#30

The type where the pilot is a businessman, sports star or a celebrity?

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#31

Gyrocopter? They have very high failure rates.

I did a helicopter piloting lesson a few years back - very difficult to control. They are rigid/have zero suspension so the idea is that you land them as softly as possible. Not me, just flew it pretty much straight into the ground :sunglasses:

#32

No it was a little one but not as small as that

#33

Went in helicopters a couple of times as an air cadet (nerrrrrds.jpg), they are loud, bumpy, rattly, and (air force ones at least) fucking cold. I mean, the ones I went in were at least 30 years old. They were these, I sat by the door like it was a Bugsy Malone version of Apocalypse Now.

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#34

I take it this didn’t happen to you?

I know it’s not funny and would be awful but this does make me laugh.

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#36

Almost as funny as when that woman got dropped into the sea and died

[small] I’m sorry [/small]

#37

Like that scene in Deep Blue Sea

#38
#39

Knew it felt familiar

#40

Only found it while looking for this. You couldn’t pay me to get in a helicopter.

#41

You have just got married, congratulations! As a beautiful wedding gift you have been given an hour flight in a helicopter over your favourite part of the world where your perfect wedding took place. Champagne throughout. As you are about to board you hear the pilot say to their co-pilot “odd, but it seems fine now”

  • lets do this!
  • No I’m scared

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#42

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#43

I have done this and I enjoyed it. Unlike many natural wonders, the Grand Canyon exceeded my expectations.

#44

I thought it was boring and just a big expanses of rock

Different strokes :woman_shrugging:

#45

Yes definitely. I was pretty underwhelmed by Vegas itself to be honest. Other than the free drinks while gambling, it seemed like a weirdly sanitised version of the debauchery I was expecting.

#46

Westland Wessex? I think?

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#47

Its a Sea king isn’t it?

#48

I went up in one years ago (a balloon not helicopter), it was great (and I am not a great flyer, get airsick quite often) . As it goes with the wind it is completely still up there, it rises like a very smooth elevator. It would have been even better over the Serengeti or Grand Canyon, as it was a grey overcast Doncaster Racecourse and surrounding vistas had to suffice!

#49

It is indeed a Westland Wessex (a license-built Sikorsky H-34)! Sea Kings @Richie_Ronco are a bigger, newer SAR helicopter

Turns out I have actually been in a Sea King as well, just remembered on looking at a picture