Stealth Helicopters
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Stealth Helicopters
In my meanderings around French helicopters I came across the Eurocopter EC130 which is accounted to be one of the quietest helicopters on the civil register...
Which subject got me onto asking what were the quietest of the military helicopters and there is some interesting material around that question.
One such type as the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
The Quiet One - Air America Story
Which subject got me onto asking what were the quietest of the military helicopters and there is some interesting material around that question.
One such type as the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
The Quiet One - Air America Story
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Re: Stealth Helicopters
The quietest helicopters going are those that are AOG.
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Anyone remember Blue Thunder and its stealth mode?
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So stealthy that it passed me by completely.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:10 pmAnyone remember Blue Thunder and its stealth mode?
This example was so expensive (some 6 billions dollars were wazzed against the wall) and ineptly project managed, that the programme was canned!
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AirWolf was pretty quiet.
You couldn't hear it over the music when it flew.
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You couldn't hear it over the music when it flew.
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Poor old Jan-Michael Vincent, just as well that Airwolf was such smart technology, it is rumoured the Vincent acted in some of the episodes in the series, often totally gaffed out of his mind.
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Thanks for the link Pontius, I had guessed it was a film but hadn't looked it up. Interesting to read how they mocked up their aircraft.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:39 amTGG, in case you didn't look it up:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Th ... elicopter)
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Also interesting how real life follows fiction. In the film they would go into whisper mode and peak into bedroom windows. A police helicopter, a couple of years ago, Yorkshire I think, was used for voyeuristic purposes spying on back gardens.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/helicopter-sex-videos-film-naked-sunbathers-south-yorkshire-police-officer-jailed-guilty-adrian-a7882191.htmlA former police officer who used a helicopter to film people having sex and sunbathing naked has been jailed for a year.
A judge at Sheffield Crown Court sentenced Adrian Pogmore after he used a South Yorkshire Police helicopter to spy on people in their gardens.
Footage shot by the “sex-obessed” former officer included graphic scenes of a couple having sex in a range of positions on their suburban patio.
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Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:37 amAlso interesting how real life follows fiction. In the film they would go into whisper mode and peak into bedroom windows. A police helicopter, a couple of years ago, Yorkshire I think, was used for voyeuristic purposes spying on back gardens.
A former police officer who used a helicopter to film people having sex and sunbathing naked has been jailed for a year.
A judge at Sheffield Crown Court sentenced Adrian Pogmore after he used a South Yorkshire Police helicopter to spy on people in their gardens.
Footage shot by the “sex-obessed” former officer included graphic scenes of a couple having sex in a range of positions on their suburban patio.
Back in the the early 80's when TGG 'were but a lad', the ladies in the Tugwell university residence (Capetonian will probably remember it, colloquially known as Tampax Towers because of its shape) used to sun bath nude on the roof, and the helicopter training flights from the Ysterplaat air force base, decided to use Tugwell as a designated turning point on their training sorties. So popular had the building become that even Impala light jets got in on the act and the neighbours complained about the noise and the reason for the ad hoc VRP became apparent and an order came down from high, as did the nude women, and peace settled once more upon the neigbourhood!
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When inspecting 11kv power lines at about 40 ft AGL we would occasionally follow a line up rising ground and find a steamed up and rocking car just over the brow of the hill. They never heard us coming. A hand sometimes appeared and wiped a window as we passed by....
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Nor you them?
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At the helicopter's awesome coming, some came running, while others ran coming!
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Not Rotary but stealth, one pitch black night in the western Med, we were investigating a small radar contact, a Riser in the trade, and at one and a half miles we struck the searchlight. No ideas what the yacht crew thought. I think they may all have been below just running on automatic pilot.
As it happens other things were afoot too and we started dropping flame markers followed by noise generators. No ideas what the yacht crew thought in the middle of a Brocks benefit (Brocks made the noise generators).
As it happens other things were afoot too and we started dropping flame markers followed by noise generators. No ideas what the yacht crew thought in the middle of a Brocks benefit (Brocks made the noise generators).
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Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 9:52 amNot Rotary but stealth, one pitch black night in the western Med, we were investigating a small radar contact, a Riser in the trade, and at one and a half miles we struck the searchlight. No ideas what the yacht crew thought. I think they may all have been below just running on automatic pilot.
As it happens other things were afoot too and we started dropping flame markers followed by noise generators. No ideas what the yacht crew thought in the middle of a Brocks benefit (Brocks made the noise generators).
Brocks, as in the fireworks manufacturer?
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TGG. That's the one. They had a joint contract with Hunting, they complained Hunting had stitched them up.
Hunting got paid on delivery of the body to Bricks. Brocks filled it but only got paid when the whole thing was proved to work even though the Hunting bit was as likely to be the failure cause.
Hunting got paid on delivery of the body to Bricks. Brocks filled it but only got paid when the whole thing was proved to work even though the Hunting bit was as likely to be the failure cause.
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Probably still a good deal for Brocks despite the Hunting contingency. I wrote a Materials Requirements Planning program for another fireworks manufacturer in RPGII for the IBM System 36 many years ago. Almost the whole of their annual production cycle was focused on the 5th of November. Very odd business. Having a good contract with the MOD etc. would have been manna from heaven for them.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 10:45 amTGG. That's the one. They had a joint contract with Hunting, they complained Hunting had stitched them up.
Hunting got paid on delivery of the body to Bricks. Brocks filled it but only got paid when the whole thing was proved to work even though the Hunting bit was as likely to be the failure cause.
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"To be alive
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The Black Hornet maa bonnie lad...
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Impressive!