Korean Top Gear - AH1 Cobra

[Doc883]

Explain that to your insurance company
"A Top Gear race between a Corvette ZR1 supercar and an AH1 Cobra helicopter ended in tragedy when the pilot lost control of the aircraft and plummeted to the desert below"
http://cars.aol.co.uk/2013/02/11/top-ge ... on-camera/

[tut]

Real professional flying.

tut

[David]

another good angle

Watch on YouTube

[flyingscot68]

Helicopters - dodgy as a Findus Lasagne..............

[robin]

I am not convinced it was the helicopter to blame here - the laws of physics must be obeyed whether you're fixed wing or chopper ... what exactly was meant to be holding the chopper in the air while he made that turn - the blades are rotating in a plane approx 45 degree to the horizontal, possibly even steeper at the most banked over point. I know nothing about flying but there doesn't seem to be a source of lift at that point and gravity is going to take over

Glad nobody was hurt!

I'm sure Tut can tell us what went wrong

Cheers,
Robin

[Shug]

I'm sure Tut can tell us what went wrong

Cheers,
Robin

'Cos Lord knows, he's bent enough of em...

[tut]

Exactly right Robin, laws of physics are not to be beaten.

Massive loss of lift vertically when banked over like that, and he actually flew it into the ground. Pure pilot error, he got carried away by the competitive side of it and tried a manoeuvre that he could never have got away with at that height.

Fortunately he landed flat, and he picked one of the best helicopters to crash in, because of its role it is strengthened in critical areas, and the pilot has a lot of armoured plate around his body position.

tut

touché Shug, but I had the excuse that these nasty Adoo kept shooting at me with Sam 7's and 12.7mm Spargens.

[Peter]

Was that not last year sometime. I guess when the blades are perpendicular to the ground, gravity defeats lift...