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Video: This guy is a good helicopter driver!!
Hope you haven't seen this before. A Lynx helicopter landing on a rolling ship at sea! Great piloting skills. (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thank you for posting this, it made me very proud as a Dane and a former ASW officer in the Royal Danish Navy. The ship he is landing on is the patrol vessel, HMS Ejnar Mikkelsen, named after a Danish polar scientist, its deplacement is 2050 tons, length 72 meters, width 14.6 meters and it is mainly deployed in the North Atlantic, and what you see behind the ship is most likely the Faroe Islands. Seen from the pilots view you can catch a glimpse of the Danish flag. I now work as a transplant surgeon in the US and have been in many helicopter landings atop of different hospitals, but nothing I have experienced beats this.
Nerves of steel combined with highly absorbent diapers. Nice piece of flying.
Nerves of steel , sure. But about diapers , not sure! Guys like him/her may not care much for undies ;-p
The lynx is the fastest helicopter on the planet; and is also the only helicopter capable of a true loop; many can backflip but its a party piece of the lynx.
Go to http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9492 and see a photo of the British Army version doing a loop.
Go to http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9492 and see a photo of the British Army version doing a loop.
There is no doubt that the Lynx is a great helicopter and the fastest "conventional" helicopter but its speed has been far surpassed by several "compound" helicopter models now. Also, a Sikorsky model did a true loop in 1949 and many others have done it since. Look up the Redbull BO-105 routine. It is truly unbelievable.
As far as this ship landing goes, the pilot did a great job while the Lynx and its systems allowed him to accomplish it. It was a limitations test to see if it could be done and the answer was yes but you wouldn't want to do it everyday.
As far as this ship landing goes, the pilot did a great job while the Lynx and its systems allowed him to accomplish it. It was a limitations test to see if it could be done and the answer was yes but you wouldn't want to do it everyday.
...or any night.
Interesting, because I worked at McDonnell Douglas at the Apache (AH-64) facility. Periodically the Army would approve an air show for the employees and that puppy did a loop! Couldn't believe my eyes.