots.  I think it was in Arizona and may have been a State Police program.  They talked about how many of the missions required trecherous take off and landings in narrow boxed canyon highways. and often at night.  It was the pilots call whether to abort the mission if they felt it was too dangerous.  Most of the pilots were ex Viet Nam combat pilots.  At the time the article was written, the only missions aborted had been aborted by pilots with no military experience.  One of the former military pilots was quoted as basically saying the same thing about how it's not difficult when you weren't being shot at.

if you want to read a good book about helicopter pilots in Vietnam, I suggest you pick up a copy of "ChickenHawk", it's about a Huey Slick pilot and his tour in Southeast Asia. Very good read.

   

That is a very good read.  I think there may have been a second book also by the same author.

[philw]

ahh the good old rotary wing's    beat the air in to submission to fly 


that is a very cool Vid Bill   




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLM-cpsEbIQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGu45s1_QPU&feature=fvw


RC 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t41avFuCc

[Rastus]

I once watched my dad fly a Bell 222 out of a hanger. ....

I saw one of those once offshore...but never flew on them.  Lot of time in 206's, A-stars, S-76's, Bell Rangers and long rangers.....and I like those Eurocopters they are nice...even a Hughes 500 a couple of times.  I probably have 2000 hours of flying but not flying in a chopper...dang.  Though some of the pilots in the 206's would lend me the stick in the co-pilot seat from time to time.  Those old Nam pilots were some great flyers...hammerhead stalls, no big deal, flying under catwalks...no  big deal.  Then one wanted to do a loop in a Ranger...said we could do it but we needed 6500 feet or so of altitude to come out of it to which I said he would not survive; he said sure it's not built for it but done right no problem...that's when he looked my way and saw it wasn't the chopper that was goin' to get him if he did it.  Flying under the fog 10-15 feet off the deck was cool...lifting off a helipad, flying backwards, then falling backwards 100' towards the water before swapping ends and pulling out of it...makes me want to go back out there....not.