TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
- TheGreenGoblin
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
I do have a photograph of a tornado at Stapleford taken on final some months back...I will fish it out...
I was unaware of a tornado locally yesterday.
Looks like it hit up at the heli-maintenance shop.
I was unaware of a tornado locally yesterday.
Looks like it hit up at the heli-maintenance shop.
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
Yep, it was at Stapleford. Hit up at the heli-maintenance side. The chief pilot has just sent me security video of the tornado which hit the parked helicopters!
Rotor sailing...
Aerial shot...
Rotor sailing...
Aerial shot...
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
Pity we can't post MP4 here. The video shows the wind hitting the helicopters..
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
Just heard that the maintenance outfit lost 4 heli's of the 5 they had on the field, lost in that they have rotor damage... Insurance assessors are looking at them at the moment. At least one may be a right off it seems.
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
Write off . . .
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Merci...
English standards Timothy. A write off is effectively a "wrong" off I guess.
PS - Despite that fact that I think in Afrikaans doesn't mean to say that I didn't know the term. I do work in the insurance industry (albeit in a mathematical way) for God's sake...
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
News also claims they are "Aerospatiale helicopters", that company has long gone, they changed to Eurocopter and now Airbus.
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All semantics man, a company has been hit hard...
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
It's quite a long job in some cases to check whether they will every be flyable again. In other cases very obvious. We had an S61N in BAH which had been pranged at some time and was repaired - no doubt 'safely' - but never flew exactly straight again.
It's sad to see so much damage but good they were insured. I hope the insurers play fair.
It's sad to see so much damage but good they were insured. I hope the insurers play fair.
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Re: TGG hovering too low over Stapleford?
Before TGG gets in with the obvious.....
The helicopter pilots' mantra: If it hasn't gone wrong then it's just about to...
https://www.glenbervie-weather.org
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For once I have no musical answer to these magnificent musical reposts!
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