thespaceinvader posted:

It's possible this is apocryphal, but I gather that in the Vietnam war, when troops were being extracted from jungles, they would use explosives to clear the jungle for the Hueys.

If the LZ they cleared was not quite big enough, the Huey would clear the LZ by itself, using its main rotor. Not full trees, I don't think, but I definitely heard that it would do light vegetation and branches.

thespaceinvader posted:

It's possible this is apocryphal, but I gather that in the Vietnam war, when troops were being extracted from jungles, they would use explosives to clear the jungle for the Hueys.

If the LZ they cleared was not quite big enough, the Huey would clear the LZ by itself, using its main rotor. Not full trees, I don't think, but I definitely heard that it would do light vegetation and branches.

ryonguy posted:

Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:

whats going on in this gif

thespaceinvader posted:

It's possible this is apocryphal, but I gather that in the Vietnam war, when troops were being extracted from jungles, they would use explosives to clear the jungle for the Hueys.

If the LZ they cleared was not quite big enough, the Huey would clear the LZ by itself, using its main rotor. Not full trees, I don't think, but I definitely heard that it would do light vegetation and branches.

Atticus_1354 posted:

It was generally not good practice but some pilots would do it in order to medivac guys because they felt the risk was worth it.

thespaceinvader posted:

It's possible this is apocryphal, but I gather that in the Vietnam war, when troops were being extracted from jungles, they would use explosives to clear the jungle for the Hueys.

If the LZ they cleared was not quite big enough, the Huey would clear the LZ by itself, using its main rotor. Not full trees, I don't think, but I definitely heard that it would do light vegetation and branches.

ryonguy posted:

Did you hear this from an uncle who was totally in the special forces but can't tell you anything about what he did there because state secrets man.

Pesticide20 posted:

I, too, remember the plot point from a not-so-great book.

It was one of the Jack Reacher books if anyone is curious.

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When they got to the coordinates, they realized there was no landing zone; tall bamboo covered the area where they were meant to set down. Baca and Liss decided that the lack of a landing zone wouldn’t slow them down: they decided to use the Huey’s rotor blades to slice through the bamboo canopy. “We were a lawnmower, basically,” recalls Baca. Fully aware that damage to the underside of the rotor blade could cripple their helicopter, the two carved out a landing zone and set down. They picked up six casualties and headed back to camp.

Factor Mystic posted:

I saw a documentary that interviewed all these dudes. Pretty amazing.

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The heavy, thudding noise of the main rotors - the characteristic wop-wop-wop sound - was caused by their huge size, 48 feet from tip to tip, and a 21-inch chord (width). With ballast weights at each blade tip, the whirling rotor system had tremendous inertia. The IP demonstrated this inertia with a trick that only a Huey could do. On the ground at normal rotor speed (330 rpm) he cut the power, picked the machine up to a four-foot hover, turned completely around, and set it back on the ground. Incredible! Any other helicopter would just sit there, not rising an inch, while the rotors slowed down. These big metal blades with the weights in the tips would serve me well in Vietnam. Their strength and inertia allowed them to chop small tree branches with ease.

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Sky King told me later that he didn't believe we were going to make it. The clearing was a tight circle cut out of a stand of saplings, and the grunts had put too many wounded on board for us to hover. To top it off, we were under continuous fire.

What I did was considered reckless. The solution was automatic. The ship lost rpm at a one-foot hover, I could not leave anyone behind - because men were dying - and we were surrounded by fifteen-foot bushes and saplings. But we were on a hill. My instincts told me that if I could get through the barrier, the ship could dive down the side of the hill and we could fly. So, while Sky King advised me that we would have to drop at least one man, I shook my head and headed for the thinnest section of the vegetable wall. Luckily, the rotors are so high above the ground that they had to cut only the thinner tops of the saplings. Our nose forced through the branches and leaves, the skids tugged on clinging things, and the rotors exploded into the stuff. It sounded like we were crashing. Men screamed in the back of the ship. But even as we struggled through the trees and leaves and bushes, the ground dropped beneath us. The rotors cleared the tops, and we dragged the fuselage through the list of the foliage. We burst out of the thicket in a swirl of debris - a turbine-powered brush cutter. I sailed down the side of the hill, picked up some airspeed, and then climbed out. Sky King said, "I don't loving believe it!"

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I hit the turn fast, banked hard over, and as we slipped toward the ground, I saw that I was going to hit some stuff anyway. The main rotor smashed some dead branches, sounding like machine-gun fire. I flared for the landing and we were down.

