Cal
Aug 29, 2004, 12:23 AM
This has NOTHING to do with beginning electric flight, but I just had to share this with you guys.....
I live in LA, and there's this sanctioned AMA flying field in the San Fernando Valley near the Sepulveda Dam. So I decided to drop on by just to see what was going on.........It looked like a festival going on.......huge tents, huge semi tractor trailers.......something big was happening.
Anyway, I found out it was a Heli-Fly in, and all the factory people were there showing off all their product and flying expertise...........and apparently, they had a bunch of the top factory pilots there from all over.......
There was about 8 guys on the line and all were doing some amazing stunts with their gas helis, but..........there was this one guy who did things that I didn't think was physically possible in this universe. The heli that he was piloting seemed to defy the laws of physics. It was a big machine......had to be about 5 feet long.............so here he was, just doing all the incredible stuff that everyone else was doing.......flying inverted, loops, crazy spin-overs, etc etc.......but then......he brought it right in front of him about 3 feet off the deck, stood it on it nose.......hovered there for a bit, and then...............in the nose down position, he accelerated from a dead stop to what seemed like 100mph in the blink of an eye, and then came to a dead stop all within about 10 feet.....and then he did it backwards and then forwards again.................I don't know if I'm explaining this or if you guys have ever seen something like this, but I was dumbfounded.............Like I said, it seemed to defy the laws of physics...........to accelerate that fast from a standstill, and then come to a dead stop within a matter of feet. And the weird part is that it didn't slow down to a stop. It just........stopped......like it hit an invisible wall. He did this back and forth within a 10 to 15 foot range. It didn't look real. It looked animated.............Simply amazing !!!
I live in LA, and there's this sanctioned AMA flying field in the San Fernando Valley near the Sepulveda Dam. So I decided to drop on by just to see what was going on.........It looked like a festival going on.......huge tents, huge semi tractor trailers.......something big was happening.
Anyway, I found out it was a Heli-Fly in, and all the factory people were there showing off all their product and flying expertise...........and apparently, they had a bunch of the top factory pilots there from all over.......
There was about 8 guys on the line and all were doing some amazing stunts with their gas helis, but..........there was this one guy who did things that I didn't think was physically possible in this universe. The heli that he was piloting seemed to defy the laws of physics. It was a big machine......had to be about 5 feet long.............so here he was, just doing all the incredible stuff that everyone else was doing.......flying inverted, loops, crazy spin-overs, etc etc.......but then......he brought it right in front of him about 3 feet off the deck, stood it on it nose.......hovered there for a bit, and then...............in the nose down position, he accelerated from a dead stop to what seemed like 100mph in the blink of an eye, and then came to a dead stop all within about 10 feet.....and then he did it backwards and then forwards again.................I don't know if I'm explaining this or if you guys have ever seen something like this, but I was dumbfounded.............Like I said, it seemed to defy the laws of physics...........to accelerate that fast from a standstill, and then come to a dead stop within a matter of feet. And the weird part is that it didn't slow down to a stop. It just........stopped......like it hit an invisible wall. He did this back and forth within a 10 to 15 foot range. It didn't look real. It looked animated.............Simply amazing !!!