How unsafe does this look?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7493547.stm


...specifically when it starts to actually move away from the take off and go forward....


I would not want want to be the person who said "well, theres no reason why it shouldn't work, or fall off, yeah, lets do it"

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Thats brilliant. Imagine that flying over your house :cool:

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See, I had images of a huge game of "industrial conkers" in mind.

"My Sea King beat your 3-er"

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That was soooooooo cool.

I want one of those big birds now, we have a poorly Kwaka GTR 1000 to move and there is no way I am lifting it off the side stand!

:smt042

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Awesome. That is some skill by the chinook pilot!

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awesome!

love helicopters and would bite someones arm off for a chance to fly one!

Re: How unsafe does this look?
 

Standard way to move a downed helo when in remote areas. The Sea King would have been lightened a bit, engines may have been removed if they had been able to get a support truck into the area and would have had no fuel so would have been more or less just a frame.

Still awesome to watch in action though :)

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impressive machines i love um!

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Wow. Imagine landing the thing- where's the footage of that?!!

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I'm amazed by helicopters, just the physics involved is awesome, nevermind the mechanical genius that actually propels them.

Thankfully it wasnt anything like these, which I'm sure you've already seen:

Manic Panic (check out the guy on the floor on the slow mo replay refitting his genitals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3idQKi5EqM

Epic fail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHd5...eature=related

(I'm not posting these for a morbid laugh, but it does just go to show how wrong things can go, and how quickly. There were real people at risk just doing their jobs there.)