"Great. Now how are you going to get out?" said Sky King.

I didn't answer, because I didn't know how I was going to get out. The grunts grabbed the wounded man. He was unconscious, his fatigue blouse sopping with his blood. At that point I noticed the cameraman standing back filming the whole thing.. The grunts were prone beside him, laying out cover fire to ward the jungle. When I saw him aim the camera toward the cockpit, I sat a little straighter, and thought cool thoughts, in case those, too, might somehow be recorded. The crew chief called that we were ready, and the cameraman jumped on board.

In fact, there was no acceptable way to get out. There was not enough room to accelerate and bank back out through the slot. Some of the high branches hung over our rotor disk. By the book, we were trapped.

But I had seen rotor blades stand up to incredible stress before, so I decided to take the brute-force option. I picked up to the hover, turned the tail until it matched a slot in the overhanging branches, and then pulled the pitch. We climbed straight up twenty feet before the rotors smashed into cane-thick branches at nearly every point of their circle. It sounded like the rotors were being smashed to pieces. Seconds later we cleared the treetops and I nosed over, accelerating to ward the airstrip five miles away.

"Someday you're going to hit a branch that's just a little too big," Sky King said after a long quiet.
"What then?" I asked.
"Then your ship's going to come apart, and you're going to kill yourself and everybody around you."
"Now that's frightening," I said. "I think maybe I oughta quit this job and go home."

joat mon posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mE5stttVSI

HBomb posted:

I think it's from that YouTube channel that does the fake instructional videos that used to be funny but are now just OMG SO RANDOM.

uwaeve posted:

A helicopter cannot do this without accelerating forward:
http://youtu.be/u0N4nuBY2a4

Azhais posted:

http://i.imgur.com/UhCpIoJ.gifv MOMMYYYY! Mommy look what I found look what I found look what I found!!!!!!!!! Love you mommy

Fire Storm posted:

I remember on ER after Romano lost his arm, the helicopter pilot was not willing to take off because he couldn't tell if there was any damage to the helicopter.

Factor Mystic posted:

Well also something like that happened in real life: http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/helicopter-missions-vietnam-firefight-179939835/?no-ist


I saw a documentary that interviewed all these dudes. Pretty amazing.

Karate Bastard posted:

gently caress! How does anyone look at the latter and not think the former? Did they look at it and decide gently caress it that looks retardedda bitchtits we're now relocating this franchise to the Tom'n'Jerry universe, cause that's the Rob Liefeld of cinema right there. gently caress me right in the colostomy hole no wonder we're getting stupider by the generation feeding ourselves that poo poo.

ryonguy posted:

Whelp I'm wrong, cool stuff.


Goldeneye was the only good Dalton-era Bond, imho. However, that may be rose colored glasses as it was the first Bond I saw in theaters.

Azhais posted:

http://i.imgur.com/UhCpIoJ.gifv

ryonguy posted:

Whelp I'm wrong, cool stuff.


Goldeneye was the only good Dalton-era Bond, imho. However, that may be rose colored glasses as it was the first Bond I saw in theaters.

stubblyhead posted:

Dalton was only in Living Daylights and License to Kill, neither of which were all that great.

Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:

whats going on in this gif

HBomb posted:

I think it's from that YouTube channel that does the fake instructional videos that used to be funny but are now just OMG SO RANDOM.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Still better than most of Moore's run.

Azhais posted:

None of them have anything on Lazenby

Say Nothing posted:

Tetracube posted:

enigmahfc posted:

That last shot of him getting shot in the head is pretty loving funny.

edit: Not talking about that cat gif, but maybe someone shot at it too, I don't know.

Tetracube posted:

Mierenneuker posted:

I want those 3 minutes of my life back.

thespaceinvader posted:

It's possible this is apocryphal, but I gather that in the Vietnam war, when troops were being extracted from jungles, they would use explosives to clear the jungle for the Hueys.

If the LZ they cleared was not quite big enough, the Huey would clear the LZ by itself, using its main rotor. Not full trees, I don't think, but I definitely heard that it would do light vegetation and branches.

Karnegal posted:

Yeah I should have just taken this to heart and not bothered watching it.

Decrepus posted:

It made me laugh when the black guy showed up. Drawing black people is hard.

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He looks like a loving golem.

Rincewinds posted:

Death to american imperialists!